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Get the value of a control on a worksheet

Dear Experts

I have a pair of option buttons embedded on a sheet. They alternate true and false values between each other just as they should.

But, How do I retrieve the value of an option button inside Excel VBA, when the option button is NOT on a form?

NB Neither of them are linked to a cell. The values given to them do however persist through a save/reload, so must be stored somewhere.

I have searched the help, and EE, yet not found the answer to what seems a very simple question. All the examples I have seen assume that a form is being used.

Many thanks in advance.

Hopeful Kiwi

Norie

You don't say which type of controls they are, ActiveX or Forms.

If we assume they are ActiveX then put this code in the worksheet module of the worksheet they are on.

Private Sub OptionButton1_Click()
    Select Case True
        Case OptionButton1.Value
            Range("A1") = "OptionButton1"
        Case OptionButton2.Value
            Range("A1") = "OptionButton2"
    End Select
End Sub

Private Sub OptionButton2_Click()
    Select Case True
        Case OptionButton1.Value
            Range("A1") = "OptionButton1"
        Case OptionButton2.Value
            Range("A1") = "OptionButton2"
    End Select
End Sub

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Mark Dalley

ASKER

They are actually Forms controls.

Also, I need to be able to retrieve the value of the control as soon as the worksheet opens (before anything gets clicked and loses the previous state), so putting it into a click event handler is too late, so to speak.

Hopeful Kiwi

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Mark Dalley

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Hi Kyle / imnorie

Both your latest methods work fine.

Who would have guessed that an option button is a drawingObject! The help is basically silent about DrawingObjects, likewise about the fact that a worksheet has an OptionButtons collection, and OptionButton properties.

The help did however disclose that the two possible values of an option button revealed by kgerb's code (1 and -4146) correspond to the constants xlOn and xlOff respectively. Not what one would call an intuitive correspondence.

Many thanks to both of you - I will split the points equally.

Hopeful Kiwi

P.S. EE made me choose a best solution but I think they were both equally good / instructive.