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Hi,
![]() userform experts please advise. I am creating some userforms in word and it has a lot of command buttons, text boxes and labels I was wondering if there was a way for me to map this out on an excel sheet, Example attached So that when I change the values in excel , I can run a macro to update. Or I don't mind storing it in a word table - if that's a possibility I am pretty new to userforms, so I'm not sure, what I should do apart from manually set every property which will take forever. Advice very much appreciated. dan |
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The short answer is yes you can do this, with a couple of provisos, and it will be faster from Excel. The first is that you should have the names of the command buttons in the first column and not merely numbers.
Command Button Caption CommandButton1 Edit Text CommandButton2 Add Column CommandButton3 Delete Column CommandButton4 Delete Table CommandButton5 Font Resize The second is that I would only do this if the names changed frequently (otherwise it is better to name the buttons either directly or in code). That being the case, you could use the following macro (in an ordinary module) to call the userform and name the buttons. Code:
Option Explicit
Const strWorkbook As String = "C:\Path\Forums\buttons.xlsx" 'The workbook path
Const strSheet As String = "Sheet1" 'The name of the worksheet
Sub Example()
'Graham Mayor - www.gmayor.com
Dim oFrm As New UserForm1
Dim Arr() As Variant
Dim oCtrl As Control
Dim i As Long
Arr = xlFillArray(strWorkbook, strSheet)
With oFrm
For i = 0 To UBound(Arr, 2)
For Each oCtrl In .Controls
If oCtrl.Name = Arr(0, i) Then
oCtrl.Caption = Arr(1, i)
Exit For
End If
Next oCtrl
Next i
.Show
End With
lbl_Exit:
Set oCtrl = Nothing
Exit Sub
End Sub
Private Function xlFillArray(strWorkbook As String, _
strWorksheetName As String) As Variant
'Graham Mayor - www.gmayor.com
Dim RS As Object
Dim CN As Object
Dim iRows As Long
strWorksheetName = strWorksheetName & "$]"
Set CN = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
CN.Open ConnectionString:="Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & strWorkbook & ";" & _
"Extended Properties=""Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES"";"
Set RS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
RS.Open "SELECT * FROM [" & strWorksheetName, CN, 2, 1
With RS
.MoveLast
iRows = .RecordCount
.MoveFirst
End With
xlFillArray = RS.GetRows(iRows)
If RS.State = 1 Then RS.Close
Set RS = Nothing
If CN.State = 1 Then CN.Close
Set CN = Nothing
lbl_Exit:
Exit Function
End Function
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Graham,
Boss Respect!! thank you very much! I thought I would give it a shot as I am no coding expert, I wasn't too sure this could be done. But this helps me to plan and map my buttons, text boxes labels. The canvas is very small and it is in dire overpopulation status with all the buttons and labels - it becomes really difficult to move things around and edit. Assigning wrong captions to the wrong items etc They say every little helps, but every big help helps. This will help me so much. You really made my FRIDAY!! Thanks ever so much again for your code ![]() dan Last edited by dan88; 05-20-2016 at 09:03 AM. |
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Hi Graham,
with a little tweak, i have been able to get this to change the buttons on the Canvas. It will set the actual button names in the properties. Code:
Sub CanvasButtons()
'Graham Mayor - www.gmayor.com
Dim oFrm As New UserForm1
Dim Arr() As Variant
Dim oCtrl As Object
Dim i As Long
Arr = xlFillArray(strWorkbook, strSheet)
With ThisDocument.VBProject.vbComponents("UserForm1").Designer
For i = 0 To UBound(Arr, 2)
For Each oCtrl In .Controls
If oCtrl.Name = Arr(3, i) Then
oCtrl.Caption = Arr(4, i)
oCtrl.Height = 100
oCtrl.Width = 300
oCtrl.BackColor = RGB(0, 127, 127)
ElseIf oCtrl.Name = Arr(5, i) Then
oCtrl.Caption = Arr(6, i)
' I may add lots more ElseIfs :)
End If
Next oCtrl
Next i
'.Show
End With
lbl_Exit:
'Set oCtrl = Nothing
Exit Sub
End Sub
![]() Happy coding Sunday dan solved |
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