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Excel® 2010 Power Programming with VBA
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Excel® 2010 Power Programming with VBA

by John Walkenbach
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1080 pages
23h 37m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 14: UserForm Examples

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using a UserForm for a simple menu

Selecting ranges from a UserForm

Using a UserForm as a splash screen

Changing the size of a UserForm while it's displayed

Zooming and scrolling a sheet from a UserForm

Understanding various techniques that involve a ListBox control

Using an external control

Using the MultiPage control

Animating a Label control

Creating a UserForm “Menu”

Sometimes, you might want to use a UserForm as a type of menu. In other words, the UserForm presents some options, and the user makes a choice. This section presents two ways to do this: using CommandButtons or using a ListBox.

cross_ref.eps Chapter 15 contains additional examples of more advanced UserForm techniques.

Using CommandButtons in a UserForm

Figure 14-1 shows an example of a UserForm that uses CommandButton controls as a simple menu. Setting up this sort of UserForm is easy, and the code behind the UserForm is straightforward. Each CommandButton has its own event-handler procedure. For example, the following procedure is executed when CommandButton1 is clicked:

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FIGURE 14-1: This dialog box uses CommandButtons as a menu.

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

Me.Hide

Call Macro1

Unload Me

End Sub

This procedure hides the UserForm, calls Macro1, and then ...

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