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VBA: User form in Excel
Hi everyone,
What I have created, using VBA in Excel, is a custom user form for customer payments input.
The form has 3 fields for specifying the customer number, the customer name and the amount paid.
The customer name is linked to a database in the same Excel s/sheet containing all customer numbers and names.
On the form I have a button and when pressed, I have a macro that runs and picks up the customer name by looking at the database until it finds the customer number and picks up the name - the cell on the right. The macro works, but I want to know if there is a way to do this without pressing this button.
Can I get the macro to run or use another method so that the customer name can be displayed automatically once the customer is entered.
I am hoping this is pretty simple, but please help.
I can not think of a way and it does get annoying to always go through an extra step in order to verify the customer name.
Help!
What I have created, using VBA in Excel, is a custom user form for customer payments input.
The form has 3 fields for specifying the customer number, the customer name and the amount paid.
The customer name is linked to a database in the same Excel s/sheet containing all customer numbers and names.
On the form I have a button and when pressed, I have a macro that runs and picks up the customer name by looking at the database until it finds the customer number and picks up the name - the cell on the right. The macro works, but I want to know if there is a way to do this without pressing this button.
Can I get the macro to run or use another method so that the customer name can be displayed automatically once the customer is entered.
I am hoping this is pretty simple, but please help.
I can not think of a way and it does get annoying to always go through an extra step in order to verify the customer name.
Help!
ASKER
"leave method of the textbox" or "lost focus" - what are those and how could I use them?
Are they available in VBA?
I need for the keyer to varify the customer name as the payment can be easily keyed to a wrong customer. I want to display it tough, so the keyer can just look up, make sure the name is right and keep on keying other payments.
Thanks,
vb
Are they available in VBA?
I need for the keyer to varify the customer name as the payment can be easily keyed to a wrong customer. I want to display it tough, so the keyer can just look up, make sure the name is right and keep on keying other payments.
Thanks,
vb
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Thanks Bruintje,
this is exactly what I wanted.
Simple yet effective.
Thanks again,
vb
this is exactly what I wanted.
Simple yet effective.
Thanks again,
vb
glad it helped
why do you want to do that anyway, it can be a bit cumbersome if you key in a wrong name and leave the box the program tries to look it up...
:O)Bruintje