I am adding a button in an existing Excel file. I noticed that the existing buttons has the EMBED formula specified to it. What does the function mean?
=EMBED("Forms.CommandButton.1","")
Honestly there really is not much documentation available on this "function". It is one of those things which are exposed unnecessarily when it really shouldn't have been. We are not supposed to enter this manually.
When you select a CommandButton and place it in Excel, you will see
=EMBED("Forms.CommandButton.1","")
in the Formula Bar. This text is necessary and should not be deleted. It is Excel's way of telling itself that an object has been inserted.
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I have emulated a hamburger menu (implemented as a textbox) that triggers a dropdown with various options that I want to display various tabs of an Excel workbook (though the specific purpose of the textbox is not relevant to my question). Is it possible to show the same textbox object (or any other object) with the same name and calling the same macros/vba code? I would like to avoid having to write a separate [tbName]_click, etc. event handlers for the each tab where I want it to appear (and will eventually want to have the hamburger menu displayed on various pages dynamically -- but that's a subject for another day).
Thx...
D.
The code for the hamburger menu (for which I already have working code) is implemented as a textbox ,but could be ANY object that triggers a macro when clicked. I don't think posting that code would be helpful. I have not yet begun witing code to place the copies of the object on different tabs. Before I begin writing that code, I was simply hoping for guidance on an APPROACH.-- not so much the code to do so as much as either a verbal description or even simple pseudocode showing how to copy the object from a source tab to a new or different target tab. That, and whether the object, after being copied to the target tab, can have the same name and trigger the same macro. There are other behaviors I want the object to display, but I can figure those out myself, and there's no need to bring them up here.
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'm trying to find a way to make Google Spreadsheet wrap a link, and showing the content in many lines, just like microsoft excel works:
I've found nothing so far on how to implement this, which should be used very often I believe.
Here's how the same excel works imported to Google Spreadsheet:
In the google spreadsheet I selected "Wrap text" but it only wraps it, hiding the overflow of it, however I can't see the whole link.
Any help is greately appreciated.
If you don't mind modifying the contents of the cell in order to display wrapped text, you could use an additional column with a formula like this to insert spaces after certain characters so that the url can wrap:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(B1,"&","& "),"/","/ "),"?","? "),"#","# ")
You should keep the original URL around though, since the resulting value will no longer be a valid URL.
Google Spreadsheets only wraps text where there is white space or hyphens. It will not wrap in the middle of a word the way Excel does. There's no way around this I'm afraid.
For ms Excel 2007.
I want the user to fill all cells in a row IF any one cell of that row is filled.
I am using ms-Excel 2007.
The only way I can think of to do this is by using a form. The form would have to be the only way that the user can enter data (you protect the worksheet and the form code "unprotects" it), then when the user fills out the form you check the fields for errors (not just omissions, but things like "that is not a valid date", etc).
To see what I mean, you can see a form at work for data entry in this tutorial. Maybe that's all you need, although there's not really solid data validation built in. But it will get you started.
Once you see how that works, you can try to design your own form that replicates the functionality of this one, but that includes error trapping. This involves opening the VBA editor (<Alt-F11>), inserting a user form, adding fields and buttons, and writing some code that is run when the "OK" button is clicked.
Not saying this is an easy thing to implement (I am guessing from the question that you may be new at this), but give it a shot. When you get stuck - post an update to your question or leave a comment.
I have a sheet in excel that is basically like a database (yes it has to be in excel unfortunately) and I want to design a simple form to display the records (the different column values in the rows). Usually MS is good with making widgets to do this but I cant seem to figure out how to write it in VBA (easily)
Basically I have a list of Names and ID#'s then some other columns that need to be filled in (address, order # etc) but I'd like the user to do this via a form rather than typing in excel. I created a small form in VBA, but now I cant link the columns to the textboxes in the form.
Anyone know of any code I can plug and play to do this.
Specifically I am using a ComboBox (for the list of names) and then a for loop searching through it to find the selection and updating data. But its a real pain.
plus I cant figure out how to put in a 'Next' button, which is really annoying me. Does anyone know how to change the comboBox value to the next row, if it is linked via RowSource
Have you considered the Form feature? You can find under the commands you can add to your QuickAccess toolbar.
Check this helpful tutorial for additional details.