I am working on a Word template that has 5 text boxes on a user form (frmMain).
I have a validation routine for each text box, that checks if the correct format is used (i.e. date format in one text box, only allowing the use of numeric values in another, preventing all text boxes left empty and so on). One of my text boxes is called txtNumber.
As of now, one of the validation sub routine fires on txtNumber_Exit.
I also have a command button (cmdHelp) on the same user form that, when clicked, fires the sub routine that shows another user form (frmHelp) that contains a help text on how to use this template.
My problem is that when I click this command button (cmdHelp), the validation routine for the text box "txtNumber" fires. Hence I am stuck with a message (written by me) in a msgbox that says "Number can not be blank", and the frmHelp is not showing.
After this, none of my text boxes have the focus, but my cmdHelp button does.
So if I click the cmdHelp button now, the frmHelp is correctly showing.
But this is messing up the workflow, making the visual experience a bit fuzzy for the user, given the fact that the user gets unnecessary info on invalid input in the txtNumber text box, and that the user needs to click twice on the cmdHelp button.
How can I avoid this?
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I have an application whereby I have the behaviour of 2 groupboxes enable/disable based on the value in a combobox.
This combobox however the behaviour for the group boxes only works when I leave the field by tab or click, not when the text changes.
I have tried using the Leave, TextChanged, Validated Events and everytime I have to actually "Leave" the field for it to perform the enabled/disabled of the groupboxes and their subsequent controls.
I need it so that when they choose 1 of the 3 options it immediately changes and doesn't work when they leave the field but when they choose the correct word.
Any assistance would be great I'm tearing my hair out here.
I think you are looking for the event on your combo boxes
SelectedIndexChanged
To stop the user from leaving an invalid field use the event
Validating
set the e.cancel to True if the validation fails
I am using a VBA userform to randomly generate values to be sent into a Word document to provide random questions on various math topics (for my students).
This seems to work well except that when I exit the userform (me.hide) and the values are sent and focus is back in the document, the previous values are still briefly visible every time I move the mouse.
This only happens for an instant. The correctly sent values appear if there is no mouse (or window slider) activity taking place. If I view another application and do some activity there and then return to the Word document the display is fine as well.
The flipping of values is visually annoying. Has anyone out there encountered a similar issue?
To reproduce:
Create a Word document with an ActiveX Textbox and button. The button activates a userform which also contains a Textbox and a button to send the Textbox value back to the Textbox in the document.
In my case, when the button in the document is clicked the form opens and the value does get returned to the Word document, but when rolling the mouse or moving the slider at the edge of the window the previous value in the text box briefly flickers into view. Here is the code from the document button:
Private Sub cmdOk_Click()
ThisDocument.TextBox1.Value = TextBox1.Value
Me.Hide
End Sub
I am using Word 2016 and Windows 10.
I tried to use the "new" Word textboxes but I do not know how to communicate with them from a userform. It is so simple using the "old" text boxes.
ActiveX controls were designed for VBA UserForms. It's possible to insert them on the surface of a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, but they don't always behave optimally. Content controls (and the legacy form fields), on the other hand are designed for the surface of a Word document.
In order to write to a content control you can use code like this:
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("name").Item(1).Range.Text
Closer to what you're trying to do with identifying the content controls could be:
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle(TextBox1.Name).Item(1).Range.Text = TextBox1.Value
Why it's so complicated: The team that designed content controls wanted to avoid the problems people ran into with bookmarks and form fields, that a name could not be duplicated in a document. It's possible to give the same name to multiple content controls. So it's not possible to identify a content control using Document.ContentControls("name").
Instead, Document.SelectContentControlByTitle needs to be used, which returns an array of content controls. If there's only one (or if you want only one), then you can add on .Item([index]) to get the single content control directly.
Rather than type in a static name, you can query the UserForm's textbox control for its name, if that makes things easier for you.
I'm looking for a VBA script that will run whenever I click away from any of ActiveX textboxes in the document. Another alternative would be to have it run whenever I click on any textbox (without clicking away).
How can it be done without assigning subs to each textbox individually?
Double click on your textbox and it will bring up the default method for that textbox, which in my testing is Textbox1_Change(). This method will run every time you type anything into the textbox.
You see two dropdown boxes at the top of the vba editor. Drop down on the one on the right and you'll see all the other available methods for the textbox, one of which is LostFocus which I reckon will suit your purposes. Clicking on that creates a sub that will execute every time the textbox loses focus. See how you go with that. Cheers
I'm building on top of code that a previous developer has left me, and he left something that intrigued me quite a bit.
Basically on his menus, he has a TextBox to take in user input and a button next to it to submit the value of the TextBox (for example if the user wanted to select option 1, he would input 1 into the TextBox and click the button). However, the user could also press the Enter key while focusing the TextBox, and it would be treated as the submit button was clicked.
Now this is simple enough to do, but when I check the VB code behind the menu, there's no TextBox_Keydown(...) Handles TextBox.Keydown function anywhere, only the button click event. How is he doing this? He has several menus that are similar and I can't figure out how.
A standard dialog box, if not told to act otherwise, enter does default command button and escape does cancel. In VB look at the properties Default for the command button.
I discovered how he was doing it. He basically mapped the AcceptButton and CancelButton properties of the entire Windows Form to various button functions.
A Word 2010 document has an ActiveX label that displays some text. Is there any way to make the text selectable, or otherwise copy-able, from a user's point of view, so he can paste it somewhere else?
Use case: I give the form to someone, they fill it out and return it to me. The element in question is a Label which, when double clicked, produces UserForm1 which has a ListBox on it. Once one or more selections are made and the user presses OK on UserForm1, the Label in the Word doc gets updated. I then receive the form back, and want to right click the label, copy the text, and paste it into an email.
You can't, at least from an end-user's point of view. Let me explain.
I started out wanting to achieve this with a Label, but soon found I couldn't copy the text that was displayed there using conventional ctrl-c or right-click > copy.
So, I switched it up to a TextBox. This worked somewhat, and the data was displayed, though with one flaw: Word 2010 seems to put a bunch of unselectable space between the last line in the TextBox and the bottom of the TextBox, making most the contents hidden until you scrolled back up to the top of it.
Here's what it looked like:
Notice all the empty, unselectable space below the last item in the list?
The solution to my problem of 100% of the text not being displayed in the box was to use this line of code, which places the cursor at the top of the text after the values are placed in the TextBox:
ThisDocument.functionalComponentsTextBox.SelStart = 0
This basically simulates the user manually clicking in the TextBox and pressing the Up key until he reaches the top of the TextBox. With that, the selections from the ListBox are now stored in the TextBox, the contents of which can be copied and pasted wherever as part of our business processes.
Here's what it looks like after: a perfect match when compared to the properly-displayed Label approach! Added bonus: the text is selectable, and the TextBox is customizable so I removed the border from it... can't tell the difference!