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Column Headings in muliti-column ListBox

Asked by: patrickab

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In the attached file please select:

1. Cell CIF!C8 - that will start a macro which shows a UserForm.
2. A company name in the top ListBox. That will display that company's address(es) in the lower dialogue box.

When you've done that you will see that the column headings in the lower ListBox are missing. My question is how can the column headings be inserted in the lower ListBox? They should come from the range Addresses!A2:H2.

I only want an actual working solution. So if you know how to do it, please add your VBA code to the file and then upload it as the solution.

Thanks in advance

Patrick

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2009-10-11 at 13:27:30ID24803132
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Answers

 

by: ahammarPosted on 2009-10-11 at 19:49:25ID: 25548392

Hi Patrick,
The way I understand it the only way to put headers in your listbox is to make the rowsource of the listbox = to the source range - the top row.  The top row is automatically used for the headers.
So the only way to do that is to get all your address rows that you need listed in 1 contigious range, including the row with the headers at the top, then set the rowsource property of listbox2 to that range, but don't include the first row with the headers.  I don't think you can use AddItem.

I wrote the code to do that.  I will post it here.  It replaces the code in your Listbox1 click event.

There are a lot of comments just to kinda explain what is going on so it's not really this long.

There is one line of code you will need to add in the form initialization event at the very end.  Here is that line.  It clears the second list box when the form opens...

Sheets("Addresses").Columns("AA:BQ").ClearContents

You'll see why that is necessary when you read the comments in the code for your listbox 1.

It's the only way I could find to do it, but there might be another way, but I doubt it...
I didn't upload the workbook because I made too many changes to the addresses while I was testing

Here is that code:
Just replace what you have in you listbox 1 click event with this: (It'll be much shorter when you rid the comments)


Private Sub ListBox1_Click()
 
Dim sh As Worksheet
Dim MaxRow As Long
Dim myRange As Range
Dim r As Range
 
'Set sh to Sheets("Addresses")
Set sh = Sheets("Addresses")
 
'This is the area of the Addresses sheet that contains
'the range of what listbox2 control source will be set to
'clear this area, and the listbox will clear
sh.Columns("AA:BQ").ClearContents
 
 
'Set MaxRow = to the row with the last company
MaxRow = sh.Range("A" & Cells.Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
 
'MyRange will be the range that holds all the rows
'where the company in column a matches the selected company in listbox1
'Start with the header row first
Set myRange = sh.Range("A2:H2")
 
 
'Set r = cell A3 on Addresses sheet
Set r = sh.Range("A3")
 
'Start a loop. set r to go down every row in column A
'Everytime it finds a value = to listbox1, it adds that
'row to MyRange (from column A to H only)
Do Until r.Row > MaxRow
    If r.Value = ListBox1.Value Then
        'add this row to myRange
        Set myRange = Union(myRange, sh.Range(sh.Cells(r.Row, 1), sh.Cells(r.Row, "H")))
    End If
    Set r = r.Offset(1, 0)
Loop
 
 
'At this point myRange contains all the rows (A - H only)
'that match the company selected in listbox1
'now copy and paste that range to AA1 on the Addresses sheet
myRange.Copy sh.Range("AA1")
 
    
'Get the last used row of the range that got pasted to AA1
MaxRow = sh.Range("AA" & Cells.Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
 
    Me.ListBox2.ColumnWidths = "155;145;150;65;40;18;48;24"
    
    'Now set the rowsource of listbox2 using the pasted values
    'but do not include the first row..it will automatically be
    'the header row
    Me.ListBox2.RowSource = "Addresses!AA2:AH" & MaxRow
    
End Sub
                                              
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by: patrickabPosted on 2009-10-12 at 01:25:23ID: 25549335

Albert,

Thank you for that code. It does indeed solve the problem.

I haven't yet tried it but my guess is that the copying of the range to AA1 and then its use as the RowSource for ListBox1 could be eliminated if one assigned the range to an array and then assigned that to ListBox1.

This whole question is someone else's issue. I provided a solution which omitted the column headings but worked nonetheless. It was really for my interest that I raised this question. Originally the questioner had the address information in a non-contiguous range and I used your approach to assemble a range which could be used and assigned to ListBox1. However ListBoxes won't accept non-contiguous ranges. Apart from which I hadn't then taken the next logical step to assemble a new dependant range from the first one. The long and the short of it was that I'd gone down a blind-alley and needed a fresh approach - for which many thanks.

Patrick

 

by: patrickabPosted on 2009-10-12 at 01:26:51ID: 31639848

Albert,

As ever, a clever solution. Thank you.

Patrick

 

by: ahammarPosted on 2009-10-12 at 06:58:45ID: 25551262

Thanks for the points and the grade!  The code that you were originally using was nice code.  Too bad the headers just couldn't of been added to the listbox....but your idea of assigning the range to an array and then assigning the array to the listbox might work too.  Wouldn't be that hard to try it if you or whoever else wanted too.  It would be better if ot would work...

:-)
Albert

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