Well, you asked:
if it was possible for Excel VBA to read the value of a mouse cord x z
value...

I am sure what you want is possible, but it looks messy to me, particularly
Sendkeys, which
really should be your very last option. What situation in practical terms
are you trying to solve?

RBS


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On Jul 20, 3:00 pm, "RB Smissaert"
wrote:
I get the feeling there must be a simpler way to do what you want, but
this
will get you the mouse coordinates:

Option Explicit
Private Type POINTAPI
x As Long
y As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function GetCursorPos _
Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long

Function GetCursorPosition() As Long()

Dim Point As POINTAPI
Dim arr(1 To 2) As Long

GetCursorPos Point

arr(1) = Point.x
arr(2) = Point.y

GetCursorPosition = arr

End Function

Sub test()

Dim arr() As Long

arr = GetCursorPosition()

MsgBox "x " & arr(1) & vbCrLf & _
"y " & arr(2), , "mouse coordinates"

End Sub

RBS

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Fellow programmers thank you for your time. I need some assistance...
I am trying to figure out how to get the mouse cursor select from text
from a specific x z cord and paste the value in a text box on my
userform. Here is some code I tried...

SetCursorPos 255, 413

Do Until UserForm1.TextBox1.Value = 521
DoEvents
Application.Run "mouscoords"
mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&
SendKeys "^C", True
UserForm1.TextBox3.SetFocus
SendKeys "^V", True
mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&
UserForm1.TextBox1.Value = UserForm1.TextBox1.Value + 1
SetCursorPos UserForm1.TextBox1.Value, 413
DoEvents
Loop

It doesn't seem to want to work... I'd imagine that this isn't the
best way of doing this but but I'm curious if anyone has gotten
something simlar to work. I was also wondering if it was possible for
Excel VBA to read the value of a mouse cord x z value... Any ideas?
There seems to be alot of brilliant people on this message board so I
look forward to see what the end result is.

Thank you ever so much!- Hide quoted text -

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Thank you for your reply however, I'm already aware of how to get the
X Z cords... what I'm looking for it to do is select a range of text
in a given x z cordinate -- then copy it. My macro is programmed do
this but for whatever reason it's not. The process is explained
below...

'------------------- STARTING POSISTION OF HIGHLIGHT TEXT
SetCursorPos 255, 413
'------------------- END POSISTION OF TEXT is equal to 521, 413
Do Until UserForm1.TextBox1.Value = 521
DoEvents
'------------------- Grabs the current X Z values
Application.Run "mouscoords"
'------------------- LEFT CLICK THE MOUSE BUTTON
mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&
'------------------- COPY THE CURRENT LETTER HIGHLIGHTED
SendKeys "^C", True
'------------------- SETFOCUS TO THE OUTPUT TEXT BOX ON THE USERFORM
UserForm1.TextBox3.SetFocus
'------------------- PASTE THE COPIED VALUE
SendKeys "^V", True
'------------------- RELEASE THE LEFT MOUSE CLICK
mouse_event MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&
'------------------- +1 to the X value so the cursor moves again
UserForm1.TextBox1.Value = UserForm1.TextBox1.Value + 1
'------------------- NEW CURSOR POSISTION
SetCursorPos UserForm1.TextBox1.Value, 413
'------------------- REPEAT THE WHOLE PROCESS OVER AGAIN
DoEvents
Loop