On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:

Hi!

I'm having two problems with checkboxes:

1. They're hard to navigate to.  I have a task with 4 checkboxed
  sub-items, and it's very fiddly getting my cursor in position to
  check them off.  Is there a trick for this?


From anywhere on the line/item containing the checkbox, C-c C-c toggles the checkbox.
 
2. When I have a repeating TODO item with checkbox dependencies, the
  boxes remain checked even when the TODO->DONE auto-rescheduling event
  happens.  Is there a way to get tehm unchecked?


Highlight the whole region (from first one, C-space, then navigate to last one) and do C-c C-x C-b to toggle them all (assuming that the first one is done and you want them all reset to undone).
--- http://orgmode.org/manual/Checkboxes.html
 
Do these help?


John

Many thanks in advance,

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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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