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In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, you can determine which items in a multi-selection list box are selected by using the Selected property of the list box. This article contains an example of how this can be done with a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure.
In a custom dialog box, a multi-selection list box allows you to choose any number of items from a list. For example, if a list contains Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, you can select any, none, or all of those items.
To determine which items are selected, you can use the Selected property of the list box. The Selected property of a multi-selection list box is an array of values: each value is either True, if the item is selected, or False, if the item is not selected. For example, if the list contains 1, 2, 3, and 4, and 2 and 3 are selected, the Selected property would be the following array
False, True, True, False
An example of how to read the Selected array in a Visual Basic procedure is shown below.
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1. Save and close any current workbooks.
2. Open a new workbook.
3. Hold down the CTRL key, click a sheet tab and choose Insert.
4. Select MS Excel 5.0 Dialog on the General tab and click OK.
5. On the worksheet, enter the following values:
A1: Alpha
A2: Bravo
A3: Charlie
A4: Delta
A5: Echo
A6: Foxtrot
A7: Golf
A8: Hotel
box.
Sheet1!$A$1:$A$8 on the dialog sheet, following steps:
a. On the Forms toolbar, click List Box. To create a list box, Drag the
dialog frame.
b. Select the list box.
c. In the Name box, type "List1" (without the quotation marks) and
press ENTER.
d. From the Format menu, choose Object.
e. Select the Control tab.
f. In the Input Range box, type "Sheet1!$A$1:$A$8" (without the
quotation marks).
g. Under Selection Type, select the Multi option.
h. Choose OK to accept the change.
The list box is now linked to Sheet1!$A$1:$A$8 and is a multi selection
list box.
9. In the module, enter the following:
'----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub ShowSelectedItems()
' Dimension variables.
Dim CurList As ListBox, Chosen As Integer
Dim LTemp As Variant, LItem As Variant
Dim Counter As Integer, MsgBoxText As String
' Set an object name for the list box to make it
' easier to reference.
Set CurList = _
DialogSheets("Dialog1").ListBoxes("List1")
' Initialize the list so that none of the items are
' selected.
CurList.Selected = _
Array(False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False)
' Show the dialog box and set variable 'chosen' to
' the value returned by the dialog box.
chosen = DialogSheets("Dialog1").Show
' If cancel is chosen, exit the procedure.
If chosen = 0 Then GoTo canceled
' Set the variable LTemp equal to the array of values
' indicating the selection state of the list box items.
LTemp = CurList.Selected
' Initialize the Counter variable.
Counter = 1
' Iterate through the loop once for each item in the
' array (which is the same as iterating once for each
' item in the list box).
For Each LItem In LTemp
' If the value of the current item is True...
If LItem = True Then
' Add text to the MsgBoxText variable indicating
' that the item is selected.
' CurList.List(Counter) returns the text of the selected item
' ("Alpha", "Bravo", and so on).
MsgBoxText = MsgBoxText & CurList.List(Counter) & _
" is selected. " & Chr(13)
' Otherwise...
Else
' Add text to the MsgBoxText variable indicating that
' the item is not selected.
' CurList.List(Counter) returns the text of the unselected item
' ("Alpha", "Bravo", and so on).
MsgBoxText = MsgBoxText & CurList.List(Counter) & _
" is NOT selected. " & Chr(13)
End If
' Increment the Counter so we can get the value of the
' next selected item.
Counter = Counter + 1
' Repeat until all the items in the list have
' been checked.
Next
' Display a dialog box indicating the selection state
' of each item in the list.
MsgBox MsgBoxText
' If the Cancel button was chosen, exit procedure.
canceled:
End Sub
'----------------------------------------------------------------------
procedure, and either press F5 or click Run Macro on the Run menu.
box, and choose the OK button.
Note that you can modify this example and substitute any functions that perform a desired task using the selection state of the list items. For example, you might want to insert the current list item into a cell on a worksheet. To do this, you could use the following command
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(10, 10).Value = CurList.List(Counter)
For more information about creating ListBoxes, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition Help, type the following text
listboxes, creating
Additional query words: XL98
Keywords : kbdta
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbhowto
Solution Type : kbpendingLast Reviewed: May 18, 1999