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Default combo box to activate functions in another cell. mayday,mayday

Yes, kind of....
Make sure the code window of the worksheet you want is open.
Click the drop down at the top left and select you combo box.
You will get the default event inserted for you, which _Change, I think.
So now click the top right drop down and select Click.

NickHK

"pogo" wrote in message
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is the click in the upper right hand drop down menu in the section that

you
would view code, and im new at this what kind of code do i enter and how,
sorry so new but learning every day

"NickHK" wrote:

The comb box has a _Click which fires when you select one the values on

the
list.
You can run code from that event.

NickHK

"pogo" wrote in message
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please someone, i have been learning excel and working on this for

months
and
months. i am so frustrated.!!!!! My problem is this. in my excel

sheet, i
have cell af16 control many different functions depending on what a

person
would type into cell af16. people cant spell right(including myself)

so
therefore i am trying to use a combo box from the control toolbar. I

have
tried the forms combo box and data validation and the font is too

small
and
it doesnt look right. My idea is to choose from a list that i created

in
cells au822:au846( example of list =m,inl,hol,office etc) each of

these
words
when placed into cell af16 activates functions which control the

calculations
on the rest of the sheet. I have created the combol box and the list

comes
up
beautifully(list fill), and the cell linked is af16 which DOES take

the
word
from the drop down list and populates cell af16 with that word. The

problem
is thats all it does I cant get the word to activate the functions as

if I
were to actually type the word into af16( which makes it work). I know

its
code and am stuck, if someone can help with this code I will dedicate

so
much
time to learning excel and then return the help on this forum.