Question

Change size of checkbox in Excel

Asked by: glennes

I want to create a checkbox control in my worksheet where I can re-size the dimensions of the checkbox, but I understand that is not possible when using the standard Excel ActiveX checkbox control.  I searched Experts Exchange to see what I could find on this topic, and found two approaches that sound good, but I'm not having any luck making them work.

One expert responded with the text quoted below. What he's saying makes sense, but I have no ideal how to "trap the Selection_Change event of the cell". I can put the Dingbats symbol in a cell, but not sure how to do the rest.

"You could alternatively create you own checkbox using empty and filled ballot box characters. These may be found with the Insert...Symbol menu item--empty it is Unicode 2610; checked, it is Unicode 2611. You can find it on the Miscellaneuous Dingbats submenu. As a font character, you can size it as you wish. To use it as a checkbox, you would trap the Selection_Change event of the cell, then change from one character to the other."

Another expert suggested this code for doing the task, but I don't understand what he's saying to do:

Create a Custom Property
'    (Declarations)
     Private yesno As Boolean

    Property Let Changed(yy As Boolean)
      yesno = yy
    End Property

    Property Get Changed() As Boolean
     Changed = yesno
    End Property

'In the Changed Events of the Control you want to track just paste the following code:

   Form1.Changed = True

Can some of the experts elaborate on the above approaches, or provide me with another method to create a checkbox that I can re-size?

Thanks!

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2009-11-05 at 07:24:18ID24874729
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Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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Answers

 

by: roryaPosted on 2009-11-05 at 09:07:35ID: 25751596

That second part would seem to be a small section of a much larger piece of code. For the former, I'm not sure a SelectionChange event is ideal. I would probably use a doubleClick event instead. Can you give more detail as to the layout of your workbook - a sample file would be helpful.

Regards,

Rory

 

by: patrickabPosted on 2009-11-05 at 10:58:14ID: 25752677

glennes,

The TextBox in the UserForm in the attached file can be made almost any size you want.

Click the button on Sheet1 and double click the TextBox and then double click it again. It will change from a check/tick to a x and back again - and so on.

The code is below.

Patrick

Private Sub TextBox1_DblClick(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)
    If TextBox1.Text = "ü" Then
        TextBox1.Text = "û"
    Else
        TextBox1.Text = "ü"
    End If
End Sub

                                              
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by: patrickabPosted on 2009-11-05 at 11:00:25ID: 25752700

glennes,

Note that the font of the ListBox is Wingdings and I've used a 72pt type size - just for effect!

Patrick

 

by: glennesPosted on 2009-11-05 at 11:07:16ID: 25752765

Attached is a copy of the spreadsheet showing what I'm trying to do.

 

by: glennesPosted on 2009-11-09 at 07:02:50ID: 25776446

patrickab...

In your spreadsheet, I see the control button and the VBA code associated with it.  (I changed the font size down to 22pt so I can see it better.)  In the code that goes with the user form, the character number for the blank checkbox is Wingdings2 42 (hex is 002A) and the checked box is Wingdings2 84 (hex 0054) as taken from the character map for the Wingdings2 font.

I attached a Word document that shows the two font characters you used.  I need the code to reference the two Wingdings2 fonts mentioned above instead of the symbols in your code.

Also, I'm not sure how to use this in a spreadsheet with data in it. I want it to operate the same way as a standard Excel ActiveX control would for the standard Excel checkbox control as shown in the attachment, on the 3rd image - except that the small, non-resizable checkbox control would be replaced with the Wingdings2 fonts - one for a blank box and one for a checked box - when the user clicks on the blank-box character, it changes to the checked-box character, and vice-versa. For the standard Excel checkbox control, I usually create a text box, then, in Design Mode, place the checkbox control in the text box and change the caption in properties to read what I want it to.  Can you tell me how to do this using the custom user form so that I can place it in my spreadsheet instead of the standard Excel control?

 

by: patrickabPosted on 2009-11-09 at 07:23:35ID: 25776658

glennes,

The code below is sepcific to cell E7. Hope it helps as you cannot have an ActiveX check box that is re-sizeable. So instead I have implemented a simple cell with the a Selection Change macro attached to that cell.

Hope it helps

Patrick

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim rng As Range
 
With Sheets("Sheet1")
Set rng = Cells(7, "E")
End With
 
If Not Intersect(Target, rng) Is Nothing Then
    If rng = "O" Then
        rng = "P"
    Else
        rng = "O"
    End If
End If
 
End Sub

                                              
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by: glennesPosted on 2009-11-12 at 10:47:18ID: 31650528

Thanks!

 

by: patrickabPosted on 2009-11-12 at 10:48:40ID: 25807481

glennes - Thanks for the grade - Patrick

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