The option button is from the Forms menu and is grouped to a label
using rightclick/grouping/group.

The routine I showed, does find the "Group 498" but not the option
button in it. It's as though the "Group 498" is now the option button,
but you cannot change the value.

Hope this makes sense and thank you for your continued help. This is
doing my head in.

Dave Peterson wrote:
I don't think that the option buttons were grouped like that:
(Selecting a few, then rightclick|grouping|Group)

I'm gonna guess that they were grouped by putting a groupbox around the
optionbuttons (or putting the optionbuttons within a groupbox).

The groupbox is also on the Forms toolbar.

But I've been wrong before.



Peter T wrote:

With an option button and a rectangle in group it failed, but when ungrouped
it works

Sub test()
On Error GoTo errH

' fails
ActiveSheet.OptionButtons("Option Button 1").Value = xlOn
'' 1004 Unable to set the Value property of the OptionButton class

ActiveSheet.GroupObjects(1).Ungroup

' now it works
ActiveSheet.OptionButtons("Option Button 1").Value = xlOn

Exit Sub
errH:
Debug.Print Err.Number; Err.Description
Resume Next
End Sub

Maybe it's a version difference thing, this was with XL2000

Regards,
Peter T

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
They worked ok for me.

Are you sure you had option buttons and groupboxes with the matching
names?

Peter T wrote:

Hi Dave,

Activesheet.optionbuttons("Option button 1").value = xlon

That doesn't work for me if the Forms Option button is grouped, nor does
the
testme routine you posted.

Regards,
Peter T

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
I'm confused.

If you're just changing a single optionbutton's value, why not just:
Activesheet.optionbuttons("Option button 1").value = xlon

But if you've grouped your option buttons (from the Forms toolbar) and
want to
do something to a particular group, you can find that group like:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()
Dim ob As OptionButton
For Each ob In ActiveSheet.OptionButtons
If ob.GroupBox.Name = "Group Box 498" Then
If ob.Name = "Option Button 1" Then
ob.Value = xlOn
Exit For 'stop checking ???
End If
End If
Next ob
End Sub

But the GroupBox and optionbutton each will have their own names.


wrote:

I have a option button and label grouped and what of set the option
button to value xlon. I cannot seem to be able to set the value when
it's grouped.

I have been trying this which finds the option button but will not
set
the value.

Dim ob As OptionButton

For Each ob In ActiveSheet.OptionButtons
If ob.Name = "Group 498" Then
ob.Value = xlOn
End If
Next

I get error 'Run-time error 1004': Unable to set the value property
of
the optionbutton class.

Can somebody tell me where I'm going wrong.

Thank you.

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