General ⇒ tables with tick boxes

[72 GJ 08]

Hi,
I'm trying to configure a yes / no tick box questionaire using the tabular environment.
The problem I have is merely how to produce a uniformly sized tick box in the centre of both the 'yes' and 'no' columns.
Any help appreciated

[gmedina]

I'm not sure if this is what you need. Add in the preamble

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\usepackage{amssymb}

and then something like

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\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
  \hline
  {\bfseries Question} & {\bfseries Yes} & {\bfseries No}\\
  \hline\hline
  First question & $\square$ & $\square$\\
  \hline
\end{tabular}

[72 GJ 08]

Yes that's great, many thanks
I know that was a newbie question, but that's where I'm at just now.
I'd been struggling to find this sort of thing on the net.
Seems so simple when you know how

After I posted initially, I visited CTAN and downloaded the comprehensive symbol list, here : http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/sy ... ols-a4.pdf
and from there had deduced a very similar code layout:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

%\load BB ding symbol package
\usepackage{bbding}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\Large tickbox form\\
\vspace{10mm}
\normalsize
\begin{tabular}{l c c}
\textbf{Questions} & \textbf{Yes} & \textbf{No}\\ 
\textbf{Question 1:} & {\Square} & {\Square} \\
\textbf{Question 2:} & {\Square} & {\Square}\\
\textbf{Question 3:} & {\Square} & {\Square}\\
\textbf{Question 4:} & {\Square} & {\Square}\\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

[gmedina]

You can improve your code:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{bbding}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
  {\Large tickbox form}\\
  \vspace{10mm}
  \begin{tabular}{>{\bfseries}l c c}
    Questions & \textbf{Yes} & \textbf{No} \\ 
    Question 1: & \Square & \Square \\
    Question 2: & \Square & \Square \\
    Question 3: & \Square & \Square \\
    Question 4: & \Square & \Square \\
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

Remarks: 1) Use {\Large ...} so the change will affect only the expressions enclosed. (Now, in your example you don't need to restore the normalfont).
2)>{declaration} inserts declaration directly in front of the entry of the column. (In your example, since all the entries in the first column will be in boldface type, then you can make the declaration in the table format).

[72 GJ 08]

That's great, Thank you