I've little experience with VBA and Office applications.
My goal is to export data from an Excel sheet to another application. But before the export happens, I want a popup dialog or similar to appear when the user presses the "Export"-button, so he/she can review the data which will be ecxported. The reason for this is that the exported data is from various places in the sheet (or sheets), so a visual review is a good idea.
MsgBox is, of course, to small. And it's not meant for presenting lots of data.
What's a practical/elegant/effective/easy way of doing this? Ideally the popup window with the preview shoul have a "Go ahead"-button too, but this is not strictly necessary.
You have to open Visual Basic editor. On menu, choose "Insert" -> "User Form". Then you can create custom user forms with text fields, labels, check boxes, buttons etc. Here you can find basic informations.
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I've been trying to produce a form for the company I work at to automatically produce a specification with information inputted using excels form control drop down boxes and buttons. I have managed to produce the code that produces the required results but was just wondering if it is possible to make it so that the user can only choose from the drop down menus and press the buttons. I have seen that parts of the spreadsheet can be locked but I have struggled when trying to use this on all of my drop down boxes and buttons. I would also like to make it so the inputs (drop down boxes) are within another window maybe? Or if there is a way the inputs could pop up as a form outside of excel in order to make it look more professional. What the sheet looks like at the moment is below.
when I open my excel, macro command run automatically and show "welome".But i want to design it little bit.Is there any way i can change its colour size or text box. below my screen shot. [Its not utmost important but I love to know can i animated this text.]
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Are you just calling a standard msgbox in VBA? If so, instead of calling a msgbox, you can create an actual UserForm in Excel VBA. From there, place a label in the "box" and you can format the font in a variety of ways: colors, size, text font, etc.
You cannot do any "fun" animations as far as I know. But you can definitely change the font size and color!
Here is an example (I'm not the most creative person)
You do this under the VBA Project Explorer -> Insert -> Userform. From there you add Labels/Buttons/Whatever objects you would like, and resize the form if you so choose. Then in your module/macro, you call this form instead of using a msgbox.
As far as changing the color and size of the text, Yes, you need to create a UserForm and create the 'Welcome' screen as a custom form instead of using VBA's msgbox.
In VBA, right click on the workbook in the Project Explorer.
Select Insert->UserForm.
Design how you'd like the Welcome screen to display.
In ThisWorkbook's Workbook_Open() sub, put UserForm.Show() to display the custom welcome message when the workbook first opens.
As far as animating said text, Not really. There are some convoluted workarounds using an embedded webbrowser object in order to render a custom animated text javascript file. It is full of 'Potential Risk' notifications for the user and really doesn't look very good. Sorry to burst your bubble :).
I am curious whether I can get a properties window for cells select in Excel. With "properties window" I mean the same on the Developer interface uses for properties of entities in VBA. I use AutoCAD a lot and have gotten used to being able to see and edit all attributes of an entity through the properties window. It would be quite handy if I had all info of a cell available in Excel too.
The content is displayed in the Formula Bar. The formatting can be displayed by touching: Ctrl+1:
This is not a complete set of Properties. (Comments are displayed by mouseover,etc.)
This will be my first Add-In. Please bear with me.
The goal of my add-in application is to replicate a very tedious, repetitive work by a user. She tells me that she initiates her task by clicking in some sort of combo box or drop-down menu and typing several digits, followed by a click on the "Ok" button.
Question No. 1: What is the official name of that contraption (the one in mustard color) and how is it coded into an Excel cell?
I gather than Add-Ins are coded using something called "Object Model"? I have seen about 4 lines of such code.
Is there a statement like this?
ClickOnCell("E32");
That contraption is a filter.
If she always types the same number into the filter search then you could store the filter as a custom view in the sheet.
Due to the lack of responses, both here and in 2 Microsoft forums, I have decided that the answer is:
There is no way
Then again, with only 13 people reading the question, the chances of one of them knowing the answer are very low.
I would like to create a dialog box or message box in excel WITH custom button labels i.e. FIRST and SECOND. I would like for this box to open up when the file is first opened...and doesn't allow user access to the worksheet until they select either FIRST or SECOND.
I can make a form, but I would rather not add a form since this should be simple... I remember doing something very similar back in the VB6 days, but that has been sometime.
The MsgBox function does not support different names (than the given ones) for the buttons, and neither the InputBox method or function will allow you to change the button names.
You'll have to make a simple form.