Following on from my previous questions:
I have implemented a series of checkboxes with which users can hide/unhide ranges of data. This is great - it works. The problem is when the users go to print - the hidden data is hidden but the pages are still there but blank.
If the page breaks are left to their own devices then everything is fine - there are no blank sections. When manual page breaks are used then you can see where the data was.
I've tried everything to get rid of the blank areas.
Copying the ranges and recalculating the page breaks is a no-go as the page breaks take upwards of 2 minutes for a fairly small report.
So, how can I print only the ranges that aren't hidden?
Thanks, G.
Haven't tested it, but you could change the print range to only the visible cells:
Public Sub SetPrintRangeToVisible(ByRef ws As Excel.Worksheet)
ws.PageSetup.PrintArea = ws.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Address
End Sub
Excel, by default prints only visible cells. You wouldnt have to set the Print area to visible cells as previously suggested.
I suppose you have un-checked the Print Object option in all of the Check-boxes. And that area appears blank, when you print the sheet. If that is the case, read on:
I suggest writing a simple macro that hides the rows that contain the check boxes. Set the visible property of the check boxes to false. Print the sheet, and then return everything back to the original state.
Alternatively, you could just select the rows above the check boxes, then the entire area below the check boxes, and then set that as the PrintArea. That should solve the problem you are having.
Also, I may have wildly misunderstood the situation, in which case, I am sorry I wasted your time.
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I am trying to open multiple webpage tab from my selected cells. I would like to find the selected cell (based on the mouse) starting and ending row and column information for further use of vba macro.
Thanks in advance...
You can do this:
x = ActiveCell.Address
MsgBox (x)
but really, you should try to avoid using selection where possible. The reason for this is because users can (and I've found, will) click in to other spreadsheets as the code is running and so what you have intended as the selection, may no longer be the actual selection. It also affects the longevity of the code because it's much more difficult to fix if something breaks.
In Outlook 2010 I have a UserForm with a ListBox.
This ListBox has 4 columns where I show a list of attachments (the columns "File-Name", "File-Type", "File-Size" and "Target-Directory".
Unfortunately the ListBox is restricted in layout functionality, the user can not adjust the column width at runtime (so I have to specify the width of the columns by design).
Because the file path can be quiet long, I set the width of the last column to 999 Pt.
So my ListBox has a horizontal scrollbar.
I want to have the following layout changes to my ListBox:
Add column headers
Change the alignment of a column to right-aligned
Optional: allow the user to sort the list by any column
Optional: allow the user to sort change the width of any column
Optional: show a grid in the ListBox
For 1. I found some answers that this is very complicated and I should use static labels above the list instead.
This is not possible, because my ListBox can be scrolled horizontally.
Is the ListBox really so restricted or is #1 and #2 possible somehow?
I know that there are foreign components available, but I am not allowed to buy any component.
And my solution should work at my colleagues too, so they would also have to install these components.
I have been experimenting with possible solutions to your problem. I think I have taken the listbox approach as far as it will go so I will share what I have discovered.
I can find nothing on the web to suggest that anyone believes you can have listbox column headers without using property RowSource. To use RowSource, you set it to an Excel range.
I got Outlook to create an Excel workbook and to write some data to it. Unfortunately, I could not find any way of getting an Outlook user form to access an Excel range. The syntax for setting RowSource is:
ListBox1.RowSource = "Emails!A2:D20"
This is not the standard syntax for a range and I have failed to discover any method of extending it to include a workbook name.
Jonah_Hess describes an interesting approach in https://stackoverflow.com/a/43381634/973283. He has two list boxes. One is a one-line listbox that contains the headings and the other contains the data. The two listboxes are set to the same number of columns with the same widths. This gives an attractive appearance but if you scroll the data listbox, the headings listbox does not scroll with it. This is not really any different from placing labels above a single listbox.
I tried putting the headings and the data list boxes in a frame and scrolling the frame but could not get it to work. I have used frames with VB user forms but the functionality is very different so there are no lessons learnt that I could bring to a VBA user form. Perhaps someone more familiar with VBA frames could get this approach to work.
I gave up trying to get a solution in Outlook. An Excel macro can access Outlook data so I tried that approach.
I created a macro-enabled workbook. Within it, I have two forms both of which fill the screen to conceal the worksheet. The first form just says: “Please wait while I load data from Outlook”. I am not clear about the data on your form so I imported selected details from a folder full of junk emails which I wrote to a worksheet. I sized the columns for the list box to match those for the worksheet. The result was:
The text is a little small but I think it is readable. The listbox at the bottom allows me to select emails for different periods. Long ago I had problems with RowSource which meant I could change the values in the range but I could not change the size of the range. I have either managed to avoid that problem today or it was a bug that has been fixed.
You can see that the headings are displayed. The columns are a little wide but I consider them to be a reasonable first approximation. Options to change the widths would be easy to implement.
The changes you ask for:
Add column headers. Done
Change the alignment of a column to right-aligned. Possible but difficult. You would need to pad the text with an appropriate number of leading spaces.
Optional: allow the user to sort the list by any column. The data is in a worksheet so easy.
Optional: allow the user to change the width of any column. I have set the column widths at runtime to show it is possible.
Optional: show a grid in the ListBox. Not possible.
If the above is interesting, I could show you all my code and instruct you on creating the forms so you could duplicate my experiment. Alternately, I could just explain: how I imported the Outlook data to Excel, how I included the column headings and how I set the column widths.
I cannot find anything to suggest that anything better can be achieved with listboxes.
An alternative approach is to use a grid of labels. This can give an attractive appearance and one or more columns could be right-aligned. Using the Controls property of the user form, you can treat the grid as a two-dimensional array. I have used this technique long ago and found it attractive and not particularly difficult.
In order to set the alignment of a specific column to the right, trying the opposite way might help you:
Set TextAlign attribute of the listbox to "3-fmTextAlignRight".
Add spaces at the END of the each data in the column of sourcearray, which you want to align LEFT. The number of added spaces should be so large as to exceed the width of the column in which the data appears. You don't have to mind whether the number fits to the columnwidth (overflown spaces do no harm). You may prefer to use & String(30, " ") instead (30 is just for example) .
If added spaces seem to be wholly ignored (i.e. data appear right-aligned only), further add any single character (such as "_") at the end of the spaces.
This is a cosmetic solution, but works when seeing left-aligned figures is too annoying.
After doing the above, please be careful when selecting from the list (trimming the added spaces, keeping BoundColumn data intact, etc.).
This trick works for both Excel and Outlook (not sure for other applications).
Test result in Outlook VBA (...trailing 50 spaces are added to data in column 1 and 4.)
Hope this helps.
I have a set of data entries in the 2nd Worksheet of my Workbook, which are part of a list using Filters. Using VBA I have created a button that when clicked, opens a Userform which lets the user enter their desired data selection to be copied from the 2nd Worksheet to the 1st Worksheet. This is done by having the user checking 1 out of 8 possible OptionButtons and then having the user select 1 of 5 possible options from a ComboBox. All is well and every possible combination in the Userform inputs leads to the correct data being copied from the 2nd Worksheet in to the 1st Worksheet. However, after a successful copy, I am unable to scroll using my scroll wheel in my 1st Worksheet. The "square" moves in the scrollbar when scrolling with the scroll wheel, however the worksheet does not move.
The main differences between the two Worksheets are that in the 1st Worksheet, no filters are present and that the copied selection is always less data then the source data, however this isn't to big of a difference (source data in 2nd worksheet is about 300 rows, smallest copy possibility is around 12 rows). I've searched and tried the following solutions, with the accompanying results.
Unfreeze Panes; One solution suggested was to unfreeze panes as Excel would possibly freeze all rows after the copy. However, when checked there was no "Unfreeze" option, indicating that I had no frozen panes to begin with. Also, when I clicked any of the three "Freeze" options, thinking I would try to manually "Freeze" and then "Unfreeze" to resolve the issue, Excel would stop working, giving me the "Not Responding" in the title bar and needed to be shut down/restarted.
Select Objects; Another suggestion was that Excel would have the "Select Objects" checked in the "Find & Select" portion of the "Home" tab. When un-checking this, the issue should be resolved. However, it wasn't checked to begin with. Checking it and then un-checking it did not resolve the problem.
Switch Worksheets; When I manually click the 2nd Worksheet after a copy command and then click back to the 1st Worksheet, the problem is resolved and I can use the scroll wheel again. However, I intend to use this Workbook a lot and having to constantly click back and forth is going to be a pain. So this isn't really a solution, more of a work around.
Dragging; Another work around I have found is that clicking and then dragging the "square" in the scrollbar does move the worksheet around. However, this is again just a temporarily fix.
One more thing that may be useful to mention. In both Worksheet 1 & 2 I am using collapsible columns. Worksheet 2 also contains collapsible rows, where Worksheet 1 does not.
Okay, so on a whim I tried to enter the following 2 lines of code to the end of the sub
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Overview").Activate 'Activates the 2nd Worksheet
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Selection").Activate 'Activates the 1st Worksheet
This mimics the manually triggering of switching Worksheets. And it resolved the problem. Still don't understand why the problem occurred but it's solved anyway.
I had a similar issue and my initial workaround was to make the userForm modeless:
Sub addButton()
builderForm.Show (0)
End Sub
I wasn't a huge fan of leaving it modeless, so I ended up using your sheet toggling method like this:
Sub addButton()
builderForm.Show
Sheets("Cover").Activate
Sheets(Worksheets.count - 10).Activate
End Sub
I still don't fully understand why it is happening; it's almost like windows/excel loses track of which sheet is the active one while the userForm is running.
Thanks for your submission/answer!
This also happens when a worksheet has too many copied Conditional Formatting rules. Once I cleaned up my extra/duplicated rules, I could scroll again after copying a cell.
Found good info about copying/pasting with or without the Conditional Formats here https://superuser.com/questions/419287/how-to-copy-paste-without-conditional-formatting
I have a workbook which displays a little coloured box based on some input metrics from another worksheet within the workbook. I want to display these little coloured boxes in an additional worksheet in the workbook. Is there a way to copy a shape across worksheets so that the colour will still update with the metrics rather than using the code again for a separate worksheet?
I essentially want to display this textbox with the coloured boxes/arrows in another worksheet as well.
A pretty dirty way to do something like this would be the Indirect-Picture-Copy-Solution.
Asume the art is at Sheet1 B2:D8 then just input a picture in Sheet2 (the picture doesn't matter, just pick the first you can find)
While the Picture is selected input in the formula bar =Sheet1!B2:D8.
Hope that helps ;)
EDIT
For making it dynamically put in any module:
Public Function testing() As Range
Set testing = Range(Sheet1.Shapes("Dia 1").TopLeftCell, Sheet1.Shapes("Dia 1").BottomRightCell)
End Function
(Make sure to change the names to fit your workbook/sheet/shapes....-names)
Then define a name (I'll pick TETE for this example)
Refers to: =testing()
Then the picture-formula is: =TETE
Whenever the size or position changes, your picture fits to it... still not a good way to solve your problem (to my eye)
Funny fact: making the picture-formula directly to =testing() will just pop an error
I have a weird bug.
The below report is built from from a complex Excel Macro and below is a single page from the report output. The page is built from a range so the report is all in tables which is fine.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-A_d72xVQXtfmVQUFFHdmVvUUdldUpLT1dmRnk4bXowaDNtUWt0eE5yeE1mZHRKNEpyck0&usp=sharing
The problem I am having is that the table Excel has put into this particular page (and about 1-2 others), is that the "show/hide formatting marks" button (e.g. the backwards P at the top of word) also show and hides the table and anything in the table.
I can expand on this as much as needed and have provided a download link as the only way to really show it is for it to be seen by turning the formatting marks on and off. I have removed text on that sheet as some of it is sensitive.
Excel code being used to copy and paste is below. This code works fine for the other 100-200 pages.
Sheets(curr_sheet).Range(sp(0), sp(1)).Copy
oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Paste
any ideas?
I have found the answer thanks to #Tim Williams pointing me in the right direction.
It was because of the hidden text flag being set to true, I do not know how it got set to true as I can not find any reason for it to be.
Anyway if anyone else is looking this sloved my problem
oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.WholeStory'select everything
oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Font.Hidden = False'Turn hidden off for whole document