XL: Visual Basic Macro to Determine Which Button Was Selected

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SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, you can create a Microsoft Visual Basic for Application macro to determine which button on a dialog box or a worksheet was clicked. You can do this by using the Caller property in conjunction with a Select Case statement.

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To create a macro that determines which button was clicked

1. To open a new workbook, click New on the File menu.

2. To create a new dialog sheet, click Macro on the Insert menu, and then 

   click Dialog.
3. On the dialog sheet, add three buttons by clicking the Create Button 
   button on the Forms toolbar.

   Note the defined names that Microsoft Excel gives each button in the
   Names box (the box at the left end of the formula bar).
4. To insert a new module, click Macro on the Insert menu, and then click 
   Module.
5. In the new Module sheet, enter the following code: 

      ' Procedure to display which button was pressed.
      Sub WhichButton()

         ' Assign the calling object to a variable.
         ButtonName = Application.Caller

         ' Display the name of the button that was clicked.
         Select Case ButtonName

            ' NOTE: When you type the name of the button, note that
            ' Visual Basic is case and space sensitive when comparing                                                
            ' strings. For example, "Button 6" and "button6" are not the 
            ' same.
            Case "Button 6"
            MsgBox Application.Caller & "  was Clicked"

            Case "Button 7"
            MsgBox Application.Caller & " was clicked."

            Case "Button 8"
            MsgBox Application.Caller & " was clicked."

         End Select

      End Sub
6. Switch to the dialog sheet.

7. To assign the WhichButton procedure to each button on the dialog sheet, 

   select the button, click Assign Macro on the Tools menu, select the
   WhichButton macro, and click OK. (Repeat this step for each button on
   the dialog sheet.)
To display the dialog sheet, click Run Dialog on the Tools menu.

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Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999