Add a Combo Box (Drop Down Menu / List) to a UserForm in Excel
This Excel VBA tutorial shows you how to add a ComboBox (Drop Down List or Menu) to a UserForm (User Form) in Excel. You will learn how to create the drop down list, how to edit the drop down list, and how to add, edit, and remove items from the drop down list. There are five different examples of how to add data to the ComboBox and thorough explanations with each example. Some examples show you how to create the ComboBox from data contained within a worksheet and other examples show you how to use data from VBA for the ComboBox. This tutorial covers everything that you need to know in order to add a ComboBox to a UserForm in Excel.
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This Excel VBA UserForm tutorial shows you how to add data from an Excel UserForm onto the next blank row or line in a worksheet. This allows you to use Excel as a sort of database for information. This tutorial covers how to setup the UserForm, how to add VBA code to the UserForm, and what VBA code to use to ensure that data from the form will always be input into the next blank row within the desired worksheet. This tutorial covers the VBA code needed for this functionality step-by-step. There is also a thorough review of how to change the VBA code in this tutorial to fit your own UserForm so that you won’t have to start from scratch. This tutorial provides a comprehensive explanation of how to add data from a UserForm to the next blank row within a worksheet in Excel.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to run or open a UserForm by clicking a button within a worksheet in Excel. This allows you to have quick and easy access to any UserForm that you create and is the way that most people access their UserForms. Specifically, you will learn what VBA code you need to write to open or run the UserForm; how to insert a button into a worksheet in Excel; and how to make that button open or run the UserForm. This tutorial shows you everything you need in order to open a UserForm by clicking a button in Excel.
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This Excel VBA UserForm tutorial shows you how to close a UserForm using a button within the form. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a button to the form, rename the button, and make it so that clicking that button will close the UserForm. You will also learn the default method for closing a form.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to change the title of the UserForm. The title is the text that appears in the bar at the top of the form. By default, the text reads something like UserForm1, and this does not look very professional. In addition to changing the title of the UserForm, you will learn how to change the name of the form.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to change the text or label of a button in an Excel UserForm. You will learn how to add a command button to a UserForm; how to change the text displayed on the button; and, how to change the name of the button. This tutorial covers all of the basics related to command buttons in Excel UserForms.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to view the toolbox that allows you to add elements to a UserForm. This toolbox is normally visible in the VBA Editor window; however, it is very easy to accidentally close, and, when closed, you aren’t going to be able to add design elements to your form. This tutorial shows you the steps required to get the toolbox window back within the VBA editor window.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to add a text label to a UserForm in Excel. A label is just text that you can put into a UserForm in order to tell a user what to input and where to input it. Labels are essentially all of the text that you see within a UserForm. This tutorial shows you how to add labels and change the display text of labels in a UserForm.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to add a tip to the UserForm that will appear when you hover over a control, such as a TextBox, CommandButton, etc. This feature allows you to save space on the UserForm by putting any helpful or auxiliary text or tips into a box that only appears when you hover over a specified UserForm control.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to remove the extra spaces from the left of a TextBox. By default, UserForm TextBox’s contain an extra space or margin to the left of any text that is input into it. This can be very annoying and does not look professional. Note, removing this extra space is sometimes referred to as ‘left justifying’ the text within a TextBox.
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This Excel UserForm tutorial shows you how to limit the number of characters that a user can enter into a TextBox control within a UserForm. This is a form of data validation and allows you to prevent incorrect values from being input into the form. Note, this tutorial does not show you how to prevent certain text or numbers from being entered into a TextBox; users will still be able to enter any character into the TextBox, but they will be limited by how many characters they can input.
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