Moving a square box freely

Question

I am using Pages for mac for the first time
I wanted to create a simple check list document for work with a comment on the left and a little square box on the right that i may tick
the text on the left is no problem obviously...but the little box is a nightmare.....i can make it...but to align it with the line of text, i have to use the X and Y or manually
type in a number to try get it into the right position. Isn't there a way i can grab the box and just drag it to where i want it?? and then copy and paste it down??
Thanks for any advice

Answer 1

1. There are are Unicode check box glyphs: ☐ □ ▫︎ ◻︎ ❏ ❐ ❑ ❒ ☑︎ ☒ you can copy these from here but they are in your Special Characters
2. You can click on the box edge, see the corner handles and copy, then click into the text where you want it and paste.
3. Once it is in the Text you can adjust its position relative to the text using baseline shift
4. To position it accurately horizontally make a tab on the ruler and position the box after a preceding tab
Peter