It is both Susan. They are not preserved, and some properties cannot be
changed at run time (some, such as caption where applicable, you can). Name
is obviously one of these.

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HTH

Bob

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"Susan" wrote in message
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well, i tried this code:

Option Explicit

Sub userform_initialize()

Dim oControl As Control
Dim StartNumber As Long

For Each oControl In Me.Controls
If TypeOf oControl Is msforms.CheckBox Then
StartNumber = 1
oControl.Name = "Userform2_Checkbox" & StartNumber
StartNumber = StartNumber + 1
End If
Next oControl

End Sub

& i get an error saying: " Run-time error '382': Could not set the
Name property. Can not set property at runtime."
so i guess that's why he's saying you can't do it.
susan


On Mar 5, 3:09 pm, "Susan" wrote:
i think (not sure) that bob's saying that while my approach will/might
work, the changes won't be saved............... (i'm going to test
this myself).
by "designer" mode i believe he just means to have the VBA editor open
& manually change all the names in the properties box.
susan

On Mar 5, 2:52 pm, "hdf" wrote:



On Mar 5, 8:34 pm, "Bob Phillips" wrote:

The problem is that just changing the names isn't preserved, you need
to do
it via Designer.

Something like this

Dim oVBProj As Object
Dim oVBComp As Object
Dim ctl As Control
Dim i As Long

Set oVBProj = ThisWorkbook.VBProject

On Error Resume Next

For Each oVBComp In oVBProj.VBComponents
If oVBComp.Type = 3 Then
For Each ctl In oVBComp.Designer.Controls
If TypeName(ctl) = "CheckBox" Then
i = i + 1
ctl.Name = "ChkBx_" & oVBComp.codemodule.Name &
"_" & i
ctl.ControlSource = "=A1" '"=ChkBx_" &
oVBComp.codemodule.Name & "_Link" & i
End If
Next
End If
Next

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my
addy)

"hdf" wrote in message

roups.com...

On Mar 5, 7:31 pm, "Bob Phillips" wrote:
Why would you not just set these as required in design mode?

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HTH

Bob

I'm trying to avoid manually having to write the name and range
name
in controlsource over and over 80 userforms x 20 chkboxes per form
x 2
changes per userform.

By creating code I can simply create one set of instructions for
the
first UserForm, use it once, then do a search and replace in the
code
for the number (e.g. search for "Uf1" in the names called
"Uf1_name1...Uf1_name20" and Replace with "Uf2", etc.) and then run
the code again for the next UserForm and do this for each new
UserForm.

This would speed up the work a hundred fold, plus it avoids or
limits
the chances for spelling errors.

Bob, thank you for your response. I don't really know what Designer
is and I'm afraid that what you suggest is way over my head and I
think it would be more prudent to do it the old fashion way.

Thanks none the less.

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