Comments on: How To: Assign a Macro to a Button or Shape http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/ PTS Excel Charts and Tutorials Blog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:01:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mei http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-12184 Mei Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:53:19 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-12184 Thanks Jon, will try it out and share any further problems if I encounter them. Cheers. Thanks Jon, will try it out and share any further problems if I encounter them.

Cheers.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-12183 Jon Peltier Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:23:25 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-12183 Could you use a regular button as opposed to a shape for this? I've heard that using buttons (use Forms toolbar buttons, which nominally work just like shapes) is more reliable than using shapes. Could you use a regular button as opposed to a shape for this? I’ve heard that using buttons (use Forms toolbar buttons, which nominally work just like shapes) is more reliable than using shapes.

]]> By: Mei http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-12179 Mei Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:59:59 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-12179 Hi Jon, Thank you for your reply. Indeed I am using Excel 2007, on a Vista OS. It's a simple macro to copy & paste by appending to a columnn of values. I assigned this macro to a shape that I drew somewhere on the worksheet. When I click the enabled shape, it works fine, however, the moment i move the shape to another part of the worksheet - even if it's near by, the macros become very unstable. They work some of the time, and fail altogether at others. It's quite strange. Many thanks. Mei. Hi Jon,
Thank you for your reply. Indeed I am using Excel 2007, on a Vista OS.

It’s a simple macro to copy & paste by appending to a columnn of values. I assigned this macro to a shape that I drew somewhere on the worksheet. When I click the enabled shape, it works fine, however, the moment i move the shape to another part of the worksheet – even if it’s near by, the macros become very unstable. They work some of the time, and fail altogether at others.

It’s quite strange.

Many thanks.
Mei.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-12161 Jon Peltier Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:45:39 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-12161 Mei - I have never experienced this problem exactly. What version of Excel are you using? There are a couple funny things about assigning macros to shapes in Excel 2007. If that's your version I would like to try to replicate the problem. Mei -

I have never experienced this problem exactly. What version of Excel are you using? There are a couple funny things about assigning macros to shapes in Excel 2007. If that’s your version I would like to try to replicate the problem.

]]> By: Mei http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-12157 Mei Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:46:25 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-12157 Hi Jon I encounter sporadic problems when assigning macros to objects - i.e. the macros fail to run when the objects are re-positioned on the same worksheet. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't! There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the macros themselves. Would you happen to know why or have a solution for this? Many thanks. Mei Malaysia Hi Jon
I encounter sporadic problems when assigning macros to objects – i.e. the macros fail to run when the objects are re-positioned on the same worksheet. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t! There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the macros themselves.

Would you happen to know why or have a solution for this?

Many thanks.
Mei
Malaysia

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-8746 Jon Peltier Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:02:15 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-8746 Excel proposed a default macro name that mimics a click event (e.g., Rectangle1_Click), but it isn't really an event in the sense that a command button or other ActiveX control has events it can respond to. You can only assign the name of an existing macro. In the Excel object model, shapes expose no events that your code can respond to. The worksheet itself has a limited set of events you can code against, while charts and AcitveX controls have a rich set of events you can exploit. Excel proposed a default macro name that mimics a click event (e.g., Rectangle1_Click), but it isn’t really an event in the sense that a command button or other ActiveX control has events it can respond to. You can only assign the name of an existing macro.

In the Excel object model, shapes expose no events that your code can respond to. The worksheet itself has a limited set of events you can code against, while charts and AcitveX controls have a rich set of events you can exploit.

]]> By: Ricardo http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-8743 Ricardo Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:48:33 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-8743 I`d like to assign a macro(MouseMove) to a shape like you show above, but whan i click on the shape and chosse Assign Macro, the event assign is always the click event. So my doubt is, could i assing another event like MouseMove instead of Click ? Tks for your help. I`d like to assign a macro(MouseMove) to a shape like you show above, but whan i click on the shape and chosse Assign Macro, the event assign is always the click event. So my doubt is, could i assing another event like MouseMove instead of Click ?

Tks for your help.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-6942 Jon Peltier Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:54:36 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-6942 Intriguing. In Excel 2003, I created a column chart and wrote this code: <pre class="vbasmall">Sub Sample() If ActiveChart Is Nothing Then MsgBox "Select a chart" Else ActiveChart.ChartType = xlLine End If End Sub</pre>   Then I inserted a Forms button and a shape, and applied this macro to both. If I select the chart and click the button, the chart type changes. If I select the chart, change it back to a column chart, and click on the shape, again the chart type changes. The chart remains selected, though after the macro runs it is selected with white handels, meaning the shape containing the chart is actually what is selected. Intriguing. In Excel 2003, I created a column chart and wrote this code:

Sub Sample()
  If ActiveChart Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "Select a chart"
  Else
    ActiveChart.ChartType = xlLine
  End If
End Sub

 
Then I inserted a Forms button and a shape, and applied this macro to both. If I select the chart and click the button, the chart type changes. If I select the chart, change it back to a column chart, and click on the shape, again the chart type changes. The chart remains selected, though after the macro runs it is selected with white handels, meaning the shape containing the chart is actually what is selected.

]]> By: Victor http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-6937 Victor Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:48:08 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-6937 Actually, I simply inserted a shape into a worksheet, made a chart just somewhere on the worksheet, assigned a macro to the "Shape" (not button ;) that is supposed to transfer my chart but I get my error alert saying "please select a chart" when I click on the macro associated shape. If I use a button from the form control, everything is a ok . The problem I believe lies with the following ; when I select a chart to transfer, then hit the "Shape" that I've assigned a macro to (the macro doing the transferring) I believe excel "deselects" the prior selected chart and instead selects the shape then activates the macro causing the above mentioned error. I would use a button instead of the "shape" but the shape looks cool :). Actually, I simply inserted a shape into a worksheet, made a chart just somewhere on the worksheet, assigned a macro to the “Shape” (not button ;) that is supposed to transfer my chart but I get my error alert saying “please select a chart” when I click on the macro associated shape.
If I use a button from the form control, everything is a ok .
The problem I believe lies with the following ; when I select a chart to transfer, then hit the “Shape” that I’ve assigned a macro to (the macro doing the transferring) I believe excel “deselects” the prior selected chart and instead selects the shape then activates the macro causing the above mentioned error.
I would use a button instead of the “shape” but the shape looks cool :).

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/comment-page-1/#comment-6928 Jon Peltier Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:54:22 +0000 http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/12/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-a-button-or-shape/#comment-6928 Victor - If the button is a Forms toolbar button, it interacts with a macro the same way as a shape (right click > Assign Macro...). If it's a controls toolbox button, the protocol is different, as described in <a href="http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/03/13/how-to-assign-a-macro-to-an-activex-control/" title="Assign a Macro to an ActiveX Control" rel="nofollow">How To: Assign a Macro to an ActiveX Control</a>. Or do you mean you added shapes to the chart? If you select the chart, then insert the shape, the shape is part of the chart. If you just added the shape, it's part of the worksheet, not the chart, and grouping the chart to the shape makes another shape, which the chart objects code will not recognize. Victor -

If the button is a Forms toolbar button, it interacts with a macro the same way as a shape (right click > Assign Macro…). If it’s a controls toolbox button, the protocol is different, as described in How To: Assign a Macro to an ActiveX Control.

Or do you mean you added shapes to the chart? If you select the chart, then insert the shape, the shape is part of the chart. If you just added the shape, it’s part of the worksheet, not the chart, and grouping the chart to the shape makes another shape, which the chart objects code will not recognize.

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