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Default Option button controlling text box

That wouldn't matter as it's based on the change event of
the "other" option button amd the option buttons are
mutually exclusive.
If "other" was clicked then it changes to true and the
textbox is enabled.
If any of the other option buttons are clicked
then "other" will change to false and the textbox will be
disabled.

-----Original Message-----
There are 8 other buttons.

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HTH

Bob Phillips
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"Libby" wrote in

message
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Can't you just put something like following in the

change
event for the "other" option button?

Private Sub OptionOTHER_Change()
TextBox1 = ""
TextBox1.Enabled = OptionOTHER.Value
End Sub


-----Original Message-----
G'day there One & All,

I have what I hope is a smallish problem that can

easily
be resolved by
someone with more knowledge than me (which is a

sizeable
portion of the
populace I might add).

I have a userform with a collection of 9 optionbuttons

inside a frame.
There is also a single textbox. The optionbuttons

describe mutually
exclusive categories with the last being for "Other".

I'm
trying to make
the textbox disabled & locked until the "Other"

optionbutton is
selected. I think I've got that bit worked out, however

if the user has
erred and then clicks one of the other options I can't

find a way to
again lock & disable the textbox as the

optionbutton_onclick() event
isn't captured unless you click in the option.

Naturally,
that's what
selects that option, not unselects it.

Elsewhere in the form I've used a checkbox to do the

same thing,
however that frame's "Other" is not intended to exclude

other choices
like this one is. I'd much prefer to use an

optionbutton
as my users are
to a large degree not particularly computer literate

and
I want my forms
and application to do as much of the work as possible.

I
don't trust any
of my users to actually RTFM <g.

Is there anyway that I can setup the "Other"

optionbutton as a toggle?
Will I have to use the Frame's "Click" event to

determine
which
optionbutton has been selected and disable the textbox

from that? (If
that works)

Any ideas would be appreciated, especially if they're

simple enough
that I can understand what the heck is going on.

See ya
Ken McLennan
Qld, Australia
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