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Windows XP; Acrobat XI Pro (11.0.06); Excel 2007.
I created an Excel sheet (xlsx) that contains a checkbox at the beginning of each line. I can check these boxes in Excel.
When I create a PDF from it, the checkboxes are there, but I cannot check them. When I click on them, the checkbox gets selected, but no checkmark is put in it.
Is there anything I can do to make these checkboxes checkable?

Thank you for your replies.
I didn't know about the Form Wizard, but I am reading now through http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/accessibility/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat-xi-a ccessible-forms.pdf
The Excel sheet was generated from HTML, containing real form/checkbox entities. It appears (from the above doc) that labels are required with these checkboxes, which I have not used (just plain checkboxes).
I will do some additional testing and report back.
Thanks again!

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