I am trying to generate a combo box on a worksheet without using VBA. I am very familiar with the process through VBA, but I would like this workbook to be maintained by users with no VBA experience. I know there is a way to generate and fill a combo box without VBA but it has been eon's since I have used it. Any refresher guidance would be appreciated.
You are thinking of Data Validation.
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I have an Excel file that opens up with a Macro tab with a code that doesn't seem to be VBA. When enabling the macros warning in excel it formats the file as per the macro.
What type of code is this? Does anyone know where I can get more information how how to code this type of macros?
See below what this the code for this macro looks like:
It's an old Excel 4 macro, from before there was a VBA editor. It is still supported in the latest excel versions - right-click on the "sheet tabs" in an excel workbook, hit "insert", and one of the options in the dialog is to insert an MS Excel 4.0 Macro. Select that, and it will insert a sheet that looks like a worksheet, but allows macros like this.
Some useful links on migrating them:
Working with Excel 4.0 Macros
And:
Migrating Excel 4 Macros to VBA
If you want to try to work with the Excel 4 macro, you can get a help file (from Microsoft) Here.
Wow. This takes me back. It's the pre-1997 way of coding macros, before Microsoft Excel 19971.
Lotus 1-2-3 pioneered it. Are you sure the workbook didn't begin life as a 1-2-3 spreadsheet?
Naturally you ought to attempt to port such stuff to newer technologies despite Excel still supporting in-worksheet macros.
There are a few conversion tools dotted around the internet. See http://www.xlhelp.com/Excel/Lotus.htm for example.
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What is the difference between Change, AfterUpdate, and BeforeUpdate events for Combobox in Word VBA?
I'm having difficulties in finding documentation for control events in Word VBA (I only found documentation for Access VBA and VB.NET, I don't know if they behave in the same way)
This information is in the Language Reference for MS Forms ("User forms") for Office VBA, rather than in the Help for individual Office applications, which is why you may have had difficulty finding it. For example:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/gg264307.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/gg264215.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/gg264715.aspx
I wrote a simple UDF in Excel VBA. I saved it as an Add-in and imported it in so that I can use the function like any other excel function. But whenever I open an Excel workbook and subsequently VBA window to create a macro, the module I wrote is displayed in the Project Explorer window and its code in the coding window.
Is there any way I can hide or not display every time I open VBA?
Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks in advance!
I have an Excel sheet with Macros enabled. I want to display the Excel sheet inside a VB6/VB.NET form without excel menu header and perform excel activities inside the form.
Please note that I need to perform some macros actions when some cell is entered...
My Objective is to create a standalone VB6/VB.Net Form in which excel cells should be displayed for performing marco actions.
I have tried searching for any sample but no luck. It should be something like this...
Can any one hint me to achieve this ?
As far as I can tell - this is not possible. The reason being that you cannot subclass the excel window in VBA.
If you program outside of excel with VB.NET or VB6 it would be sort of possible, but would probably not work really good.
If you only want to display some data from a sheet and perform some small actions on them, you could probably read the Data via the EPPLUS Library, display them as a datatable (EPPLUS can convert between datatable and excel files), perform your actions and save them to the file afterwards. But this would only work in VB.net
I did a lot of research into this last year. There is no available package to do what you are asking that is provided by MS or for free, however, you could create a datagridview (DGV) in vb.net and load the data into the DGV via ADO.NET. The data loaded into the cells will mirror your spreadsheet. Then when you modify the cells in the DGV, have a label as you have shown to update the data changes back to the excel sheet.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7a1c828d-04ed-4a8d-927d-3649f29d2060/import-data-from-excel-sheet-into-datagridview
As far as calling the macro, use the excel interop feature to call a macro:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/2e33b8e5-c9fd-42a1-8d67-3d61d2cedc1c/how-to-call-excel-macros-programmatically-in-c
There may be some third party support for what you are doing, but of course it costs money:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/SpreadStudio/?gclid=CLKIy6TqwLkCFYZlOgodhToAZg
Am devoloping a windows form application which need to retreive a particular column from Excel sheet and i want to display that data in a dropdown menu.
As i am newbie to Visual Basic please explain end to end process with code.
Thanks,
Snehal
You will need to use Microsoft Office Interop. You can find an example at http://dotnetperls.com/excel
Also, this page at C-Sharp Corner might be exactly what you're looking for.