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The Google Sheets checkbox is an interactive widget in a cell that can be checked or unchecked.
A checkbox in Google Sheets has a value TRUE when checked and FALSE when unchecked.
Checkboxes open up all sorts of opportunities to make your Sheets more interactive, which you’ll see further down this post. All the examples are also available in the free template linked at the bottom of this post.
In this post, we’ll look at how to mimic radio buttons with formulas and checkboxes in Google Sheets.
This formula method has one limitation: you have to uncheck the current selection before you can check a different one.
With true radio buttons, when you click any button it will unselect the other one for you. You don’t have to do the extra step of manually unselecting it first.
For that reason, I recommend using an Apps Script method to create true radio buttons in Google Sheets.
However, the formula method presented in this post is useful if you don’t have access to Apps Script or simply don’t want to add code to your project.
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In this post, you’ll learn how to create a Select All checkbox in Google Sheets, as shown in this image:
But before we look at that, did you know there’s already a quick way of selecting all checkboxes manually?
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The RANDBETWEEN function in Google Sheets is used to generate a random integer (whole number) between two values.
For example, this RANDBETWEEN formula generates a random number between 1 and 10:
=RANDBETWEEN(1,10)
The function will generate a new random number each time your Sheet changes.
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The RAND function in Google Sheets generates a random number between 0 and 1 and can be used as a random number generator in Google Sheets.
The RAND function outputs a decimal number between 0 and 1, for example, 0.2760773217.
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