I'm having a problem with radio option buttons on a UserForm I have created in excel. When the UserForm is loaded it is defaulted to OptionButton1. If I toggle to OptionButton2 and then toggle back to OptionButton1 excel will be unresponsive and crash when I close the form. If I just toggle to OptionButton2 and close the form or don't toggle them at all, everything will be fine. It only happens if I toggle more than once in a given runtime. Also, the option buttons are on a frame on the userform if that makes any difference.
I have commented out ALL code that is triggered by events attached to the controls and it still happens. Also, the code works perfectly fine in the case that I only toggle the options once. It will crash simply by changing the option to 2 and back to 1 without executing any other code. I have another option button group on the form and I don't have any issues with that group. I can toggle them as many times as I want.
I'm not able to share my actual workbook and have been unsuccessful recreating the problem in an example workbook. I'm not sure what else I can provide that would be of use. If anyone has any suggestions based on my description of the problem, it would be greatly appreciated. I have run out of ideas.
Things I've tried:
Removing all code associated with the controls
Changing and removing the group name for the set of option buttons
deleting the option buttons and remaking them
changing the names of the option buttons
copying and pasting the existing working option buttons and renaming them
EDIT: I was able to save as on my original workbook and delete everything out except the working and broken option controls. Here is a link to the sample book which is a bare skeleton of my actual workbook:
Link to workbook example.
Even with everything gone, the problem still happens. If you open the userform, you can toggle between the "Option A" and "Option B" buttons, but if you try to toggle between "Option 1" and "Option 2" excel will crash when you close the form.
Your User-Form and /or controls are corrupt. In line with what Commitern suggested, instead of full export and recreation, try this:
1.Delete your faulty user form. in this case `Test`.
2.Save and close Excel.
3. Go to C:\Users\<<yourusername>>\AppData\Local\Temp\VBE
4. Here delete all the exd files.
5. Re-open workbook add new form, name it `Test` and all option buttons.
All works fine.
Remember if you try to add a new user form and rename it as the old one Test without saving the file, you will get error.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/244238
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is there some way to repair broken functionality in ms access, like recompiling the thing?
I have a button on a form that is supposed to run vba code when clicked. The button no longer works, after like a couple of months. Except for the button getting focus nothing happens. I have tried the compact and repair option in access with no luck. The code works fine btw. I have made a new random button somewhere else on the form and literally copy pasted the vba code from the on_click event of the broken button to the new one, and on the new button it works perfectly. No problems at all. The old one, however, nothing. No matter what I do. I deleted the vba code in the on_click event, saved, closed and opened access again, then reentered the code. Still nothing. I tried removing certain functionality from the button by removing line by line, trying to see if any one line is the issue. Nothing again, no errors are being displayed, I don't think the button even runs the vba code at all.
In case someone wants to look at the code:
Private Sub Befehl107_Click()
[NavigationSubform].Form![stoffe_abfrage subform].Form.FilterOn = False
[NavigationSubform].Form![stoffe_abfrage subform].Form.Requery
Me.FilterAlleLink = "Alle"
Me.FocusDummy.SetFocus
End Sub
The button basically turns off the filter on a subform, requeries the form, sets the value for a textbox on the local form, and then gives focus to another textfield. Nothing complex really. I have 3 more buttons of the same type on my form that manage different filters for the same subform with almost identical code, they all work fine. Just this one broke.
Again, the code works fine if I make a new button, but on the old one it does not do anything.
Obviously I can just replace the button, but that would be annoying if down the line there is other functionality referencing it etc. So I was wondering if anybody encountered a similar problem and has a solution. Given that I have only worked with access for like 2 months total and already have this issue I hope there is some way to repair this more quickly, since I am now assuming that this will happen more frequently. Not sure though, maybe someone with more experience knows if this is common.
Edit: I just checked if literally copy pasting the broken button itself works and yes. I copy paste the broken button somewhere else, then copy paste the vba code from the broken button to the copy, and the copy now works...
I am looking for a simple macro I could activate with a form control button that would clear all of the form control option buttons on my sheet.
I have lists of options for industrial part specifications, of which only one may be selected per section. However, once one is selected, the form control option button stays filled in. I previously circumvented this by using checkboxes, where if you click the box again it will remove the check mark. However once I learned that I was to create the form in such a way that only one option could be selected per section, (for ease of use in case a less computer minded person were to use it) it became clear that option buttons were the right way to go.
So I need a simple macro that I can activate with a button that will clear these option buttons all to blank, as if none were selected. I have looked and tried some strings of code, but none have worked so far. Perhaps I am missing something obvious or looking for the wrong thing, but I dont think I am.
I have checked the following pages and tried their code:
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/689865-how-clear-all-checkboxes-option-buttons-list-boxes-form-3.html
Re-setting all option buttons at once
http://www.excel-easy.com/vba/examples/option-buttons.html
I feel like this should be simple. A VBA macro code that will reset the FORM CONTROL Option Buttons to blank (which I believe is the false state?). No need to worry about having specific ranges to clear; one button to reset the sheet will do perfectly.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Cycle through the Shapes collection:
Sub Reset()
For Each vCtrl In ActiveSheet.Shapes
vCtrl.DrawingObject.Value = False
Next
End Sub
This is a distilled form of a problem I'm having with a real application. Under certain circumstances, the initialization/activation code of a userform might result in the form losing its ability to correctly process tabs and enters: rather than switching between controls, these keys are passed to the controls themselves (even if they have TabKeyBehavior set to False). The simplest way I've found to systematically reproduce the problem is by having this at activation time:
Private Sub Userform_Activate()
Application.DisplayDocumentInformationPanel = True
End Sub
which seemingly causes Excel to "half-steal" the focus from the userform, so to say: the userform remains focused but tab/enter processing fails. The problem immediately goes away by switching to some external app and getting back to Excel (pressing ALT+TAB twice, for instance.)
Steps to reproduce the problem:
Download tabnotworking.xlsm.
Open tabnotworking.xslm.
Enable macros.
Click on the "Launch UserForm1" button.
UserForm1 is displayed and the textboxes accept input from the user, but tab/enter does not work as expected.
Press ALT+TAB twice or click on some external app and get back to the form: now tab processing works OK.
Once tab/enter processing has been restored, further usage of the form, including relaunching it, seems to work OK (most of the time). To reliably reproduce the problem again, close the book and start from step 2.
There are numerous references on the Internet to problems with tab processing seemingly related to this one, but no actual solution. Any clue on what's happening and how it could be solved? Thank you,
I'm working on a workbook in Excel 2010 that someone else created (I don't know which version they were using) with a button in it that invokes a macro. There are a lot of macros defined, so I'm right-clicking on it to find out which one it calls, but the context menu doesn't appear. Instead, when I click off, the button gets larger. I can make this happen as many times in a row as I'd like. There is another button the same worksheet that has the same context menu problem, but instead of growing, the text shrinks each time. There is another button that functions normally when I do this.
Growing buttons in Excel is a fairly common issue, with several theories about why this happens, including the use of multiple monitors or using proportional fonts. I have yet to see a definitive answer about this, but there are several workarounds that may work for you.
Delete and re-create the buttons.
Programmatically set the height and width of the buttons when the workbook is opened and when a button is clicked.
Select the button with another object or two on the sheet and group them.
Don't use them at all.
My personal choice is #4. As an alternative to buttons, I either use hyperlinks or shapes with macros assigned to them.
I think you want to enter "Design Mode" in the work book:
You should be able to right-click on the button to see what it does after that.
I have this same issue. I have two Excel workbooks with similar buttons on each. This only happens on one of them, but it happens every time I open that file.
I have found a sort of work-around. I open a blank Excel document, then I open the affected one and the buttons do not change size any more. When I open the second one, I have to drag it into the window with the already-open file. If I double-click on it, it opens in a new window and the problem remains.
I have the same issue sometimes. In my case, I could replicate it 100% on one file but it was inconsistent on an virtually identical file. I also found the size error wasn't permanent -- I could save and reopen the file to restore the button's appearance. I could also create a new window and then discard the damaged window.
For me, the button resized when I accessed the sheet's HPageBreaks collection. I was able to avoid the problem by temporarily changing the window view as follows:
ActiveWindow.View = xlPageBreakPreview
' do pagination stuff using HPageBreaks
ActiveWindow.View = xlNormalView
I have a .doc with a command button (cmdStart) which opens a form.
After populating the form I click a button to close the form and populate the .doc.
I want to hide the initial cmdStart on the .doc as well when the form closes,
Ive tries document.shapes(1).visible=false and cmdStart.visible=false but none seems to work.
Any ideas?
thanks
(ps I cant just opne the form from the autonew, I need the cmdStart visible to begin with)
You have several options to deal with that. However, you won't be able to hide your command button but you will be able to remove it.
Removing a command button can be done by the following code:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
CommandButton1.Select
Selection.Delete
End Sub
(Note that usually you would be able to hide text in Word by setting the font hidden, e.g. by calling Selection.Font.Hidden. However, this does not affect controls.)
If you deleted the button and you need it later on again you will have to re-create it. In that case it might be a good idea to mark the position of the button with a bookmark.
Another option would be to use a MACRO button field. Such a field can be inserted from the Insert Field dialog and can be used to launch a macro.
If you really wanted to "hide" the button, you could set the Height and Width to 0.75 and it's virtually gone. Then resize back to "show". I've also seen people put them inside tags and hide the tag. Hope this helps