i want to refer to 1 of several option buttons.
the choice of which button is determined by the value stored as a named
range (EmployeePosition)...

in the following, if the value of Employee Range = "Assoc",
i would want the value of the option button: obAssoc on UserForm1 to be true

Dim obEmployeePostion As Object
obEmployeePosition = "ob" & [EmployeePosition]
Load UserForm1
UserForm1.obEmployeePosition.Value = True
End Sub

......
doesn't seem to be the right approach...
thanks in advance, mark