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Steve Jacobs

Thx Tim.

-- Steve

"Tim Zych" wrote:

For an ActiveX button:

SheetObj.CommandButton1...

where SheetObj is Sheet1 (internal sheet name), Worksheets("Sheet1"), or
ActiveSheet

For a Forms button:

SheetObj.Buttons("Button1")...

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"Steve Jacobs" wrote in message
...
I'm just beginning to enter the world of VBA programming, trying to do
something in Excel.

I created a Forms-control button on a worksheet, and wrote a macro for it
within a module. (I.e., the button_click event is within a module.)

I then decided I wanted the button to be accessible and visible from every
worksheet in the workbook. Not seeing any easy or obvious way to have
Excel
automatically keep the button on all worksheets (other than to manually
add
it to every sheet myself, and make sure it was added programmatically if
the
user added a new sheet), I created a toolbar button and associated the
toolbar button with the same macro.

Here's where I'm stumped:
If I'm in the module that contains the macro, I can enable or disable the
button by writing button1.enabled = true (or false).

From the workbook or any other sheet or module, I cannot figure out how to
identify or reference the button.

I tried creating Public functions within the module that handle the
enable/disable, but they still fail with an 'Object required' error when
called from outside of the module.

Anybody here know how I can get this working?

Thanks