Comma in TextBox Problem (Spanish)
 

I have a US created spreadsheet with VBA that has a form
with a textbox, that sets the default value to a cell
value

example:
me.textbox1.value = sheets("WT").range("A1").value

The number in A1 is 10.85

When run in a Spanish system with a spanish version the
10.85 is shown as 10,85.

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks,

Jeff B

Comma in TextBox Problem (Spanish)
 

Jeff B wrote:
I have a US created spreadsheet with VBA that has a form
with a textbox, that sets the default value to a cell
value

example:
me.textbox1.value = sheets("WT").range("A1").value

The number in A1 is 10.85

When run in a Spanish system with a spanish version the
10.85 is shown as 10,85.

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks,

Jeff B
Microsoft has International settings that can control things like:
decimal (. or ,), date formatting (month/day/year or day/month/year).
They can be set for the entire operating system in Regional and
Language Options (WinXPPro - earlier was International IIRC) in the
Control Panel.

Different programs support these settings to different degrees. Excel
supports them very much. It seems that your Spanish system has the
decimal displayed as a comma. No big worries - the underlying value
remains unchanged. It's only formatting. Or, the .Value property is
unaffected - only the .Text property.

Finally, Excel allows you to override this behavior in Tools | Options
| Internation (tab) - uncheck Use System Separators, then specify
exactly what you want the decimal points to be. (This is an
application level setting.)

Hope this helps,

Matthew

Comma in TextBox Problem (Spanish)
 

-----Original Message-----
Jeff B wrote:
I have a US created spreadsheet with VBA that has a
form
with a textbox, that sets the default value to a cell
value

example:
me.textbox1.value = sheets("WT").range("A1").value

The number in A1 is 10.85

When run in a Spanish system with a spanish version the
10.85 is shown as 10,85.

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks,

Jeff B
Microsoft has International settings that can control
things like:
decimal (. or ,), date formatting (month/day/year or
day/month/year).
They can be set for the entire operating system in
Regional and
Language Options (WinXPPro - earlier was International
IIRC) in the
Control Panel.

Different programs support these settings to different
degrees. Excel
supports them very much. It seems that your Spanish
system has the
decimal displayed as a comma. No big worries - the
underlying value
remains unchanged. It's only formatting. Or, the .Value
property is
unaffected - only the .Text property.

Finally, Excel allows you to override this behavior in
Tools | Options
| Internation (tab) - uncheck Use System Separators, then
specify
exactly what you want the decimal points to be. (This is
an
application level setting.)

Hope this helps,

Matthew


Matthew,

Thanks for the info.

In the third paragraph you mention a setting in Excel. I
cannot finf this setting in Excel 97 or Excel 2000. Is
this in a newer copy of Excel?

Thanks,

Jeff

Comma in TextBox Problem (Spanish)
 

Tom Ogilvy wrote:
xl2002 only I believe.

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Jeff B." wrote in message
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Matthew,

Thanks for the info.

In the third paragraph you mention a setting in Excel. I
cannot finf this setting in Excel 97 or Excel 2000. Is
this in a newer copy of Excel?

Thanks,

Jeff




Sorry - Forgot to mention that. Tom's probably right as I am running
Excel 2002.

Matthew