Checklists are a great way of reminding yourself of what needs to be done. I use them all the time whether it’s to remind myself what I need to buy at the grocery store or the errands I need to run on the weekend.

Instead of writing your checklist down on a piece of paper, you can try creating one in Word and then printing it. Each item will even have a little box beside it that you can check off as you can see from my checklist below.

Creating a checklist requires you to complete a few different steps, the first one being to create a new table.

1. Open a new Word document.
2. From the Table menu, point to Insert and click Table.
3. Use the arrows to select 2 columns.
4. Use the arrows to select the number of rows. Each task or item you want to include in your checklist requires a separate table row.
5. Click OK.

Your next step will be to add the check boxes to your table. This procedure will be outlined in the Create a Checklist in Word 2002 (Part II), tomorrow.