Delete All Text Boxes In A Spreadsheet/Workbook
Jun 16, 2008
I have a spreadsheet with over 20 tabs - each containing 6 text boxes containing financial commentary. Each month, the tabs are 'overpasted' with the latest month equivalents. This results in the latest month's text boxes sitting on top of the previous month's. I would like to attach functionality that deletes all the text boxes at the start of the monthly cycle - so the 'overpasting' exercise starts with a spreadsheet that contains no text boxes. I have been unsuccessfull with my attempts because each text box has a unique number - which changes every month. Does any VBA script exist to delete all the text boxes in a workbook or tab?
For reasons that are too longwinded to go into, there is no way around the overpasting set-up as summarised above (I recognise this is far from the ideal solution).
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Apr 9, 2009
I'm sure you're all familiar with Text Boxes:
You can add shapes and text boxes (text box: A movable, resizable container for text or graphics. Use text boxes to position several blocks of text on a page or to give text a different orientation from other text in the document.) to a worksheet by using the Drawing toolbar.
Did you know that if you click the text box button, then click on a spreadsheet (inserting a blank text box), then click off the text box, a small blank text box will remain hidden from view on your spreadsheet? Once hidden, the only way to find it is to slowly move your cursor over the Text Box edge, and watch the cursor momentarily change shape. Did you also know that if you copy or fill down the cells behind that text box, it will make as many copies of itself as you made for the cell? Not too dis-similar from a virus.
Imagine what would happen if you unknowingly had some of these text boxes on your main calculation sheet (200 columns by 2000 rows); one where you regularly copied formulae/cells for a period of over four years. Yes, (judging by their names e.g. "Text Box 29413") the thriving population of these invisible beasties is now in the neighbourhood of thirty thousand! The damn things are worse than fleas; and they're impairing the function of the whole workbook.
Help! Would someone please provide a VBA macro to find, select and delete these little devils from the spreadsheet (just this one spreadsheet)?
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Nov 10, 2009
I could use some assistance in creating a macro that will delete all and only text boxes on the active sheet. Some text boxes will be empty, but I still wish for them all to be deleted. Through searching the forums I see a similiar code, but it deletes all shapes on the active sheet:
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Mar 23, 2009
is there a way to have check boxes in a spreadsheet, that when ticked add a cost to a totals cell
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Oct 15, 2008
I have a couple of excelfiles in which someone made a flowchart with text boxes. I would like a search code that would help me find a text or number in those text boxes. The CTRL+F function only works on cells. Does something similar exist for text boxes? Or can this be made in a macro?
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Sep 12, 2007
Trying to Find a specific word and Replace with another within a textbox ( created from the drawing tool, as well as the control toolbar) The textboxes contain loads of text information.
as an example
The word "Apple" to be replaced with "Orange"
I came across this code from the archives (compliments of Dave Hawley)
Sub ReplaceTextBoxText()
Dim sTextBox As Shape
Dim wSheet As Worksheet
Set wSheet = Sheets.Add()
For Each sTextBox In Sheet1.Shapes
I've tried several variations with no results. (perhaps it's to extensive for my modest needs)
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All worked well, but now the width of de dropdownbox is very big, stretching over several cells. The cell width is 70 pixels, but the dropdown box is 500 width.
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Feb 4, 2009
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Private Sub LoadRow()
txtTrussco.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 1).Value
txtTPhone.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 2).Value
txtTFax.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 3).Value
txtTAddress.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 4).Value
txtTCity.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 5).Value
txtTState.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 6).Value
txtTZipcode.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 7).Value
txtTSalesrep.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 8).Value
txtTSrepphone.Text = Cells(lCurrentRow, 9).Value
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May 23, 2009
I have a ton of text boxes on a userform that are in an initial state of being disabled. Is there a quick way of enabling by use of a mask for these Text Boxes ?
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Example
tb_liqname, tb_casecost, tb_bottleprice etc etc..
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May 29, 2009
I may be doing this wrong, but I have a form that i created using Active X controls in Excel 2007 (I couldn't use the form control text box, it was greyed out). I have textbox1, textbox2 etc... I got the form to work but I can't tab through. When the user is done entering data in textbox1, I want to set the focus to textbox2. i would like this to happen with enter and tab.
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Aug 5, 2009
I have been working on an excel sheet with several text boxes that need data manually putting into them. I have set the texts boxes out in the correct order and could tab thru them perfectly in order, but then I saved, closed then reopen the document and now the text boxes do not tab in order. I have tried to rearrange them, delete them and start again but the same problem happens every time and I cannot get the tab order of the text boxes to stay in order
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Apr 25, 2013
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Dec 5, 2013
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Apr 21, 2014
I have files where empty textboxes have been copied over tens if not hundreds of times, thereby slowing down the scrolling speed immensely.
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May 22, 2014
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I current have a Unique reference which is a combo box that once you select it auto populate the record but this will take forever having to populate ach record to find which one the user is looking for.
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Mar 26, 2014
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Mar 4, 2009
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My text boxes all have names like this txtap1run11, txtap1run12, txtap1run13...
As you can see all I need to do is change the last number of the text box name.
I can't figure out how to do that though. I came up with this, I don't have the do while loop in.
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Mar 30, 2009
Currently I'm using this:
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May 1, 2013
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My code is as follows:-
Private Sub TextD_Exit(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)
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Apr 10, 2007
I want to transfer the contents of around 20 textboxes to 20 different cells. Allthough I have seen many code examples for doing this with a single text box e.g.
Sub getext()
Dim s As String
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Text Box 1").Select
s = Selection.Characters.Text
Range("A100").Value = s
End Sub
I can't seem to get it to loop through 20 boxes automatically using a For next loop for instance. Also I would like it to skip any empty text boxes it finds.
From what I've seen I don't think it would take too much code but I'm afraid I'm a complete beginner with macro's and completely stuck.
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The attached example sheet shows for one week a list of columns with officer's initials at the top, and says how many people were seen by each person each day during that week and then a how many people overall for the week.
I'd like to be able to generate statistics on the amount of time each officer has spent on average with customers, and base this on the fact that people have 360 minutes per day (they do 6 hours of appointments and another hour for admin) to see people.
I think the spreadsheet attached gives a good idea of the system and what I want to do.
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I have many text boxes on a form and if any of them are empty then I want a msgbox to popup and exit sub. I know how to do the following
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if txt....2
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Is there anyway to group the text boxes to test for empty so you don't have to list 20 textboxes
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Dec 28, 2009
I am trying to make a calculator inside of Excel...learning how Text Boxes work in conjunction with CommandButton. I am trying to code the button to display inside of the text box. I have never coded a text box before to do anything like.
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(ie...if Button 1 is clicked, 1 will be displayed, if Button 2 is clicked the display will adjust to show 12, etc etc)
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