I simply want to underline some text in a worksheet textbox using VBA, from a specific character to another. It should be extremely simple, and I can do it without problem with Bold and Italic.
I have the following sub
Sub ew()
Dim txt1 As Shape
Set txt1 = Sheet1.Shapes("txt_1")
txt1.TextFrame.Characters.Text = "Bold and Underline this"
txt1.TextFrame.Characters.Font.Bold = True
txt1.TextFrame.Characters.Font.Italic = True
txt1.TextFrame.Characters.Font.Underline = True
End Sub
The code fails on the last line, which is extremely strange because it worked for the 2 previous lines. the error (1004) says something like "Impossible to define the Underline function of the Font property".
To recreate the problem, take my sub to a new Excel document and create a textbox named "txt_1", that's all you need to run it.
If anyone has any idea why it fails, please help!
You need to define the Underline style. Taking your last line
txt1.TextFrame.Characters.Font.Underline = xlUnderlineStyleSingle
Use TextFrame2 for underline
txt1.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.UnderlineStyle = msoUnderlineSingleLine
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In the following code I am trying to look for a text box in an open word document. Once that text box has been found I would also like to check to make sure the correct text is inside. This is the code that does not work and I could not figure out why.
Dim i as Integer
for i = 1 to Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes.Count
if Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes(i).Name = "Text Box 2" and _
instr(Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes(i).TextFrame.TextRange.Text, "[Grab your reader") then
` Execute
end if
next i
Now if I replace the and with another if statement it works.
Dim i as Integer
for i = 1 to Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes.Count
if Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes(i).Name = "Text Box 2" then
if instr(Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes(i).TextFrame.TextRange.Text, "[Grab your reader") then
` Execute
end if
end if
next i
From what I understand the and should work exactly the same as adding a new if statement. If anyone could tell me why this happens that would be great.
Is there a way to get the selected text or highlighted text only from the Active Control? Active Control doesn't have .SelectedText option, so I used .Text
Example in the image.
I only highlighted "Rus" from the EnhacedTextBox.
ActiveControl.Text contains "Russia".
How do I get the SelectedText "Rus" to be set in Clipboard.SetDataObject() for copying?
Thanks a lot for your opinions and suggestions.
Do you mean you want to get selected text of a textbox ? If so,you can use TextBox.SelectedText property.
I am not sure if you are looking for this but if no, then i assume you are generating multiple textboxes from code behind/during design time ? If so, then try the following code to get the active textbox :
Private Sub GetTheText()
If Me.ActiveControl.[GetType]() = GetType(TextBox) Then
Dim textBox As TextBox = CType(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox)
Dim mytext = textbox.SelectedText
End If
End Sub
Hope this helps you
m_strGetText = Me.m_udtNavigationController.TemplateKeyAss.PrimaryTask.ActiveControl.Text.ToString()
Dim trial As EnhancedTextBox = TryCast(Me.m_udtNavigationController.TemplateKeyAss.PrimaryTask.ActiveControl, EnhancedTextBox)
Dim trial2 As String = trial.SelectedText().ToString()
Solution from #jmcilhinney.
trial2 now contains the Rus selected text. Thanks.
I'm working on a VB.NET 4.5 project in VS2013.
I have a richtextbox on a form and when a button is clicked I need to toggle the BOLD setting on all instances of a specific string found in the richtextbox.
I put together some code based on this question.
Private Sub ToggleBold()
rtxtOutputText.SelectionStart = rtxtOutputText.Find("##$%", RichTextBoxFinds.None)
rtxtOutputText.SelectionFont = New Font(rtxtOutputText.Font, FontStyle.Bold)
End Sub
However when the toggle bold button is clicked it only bolds the first instance of the string "##$%".
How can I set all instances of the string to bold? There can also be several of them strung together ("##$%##$%##$%"), so each of those would need to be bolded too.
(I know I mentioned toggling bold, but I'll set up the toggle portion later, right now I'm just trying to get the bold on all instances working right...)
Just add a loop to it and use the RichTextBox.Find(String, Int32, RichTextBoxFinds) overload to specify from where to start looking. Look from the current index + 1 so that it doesn't return the same again.
You also ought to actually select the word as well, so that you're sure the bold applies to the current instance only and not the text around it.
Private Sub ToggleBold()
'Stop the control from redrawing itself while we process it.
rtxtOutputText.SuspendLayout()
Dim LookFor As String = "##$%"
Dim PreviousPosition As Integer = rtxtOutputText.SelectionStart
Dim PreviousSelection As Integer = rtxtOutputText.SelectionLength
Dim SelectionIndex As Integer = -1
Using BoldFont As New Font(rtxtOutputText.Font, FontStyle.Bold)
While True
SelectionIndex = rtxtOutputText.Find(LookFor, SelectionIndex + 1, RichTextBoxFinds.None)
If SelectionIndex < 0 Then Exit While 'No more matches found.
rtxtOutputText.SelectionStart = SelectionIndex
rtxtOutputText.SelectionLength = LookFor.Length
rtxtOutputText.SelectionFont = BoldFont
End While
End Using
'Allow the control to redraw itself again.
rtxtOutputText.ResumeLayout()
'Restore the previous selection.
rtxtOutputText.SelectionStart = PreviousPosition
rtxtOutputText.SelectionLength = PreviousSelection
End Sub
Credit to Plutonix for telling me to dispose the font.
I have a little strange question. I used to have few reports worked upon daily.
All these are in Excel and had a logo of the company in all the sheets of each file.
However, now the company name is changed and hence a new logo needs to be replaced in place of the existing. Wanted to check if this replacement can be done with VBA.
I tried with the application.shapes method. But, was confused to proceed further.
Try this....
Sub ChangePicture(strNewPath As String)
Dim oOld As Picture
Dim oNew As Picture
Set oOld = ActiveSheet.Pictures(1)
Set oNew = ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert(strNewPath)
oNew.Left = oOld.Left
oNew.Top = oOld.Top
oNew.Width = oOld.Width
oNew.Height = oOld.Height
oOld.Delete
End Sub
I'm trying to make a TextBox with syntax highlighting (for (HTML/CSS) in VB.NET 2008.
I figured that if I use RichTextBox.Find(), I can color specific text, but then I need to call RichTextBox.DeselectAll().
The problem is that the the cursor jumps to the beginning of the RTB.
I'm using WinForms.
Any ideas?
You can get and set the cursor position using the SelectionStart property.
Therefore, you can write,
Dim selStart As Integer = rtb.SelectionStart
'Do things
rtb.SelectionStart = selStart
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Public Class Form1
'Create a Html Keyword Regex
Dim htmlkeywords As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<html>|</html>|<head>|</head>|<meta|<p>|</p>|<div>|</div>") <----add as many terms as you like between the () don't forget the pipe symbol between each term in the Regex.
'Then in your Richtextbox textchanged event add this
Private Sub rtText_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles rtText.TextChanged
Dim selStart As Integer = rtText.SelectionStart
Do Until False
For Each keyWordMatch As Match In htmlkeywords.Matches(rtText.Text)
rtText.Select(keyWordMatch.Index, keyWordMatch.Length)
rtText.SelectionColor = Color.Purple
rtText.SelectionStart = rtText.Text.Length 'this puts the caret at the end
rtText.SelectionLength = 0 ' of the word
Next keyWordMatch
Exit Do
Loop
rtText.SelectionColor = Color.Black
rtText.SelectionStart = selStart ' this makes sure that if your caret is behind a word and you press enter to move a text down a line; the caret will stay in position on the next line that you start typing on. You can remove this code to see what I'm talking about
End Sub
rtText is my RichTextBox name. This will change the word you want to whatever color then change it back to black, which you can change which colors do what. Hope this helps!