When a workbook has many sheets such as 100, you can activate the sheet quickly by right-clicking the arrows on the bottom left and then a prompts shows up by lets you choose which sheet you want to select. However, I want to be able to reach this prompt without clicking and using just the keyboard. So I want to create a simple macro where I can quickly pull up this prompt by assigning to something like ctrl+g. However, I do not know how to do this in vba.
Build your replica Activate form: Insert a userform into your project. Set its caption to "Activate". Add a label to it that says "Activate:". Add a Listbox and two buttons. Label one button Ok and the other Cancel.
In the UserForm_Initialize sub of the userform, Loop through the names of your sheets and add them to the listbox....something like:
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim oSheet As Worksheet
For Each oSheet In Worksheets
ListBox1.AddItem oSheet.Name
Next
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Sheets(ListBox1.Text).Activate
Unload Me
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
Unload Me
End Sub
Now in the ThisWorkbook section of the VBA Project, add a sub to show your userform:
Private Sub ShowActivateForm()
UserForm1.Show
End Sub
Go back to Excel and click the Macros button on the developer tab. You should see a macro named ShowActivateForm. Select it and click Options to assign it your desired hotkey.
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Here is the situation:
I have several buttons in different worksheets (but in same workbook) and the only thing those buttons do is print the worksheet. So imagine 6 different worksheets that all have a print button that quickly selects the relevant information and sends it to the printer.
Here is what I want to accomplish:
I now want to have a single button that will effectively click on all of the six buttons at the same time. So instead of clicking on the six buttons to send every indivudual worksheet to the printer, I would click one button and all of the worksheets would be sent to the printer
I would thus need help with creating a macro that essentially clicks on other macro-buttons which is what I am struggling with.
Thank you for your help.
My situation in image
Call each subroutine from your main subroutine. Something like this as an example:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
MsgBox "Button 1"
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
MsgBox "Button 2"
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton3_Click()
MsgBox "Button 3"
End Sub
Private Sub Main()
CommandButton1_Click
CommandButton2_Click
CommandButton3_Click
End Sub
We have a userform that pops-up and remains on top of all applications.
Since users are always working on multiple workbooks and applications, I want a button on the userform. On clicking this button the users should be returned to the workbook from where the userform is activated.
Let's say the userform is activated from Book1. On clicking the button, users should be returned to book1.
I'm just an excel beginner. Any help will be appreciated
Something like this should work in the code for the userform:
Public wbSource As Workbook
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
wbSource.Activate
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Set wbSource = ThisWorkbook
End Sub
Is it possible to have multipe buttons, lets say 'Button 1' and 'Button 2' run the same VBA code but yield a different result based on the button that was pressed?
For instance when I press button 1 I want it to go to a website, load data and put it on to Sheet 1. But when I press button 2, it goes to the same site and loads it to Sheet 2.
I know I can have multiple instances of the same VBA code (with different names) however I am hoping to simplify the code and prevent it from being overly complicated.
If you are using a Forms button you can assign the same macro and use Application.Caller to return the name/id of the calling button.
Sub Test()
MsgBox Application.Caller & " was pressed"
End Sub
Create one sub to do the work and pass the sheetname as an argument to that sub. I did it with a string variable, but you can do it with a worksheet variable as well.
Sub Button1_Click()
LoadWebsiteToSheet "Sheet1"
End Sub
Sub Button2_Click()
LoadWebsiteToSheet "Sheet2"
End Sub
Sub LoadWebsiteToSheet(sName as String)
'... code to load website to Worksheets(sName)
End Sub
I was leaning more towards brettdj's solution as well
If you assign the same macro to many buttons, you will get different results based on the button name.
You could name the button to the sheet you wanted. Practice with this. Add several buttons and assign this code to them. Click each button to see what happens.
Sub GetButtonName()
Dim Btn As String
Btn = ActiveSheet.Shapes(Application.Caller).Name
MsgBox Btn
End Sub
I kept a userform control button in my worksheet to fire up a macro, which in turn shows a user form, In the form I wish to display the opened files in checkboxes(using the Workbooks collection).I wish to run a macro that performs action for the user selected files only.
So for the button in my worksheet, I have assigned the following macro
Private Sub Button2_Click()
Load MyForm
MyForm.Show
End Sub
At first I kept the below code in the module where my macro sub is there.Since it's not working, I right clicked on user form and selected view code and kept the below code there.But still it's showing the same static designed user form, not the dynamic.I kept breakpoint at both load Myform and MYform.Show() and I stepped through code.It never went into intialize or activate method at all.
Private Sub MyForm_Activate()
'for checking the whether this method is called or not I am trying to change caption
MyForm.LabelSelectFile.Caption = "dhfdfldkfldzjf;zdfkz;d"
Dim mymyWorkBook As Workbook
For Each mymyWorkBook In Workbooks
'code for creating checkbox based on the file name displayed by the workbook collection
Next mymyWorkBook
End Sub
I can't understand why that event is not getting triggered.Please help me to overcome this.Thanks in advance
Even though the name of the form is MyForm, you still need to use userform.
'~~> in your worksheet
Private Sub Button2_Click()
MyForm.Show
End Sub
'~~> In the userform code area
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
'~~> Your code here
End Sub
or
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
End Sub
The best is to always select the event from the drop down, rather than typing it
I'm trying to write a vba macro that can be called in edit-mode in PowerPoint 2007-2010.
I can easily add a Command Button to a presentation. However, this button can only be clicked to trigger the vba macro while in slideshow mode.
However, what I would like to do is have this button trigger the associated vba macro while in edit mode. Clicking on it in edit mode allows me to change its size etc, but it doesn't call the macro.
In Excel on the other hand, I get exactly the expected behaviour when I insert a button -> clicking on it calls the vba action.
So how can I create a button (or other element that acts the same way) that calls a vba macro during edit view in PowerPoint. The only way I can think of is using a ribbon action, however this is unpractical in this case, because the macro will modify a shape that is associated with the button and there might be several of these shapes per slide that should each have their own button.
The only way I can think of is using a ribbon action, however this is unpractical in this case, because the macro will modify a shape that is associated with the button and there might be several of these shapes per slide that should each have their own button.
Depending on what you're trying to do, a ribbon button that launches a macro might be quite practical. The macro could operate on the current selection (and test the current selection to ensure that it's something appropriate).
With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
' operate on the currently selected shapes
End with
just answer it a some where else also
it is possible to do so all you need is download this file
http://www.officeoneonline.com/eventgen/EventGen20.zip
install it
create a class module
paste this code
Option Explicit
Public WithEvents PPTEvent As Application
Private Sub Class_Initialize()
End Sub
Private Sub PPTEvent_WindowSelectionChange(ByVal Sel As Selection)
If Sel.Type = ppSelectionShapes Then
If Sel.ShapeRange.HasTextFrame Then
If Sel.ShapeRange.TextFrame.HasText Then
If Trim(Sel.ShapeRange.TextFrame.TextRange.Text) = "Text inside your shape" Then
Sel.Unselect
yoursub
End If
End If
End If
End If
End Sub
insert a new module
paste this code
Dim cPPTObject As New Class1
Dim TrapFlag As Boolean
Sub TrapEvents()
If TrapFlag = True Then
MsgBox "Already Working"
Exit Sub
End If
Set cPPTObject.PPTEvent = Application
TrapFlag = True
End Sub
Sub ReleaseTrap()
If TrapFlag = True Then
Set cPPTObject.PPTEvent = Nothing
Set cPPTObject = Nothing
TrapFlag = False
End If
End Sub
Sub yoursub()
MsgBox "Your Sub is working"
End Sub
Now run TrapEvents and whenver you will click shape with that text in it your sub will run
Credits to the person who wrote this http://www.officeoneonline.com/eventgen/eventgen.html