Hi Howard,

Create the field as a regular text field.

Place the field on the layout. Select the field. In field format in the
format menu change it to check box. Next to this in the field format options
box in will say <No Lists Defined>. Click the down arrow and choose Define
Value Lists . You will need to then define a value list so the system knows
what the Check mark represents. Just define a list called check mark, and
give it one value of Y. This can be actually anything you like - it could be
a full word that represents what you are checking for, or you could also
have made the field a number field and made your value 1.

Back on your layout you can resize the checkbox so that you can only see the
checkbox, and not the text next to it.

Caitlin