Just put a empty text box over the checkbox label, set the text box background to transparent, disable the text box, delete the text box label. If the text box is the foremost element it will not allow selecting the checkbox labels behind it but they will still show through because it is transparent. You can still select the check boxes themselves. In my case I have a 13 item list of check boxes and just put one blank text box over all 13 checkbox labels. It seems to work fine. It would be hard to do this if the checkboxes were all spread out. But for on or two locations it seems workable. (Access 365)