Why you’d want to add the Developer tab The Developers tab gives you quick access to many of the advanced features available in Office applications.

If Developer tab in Microsoft Office is missing, you can add Developer tab in Word, Excel, etc. via Settings, Group Policy, Registry Editor.

These step-by-step instructions show you how to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365, and to use it to launch the Visual Basic Editor and access Visual Basic ...

In Word 2007, access to the macro dialogs has been changed and as installed, is not available. To make them available, you first have to add the developer shortcuts back into Word’s main menu.

Display the Developer tab to enable the checkbox feature (for Windows) Before you can even add a checkbox to your list, you have to enable the checkbox feature (and the tab menu it's housed within).

Add check boxes to Word Documents on Windows To add check boxes to your Word document on Windows, you’ll need to use the features in the Developer tab. This tab isn’t displayed by default.