You can include checkboxes at any point in a report. There are two types of checkboxes, "comment" and "topic" checkboxes. "Comment" checkboxes differ from "topic" checkboxes in that comment checkboxes are added while entering your comments or are added to create templates, plus they are unique to the current comment itself. "Topic" checkboxes are inserted into topic layouts, they are not part of body of the comment itself; Topic checkboxes have a corresponding Checkbox Group, created using the Checkbox Group Manager.
To insert a checkbox, use either the menu sequence Edit ® Insert/Toggle Comment Checkbox, or click on the Insert Checkbox icon on the editor toolbar. Once the checkbox has been inserted, you can simply click on it with the mouse to toggle the state of the checkbox (i.e. checked or not checked).
The default checked state is a checkbox with a swish: þ and the unchecked state is an empty checkbox: ¨. Checkboxes are simply normal characters with special attributes; and as such, you can select whatever characters you would like to represent the checked and unchecked state. See the topic on Checkboxes Preference for information on selecting the characters to use.