Square for the check mark

[Alinaress]

How to make a little square for the check mark?

[MEB]

Hi Alinaress,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
I'm not sure I understood your question. If you want to simply draw a square, select the Rectangle Tool, press and hold ⇧ (shift) (to constrain its proportions to a square) then drag it on canvas to draw the square.

[Alinaress]

Hello :-)

Yes, I tried to do that and it works. The only thing is that I need it to be an empty square with no filled in color. How do I make just a frame of the square?

Thank you.

[fde101]

If you mean hollow square bullets to create a checklist, go to the Bullets & Numbers section under the Paragraph studio and there is a field there where the bullet character can be entered; there is a control to the right of that to pick from some of the typical ones.

[Alinaress]

1 minute ago, fde101 said:

If you mean hollow square bullets to create a checklist, go to the Bullets & Numbers section under the Paragraph studio and there is a field there where the bullet character can be entered; there is a control to the right of that to pick from some of the typical ones.

Yes! The only thing is that I need to squares to be in the table in each line :-) How would I do that?

[MEB]

Select the table or just the cells where you want to add the checkmark square then go to the Bullets and Numbering section in the Paragraph panel, set the Type to Bullet, then click the small arrow dropdown in the Text field and select White Square (make sure the caret is located before the >> symbol if you want to place the square on the left of the text). Clock the More button in front of the Text field if you want to use other symbol/square from fonts installed on your system).

[Alinaress]

How do I get rid of the bullet dots now? 

And how do I make White Squares bigger?

[MEB]

Delete the dot bullet before the >> symbol in the Text field (Paragraphs and Numbering section in the Paragraph panel) to remove the dots from the table. Regarding the size question - I have to check this one...

[Alinaress]

Is there any way I can use a Rectangle Tool and make it hollow? So I can have just a shape of the rectangle.

[MEB]

To draw a hollow square, select the Rectangle Tool, press and hold ⇧ (shift) (to constrain its proportions to a square) then drag the tool on canvas to draw it. With the Rectangle Tool still selected click the Fill colour well in the context toolbar and change the tab from Colour to None to remove the fill colour. You can adjust the stroke's width clicking the stroke's width button on the right of the stroke colour well (also on the context toolbar).

[fde101]

On the subject of the bullet size, since it is the only thing in those cells of the table, you can just select those cells and change the text size using the context toolbar.

[carl123]

12 hours ago, Alinaress said:

Is there any way I can use a Rectangle Tool and make it hollow? So I can have just a shape of the rectangle. 

If you use  rectangles they will not be part of the table so if you move or resize the table you will have to do the same for each rectangle.

If you use the Glyph Browser, you can select a font like Wingdings or Webdings that contain hollow rectangles as font characters that you can insert where needed in the table and just like normal font characters you can resize/colour them as needed.

Note: I am on Windows, not sure what fonts Mac users have as standard