XL97: Visual Basic Example for Using SpinButton with a Date

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel 97, you can use a SpinButton on a UserForm to change values on a worksheet or in a Visual Basic procedure. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications in Excel 97 provides the ability to attach procedures to object events such as clicking on the down arrow of the SpinButton (SpinDown event) and clicking on the up arrow (SpinUp event).

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The following Visual Basic procedure demonstrates how to use a SpinButton control to both increment and decrement a date value in an edit box.

1. From a new workbook in Microsoft Excel 97, press ALT + F11 to activate the Visual Basic Editor.

2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor, click Insert and choose UserForm.

3. Choose the TextBox tool from the Controls Toolbox. Place a TextBox (TextBox1) on the UserForm.

4. Choose the SpinButton tool from the Controls Toolbox. Place a SpinButton (SpinButton1) on the UserForm.

5. Choose the CommandButton tool from the Controls Toolbox. Place a CommandButton (CommandButton1) on the UserForm.

6. On the View menu, click Properties Window.

7. With CommandButton1 selected, click the Caption and type "Close Now" (without the quotation marks) and press ENTER. This places the text on the CommandButton.

8. Select the UserForm by clicking anywhere on the form. In the Properties Window, click Caption, type "Change Date" (without the quotation marks), and press ENTER.

9. Right-click the CommandButton and choose View Code. Two lines of code are automatically entered for you. Between those two lines, type the following:

   UserForm1.Hide

10. Click "UserForm1 (UserForm)" on the Window menu to return to the UserForm.

11. On the UserForm, right-click the SpinButton and choose View Code.

12. Ensure that the Object dropdown (the dropdown in the upper left of the window) shows "SpinButton1" (without the quotation marks). Click the Procedures dropdown box (the dropdown in the upper right of the window) and choose SpinDown. Type the following code between the two lines placed automatically on the sheet.

    UserForm1.TextBox1.Text = DateValue(UserForm1.TextBox1.Text) - 1

13. Click the Procedures dropdown box and choose SpinUp. Type the following code between the two lines of code placed automatically on the sheet.

    UserForm1.TextBox1.Text = DateValue(UserForm1.TextBox1.Text) + 1

14. In the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor, click Insert and choose Module. On the module sheet, type the following code:

           Sub ShowForm()
               UserForm1.TextBox1.Text = Date
               UserForm1.Show
           End Sub
    
    

15. In the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor, click Tools and choose Macros. In the Macros dialog, click ShowForm and then click Run.

REFERENCES

For additional information about how this can be accomplished in Microsoft Excel versions 5.x and 7.x, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q116118
   TITLE     : Visual Basic Example of Spinner Use on a Date

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