XL97: How to Determine the Key Pressed Along with Mouse Button

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel 97 incorporates many more events for activating macros. Some of the new events include MouseDown, MouseUp, KeyDown, and KeyUp. One of the Arguments returned by these particular events, Shift, denotes which Key (SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT) on your keyboard is pressed when one of the aforementioned events is triggered.

This articles provides a sample macro that shows how to use the Shift argument returned by the MouseDown event of a CommandButton.

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1. Save and close any open workbooks and then open a new workbook.

2. Start the Visual Basic Editor (press ALT+F11).

3. On the Insert menu, click UserForm.

4. Add a CommandButton to the UserForm.

5. Double-click the CommandButton to display the Code Module behind the UserForm.

6. Enter the following code for the MouseDown event for the CommandButton:

         Private Sub CommandButton1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, _
             ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
   
             Select Case Shift
   
                 Case 0
                     MsgBox "No key pressed"
                 Case 1
                     MsgBox "SHIFT key pressed"
                 Case 2
                     MsgBox "CTRL key pressed"
                 Case 3
                     MsgBox "CTRL and SHIFT keys pressed"
                 Case 4
                     MsgBox "ALT key pressed"
                 Case 5
                     MsgBox "ALT and SHIFT keys pressed"
                 Case 6
                     MsgBox "CTRL and ALT keys pressed"
                 Case 7
                     MsgBox "CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keys pressed"
   
             End Select
   
         End Sub
   
   

7. Run the UserForm.

8. Click the CommandButton with any combination (or none at all) of the CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keys pressed as you click with your mouse.

1. Close the UserForm.

    Value of Shift
    argument         Keys Pressed
    -------------------------------------
    0                no keys pressed
    1                SHIFT
    2                CTRL
    3                SHIFT and CTRL
    4                ALT
    5                ALT and SHIFT
    6                ALT and CTRL
    7                ALT, SHIFT, and CTRL

REFERENCES

For more information about the MouseDown or MouseUp Events, click the Office Assistant, type "MouseDown", click Search, and then click to view "MouseDown, MouseUp Events".