I'm struggling to find out how to programmatically enable the "Select objects" cursor type. I checked the object browser and expected to find a property like Application.CursorType or Application.DrawingMode.
Changing the cursor type isn't picked up in the macro recorder and I must be searching for the wrong terms as I can't find information about this anywhere.
Edit: I should've made it clear I'm not talking about the cursor appearance that can be set via Application.Cursor. Rather, I want to set the cursor into the same mode as can be set via the GUI by clicking the "Select objects" icon on the Drawing toolbar. This is the cursor that only allows selection of shapes and ignores cells, text and the formula bar.
Actually, I never knew the correct name for this cursor mode until I checked the tooltip to write this update, perhaps that'll help.
I don't quite follow why you want to do this, but you can toggle the "Select Objects" drawing mode programmatically by executing the built-in CommandBar control:
Call CommandBars("Drawing").Controls("Select Objects").Execute
And you can determine the current mode by checking its state:
If CommandBars("Drawing").Controls("Select Objects").State Then
Call Debug.Print("Select Object mode is on")
End If
Good luck!
I'm a little 'late to the party' on this one but here is the answer to 'why he wants to do this' as well as 'what he wants to do'.
'Turn ON 'Select Objects' option during initial display. While ON, cell input is prevented.
If CommandBars("Drawing").Controls("Select Objects").State = False Then
CommandBars("Drawing").Controls("Select Objects").Execute
End If
I use this in a simple timer application which has one command button and two check boxes on the 'ActiveSheet' display. By turning ON 'Select Objects', I limit the cursor input targets to these three items. Cells cannot be selected.
Cheers,
Lawrence
Would this link help?
Here's a synopsis:
Over the application, you have four choices:
xlDefault
xlWait
xlBeam
xlNorthwestArrow
You call it like:
Application.Cursor = xlDefault
Over forms, you have more choices. See the article for more.
I don't know what you mean with 'drawing mode'. However, if you want to change the appearance of your mouse cursor, the property you are looking for is Application.Cursor
You can set it to one of four predefined values: xlWait, xlNorthwestArrow, xlIBeam and xlDefault.
If you want to display other cursors, have a look this article on how to display a custom cursor in Access. Since it uses the WinAPI, the solution should work equally in Excel.
Edit:
In response to your edit: I don't think that it is possible to do what you want. The macro recorder doesn't pick it up because there is no VBA command that can do it.
Depending and what you are trying to achieve by switching to design mode, there may be other ways though.
If you want to keep the user from changing the data in your workbook, you can hide the complete Excel window using the Application.Visible property.
If you want to keep the user from selecting or changinganything, but still display the data, have a look at ActiveSheet.Protect or ActiveWorkbook.Protect, available under Tools - Protection.
If you want to move or resize some controls in your workbook, you can do that programmatically by changing the Left, Top, Height and Width property of the control, you don't need to switch to design mode in order to do this from your macro.
Related
Is it possible to somehow have way for the Selection.Style (and possibly other info) to always show up in a custom information window similar to the way Debug.Print prints in the immediate windows but ALWAYS visible?
I find myself struggling to quickly check a Selection.Style. MsgBox requires clicking "OK".
I have used the "Reveal Formatting" window but I would like more control over how the information displays.
Is this possible?
At least for knowing the Style at the current selection point, you don't need a custom user form. Place the StyleGalleryClassic control on the QAT or a Ribbon tab.
I'm trying to add an auto-complete function to some of the boxes on the first sheet that I have for entering data on an excel worksheet, but I can't figure out how so. Here's the link for the excel document. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ksoDGxry1tR2JGNnhoSEZuYU0/view?usp=sharing
I have read some of the articles here but I didn't really get how to apply them to my work.
There is a very handy guide for doing just that, but you need to rely on a mixture of VBA and form controls, specifically comboboxes. The initial method was outlined in a slightly revamped guide by Contextures.
This guide was later expanded into, what I felt, was a slightly easier and more robust method dubbed "the magical floating activeX control".
I hope you have luck with those two - but knowledge of VBA will help you get the most out of it. You have to customize their setup to match your data structures. I use this method to produce 'autocomplete' forms for users in my organization. So far, my one extension has been to make an 'on/off' button for this code, because it's method runs constantly, meaning that you lose the ability to do UNDO in excel while the lookup/autocomplete code is available to the user. I strongly advise setting up a button/feature that allows a user to disable it when not in use.
For enable/disable, here is the very-rough code that will do the job to ensure the code doesn't execute when you don't want it to. This disables the 'catch' that watches for the intial value change in the script from the links above.
If Application.EnableEvents = False Then
Application.EnableEvents = True
btn_Enable.ForeColor = 0
Else
Application.EnableEvents = False
btn_Enable.ForeColor = 35653
End If
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
Needing some help attaching an Excel/VBA button on an Excel sheet. I need it to stay in the same position on the screen regardless of how I scroll or zoom. Preferably, I need this on the bottom left or right of the screen.
I have tried adding a button. Then, I right clicked on the button. Clicked on Format Controls -> Properties -> selected Don't Move or Size With Cells. Am I missing something that's making this not work?
Thanks!
I know this post is old, but here's to anyone it could be useful. The VisibleRange property of ActiveWindow can solve this problem. Use something like this:
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
With ActiveSheet.OLEObjects("MY_BUTTON'S_NAME")
.Top = ActiveWindow.VisibleRange.Top + ActiveWindow.VisibleRange.Height - 5
.Left = ActiveWindow.VisibleRange.Left + ActiveWindow.VisibleRange.Width - .Width - 5
End With
End Sub
Here is the idea that I put across the comment earlier today :) Typically we can get a Floating User Form by setting the Modal property of the form to be 0 which is indeed a Modeless state.
Basic Points to consider:
Look & Feel of the form to make it look like a Button (Not show title bar/Not Resizable/
Hidden Close Button etc)
Setting the position of the Button
Which Event should trigger the form-button (WorkBook Open)
What would you do with Form Initialize Event
Whcih Events should keep it stick to the same position alive
Further Points to consider:
You might only want to keep this button vissible for the workbook you are working, and if you open another instance of a workbook, do you still want to keep the button
If you minimize the Excel Window instance, how do you plan to manage the state of the button and keep it visible
Post about keep displaying a form even the workbook is minimized.
One other great reference I happend to see, (little bit technical) but worth the shot - at least to get to know the certain properties/methods that you could make use: Extending VBA User Form Control.
The article include the following info, and please note the last line as well :)
They give you access to capabilities that are not available from VBA or from the objects (UserForms, Workbooks, etc.,) that make up a VBA Project. When you call an API, you are bypassing VBA and calling directly upon Windows. This means that you do not get the safety mechanisms such as type checking that VBA normally provides. If you pass an invalid value to an API or (a very common mistake) use a ByRef parameter instead of a ByVal parameter, you will most likely completely and immediately crash Excel and you will lose all your unsaved work. I recommend that until you are confident that your API calls are solid you save your work before calling an API function.
Add new Row on the beginning of your WorkSheet and set your button on it, then:
Freeze Top Row
Right click → properties → placement → change to 3.
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