Rick,

You are right. See my previous message to Dave. His suggestion and yours
worked great.

Bill

"Rick Rothstein" wrote in message
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In this case my combo box is a single cell named cboMonth.

A cell and a combobox are not the same thing.

Maybe the OP means the drop down list that results from a Validation List
being assigned to a cell? If that is the case, then I would think this
assignment would do what he wants...

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("cboMonth").Value = MonthName(Month(Now), True)

where the actual Name assigned to the cell would be used in place of the
cboMonth example name I used.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
A cell and a combobox are not the same thing.

The combobox is an object that floats over the worksheet (a collection of
cells). The cells are updated by typing in the formulabar. That's
different
from clicking on the combobox, using the dropdown and selecting something
from a
list.

And if the this is the activesheet when the workbook opens, then the
sheet is
not activated--because it's already active.

If you only want the default month value to go into that combobox when
the
workbook is opened -- not each time the user activates a different
worksheet in
the same workbook and then comes back to this worksheet, you can dump the
worksheet_activate event.

Put this in a a general module:

Option Explicit
Sub auto_Open()
Worksheets("Sheet1").CBXMonth.Value = Month(Date)
End Sub

Change the name of the sheet to what you need.

If you really wanted a cell (not a combobox):

Option Explicit
Sub auto_Open()
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("cboMonth").Value = Month(Date)
End Sub

(You could also tie into the Workbook_Open event that's located in the
ThisWorkbook module.)

wmdmurphy wrote:

Dave,

In this case my combo box is a single cell named cboMonth. The user can
manually select a month with this combo box. So I suppose that means I
can't put a formula directly in this cell since it would interfere with
the
manual month selection.

I've tried the following code in the activate event of the worksheet to
put
a default value into the cell:

Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()

Stop

Me.Range("cboMonth").Value = month(date)

End Sub

I thought this event would fire when the user opens the workbook, but
when I
open it nothing seems to happen. It seems that the Stop should cause
execution to stop, but it doesn't. And cboMonth does not get updated.

Do you think I need to somehow be more specific about which worksheet
contains the combo box (cell)? It's located on Sheet1.

Bill

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
You sometimes write Cell and sometimes Combobox. If you really meant
a
cell
that was named (insert|name), you could use:

me.range("MonthCell").value = month(date)

or just use a formula directly in that cell:

=month(today())

But I bet you really meant a combobox.

So you can ignore this message.

wmdmurphy wrote:

Dave,

I took your advice and moved all the code into Module1. And I
renamed
the
month and year cells to avoid confusion.

In the worksheet activate code can I now put code like the following
so
that
on startup the default value will be put into the appropriate cell:

me.cboMonth.value = month(date)

Bill

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
I started a message and didn't delete the response that I started.

This is the same message, but I've deleted the junk that should
have
been
deleted earlier:

I didn't mean a general section of the worksheet module. I really
meant a
new
general module--insert|Module in the VBE.

But the real problem is now twofold. First, you put the code in
the
wrong
spot
for the way it's written. Second, that name of the combobox
interferes
with the
name of the VBA function (month).

So you have a few ways of resolving the issue.

#1. You can keep the getmonth function in the worksheet module.
But
you
have
to rename that combobox to something nicer (CBOMonth, maybe???).

#2. You can keep the getmonth function in the worksheet module,
but
change the
function so that it knows to use VBA's Month function--not
something
assocated
with your combobox:

Me.Month.Value = VBA.Month(Date)

(It'll work, but I don't like this one!)

#3. You can move the function to a General module and leave
everything
as-is.
(I'd still rename that combobox, if I were you!)

========
If that function is only called by procedures in that worksheet's
module,
it
wouldn't bother me to keep it in that module.

But I couldn't live with that combobox having the name of Month.
(Have
I
said
that I'd change it enough!) I think it's just screaming for
someone to
get
confused by it.

And for something like this, I wouldn't use a function at all. I'd
just
use:

me.cboMonth.value = month(date)

I think the call to the function is just clutter for something so
straightforward.

Dave Peterson wrote:
<<snipped

wmdmurphy wrote:

Dave,

Yes, I placed the functions in the General section of the
worksheet,
and
also tried placing them in the General section of the workbook,
but
got
the
error message either way.

Month and Year in my worksheet are both combo box dropdowns so
the
user
can
only enter valid months and years. But I would like to default
them
when
the workbook is opened to values like May and 2009, based on the
current
date.

You are right that the Me!Month comes from my Access programming
background.
In Excel how would I reference the Month cell for example, if it
can
only
accept values from the dropdown list?

Bill

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
Did you put the GetMonth in a General module?

But I'm confused about what Me!Month is supposed to be.

If you're working inside a userform and have a textbox named
Month,
then
maybe:

Me.Month.value = getmonth

(the exclamation is a holdover from your Access days???)

If you're trying to use that function in a cell in the same
workbook
that
owns
that function:

=getmonth()

If you're trying to use that function in a cell in a different
workbook:

=book1.xls!getmonth()



wmdmurphy wrote:

I would like to add some VBA functionality to a workbook in
order
to
set
a
default value for a cell named Month and another named Year.
I've
opened
the visual basic editor and added some code like the
following:

Function GetMonth()
GetMonth = Month(Date)
End Function

Me!Month = GetMonth()

When I try to run these functions I get an error message "Sub
or
function
not defined". Are there other steps needed to activate
visual
basic
in
this
workbook?

Also, can named cells be referred to as Me as in the above
example?

Bill

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