tHenks Jacob, your help is highly appreciated.

This all is part of a complex code creatring a sort of batch sending charts
from Excel to a PowerPoint presentation. That is all working fine now, but I
want to give the user the possibility to add comments to the charts.
Capturing the comment is okay now, but I have to transfer it to PowerPoint
once it is on the Excel sheet and the batch procedure is started. I tried to
do something like this :

If Comment = True Then

PPSlide.Shapes.AddTextbox(Type:=msoTextOrientation Horizontal,
Left:=100, Top:=100, Width:=200, Height:=50).TextFrame.TextRange.Text =
TheCommentBelongingToTheChart

End If

The code is nearly copied from Help in PowerPoint, but I get the message :

Named argument not found.

I think it has something to do with :

Type:=msoTextOrientationHorizontal

Any idea?


"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

'if you know the name..
Activesheet.oleobjects("TextBox1").object.text

OR
'if you have only one text box in the activesheet
Activesheet.oleobjects(1).object.text


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"Henk" wrote:

Great! Working.

But now the second step. How do I capture the text from the textbox in the
worksheet in a string variable to transfer it somewhere else?



"Jacob Skaria" wrote:

One way....

Dim obj As Object
Set obj = ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.TextB ox.1",
Link:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=528.75, Top:=204, Width:=432, _
Height:=77.25)

obj.Object.Text = "something"

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"Henk" wrote:

I want the text typed in by a user in a textbox on a userform to be
transferred to a textbox in the worksheet.

Capturing the typed text is easy :

Textbox.Value

Creating a textbox on the sheegt a bit more complex :

ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.TextB ox.1", Link:=False,
DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=528.75, Top:=204, Width:=432,
Height:=77.25).Select

But how do I get the Textbox.Value into the new created textbox?