Tick / check all that apply.

This is about a questionnaire.
In BrE, you say "Please tick all that apply." In AmE, you say "Please check all that apply."
If it's a questionnaire to be filled in by various kinds of English-speaking people (such as pepole from the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand), how should I write?
How about "Please place a check mark to all that apply"?

Thank you.

Canadians understand and use both tick and check. If you want something universal how about mark? "Mark each box that applies" works for me.

'Please :tick: each box that applies.

Rover_KE said:

'Please :tick: each box that applies.

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That's a great idea:-D, but I'd like to express it with words.

probus said:

Canadians understand and use both tick and check. If you want something universal how about mark? "Mark each box that applies" works for me.

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I am not sure all Americans will understand "tick". I think "mark" is good choice.

MikeNewYork said:

I am not sure all Americans will understand "tick". I think "mark" is good choice.

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But some would mark it with an :cross:. Would that invalidate your questionnaire, pinkie?

Rover_KE said:

But some would mark it with an :cross:. Would that invalidate your questionnaire, pinkie?

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Technically, :cross: is a cross mark, not a check/tick mark. But if that happens, I guess we would regard it as the same as a check mark not to invalidate our questionnaire.

pinkie9 said:

Technically, :cross: is a cross mark, not a check/tick mark. But if that happens, I guess we would regard it as the same as a check mark not to invalidate our questionnaire.

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I'm not sure what you mean by 'technically'; in fact, I seldom am when anyone says it. ;-)

Written language is, I'm afraid, mediated widely through Windows. Windows has checkboxes and when you click them (to signify yes) Windows fills them in with a :cross:.

I don't see the need to resist Rover's suggestion. In a document that has to work in many languages and cultures, pictures are clearer than words.

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If the instructions are by the boxes they have to mark/check/tick, it will be clear to most people what you want. However, could you use a word and a graphic?

Is it a handwritten form or will they be completing it online?