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How to copy text from a TextBox in a ActiveSheet to a variable
This worked for me:
Sub Tester12() Dim x As Integer Dim txtBox1 As TextBox Dim theText As Variant ' I've could put a string as well ActiveSheet.Shapes("Text Box 41").Select ' to Set txtBox1 equal to the active sheet's TextBox ' this is the fist part of my problem I get a type 'mismatch on that line. ' change Shapes to TextBoxes Set txtBox1 = ActiveSheet.TextBoxes("Text Box 41") 'I've seen a different version on the Microsoft support 'web site that is using: ActiveSheet.DrawingObjects("Text 'Box 41") but my version of excel(excel XP) doesn't 'recognize that method. 'I did try to resolve the problem by using the Selection 'method with the following lines: For x = 1 To Selection.Characters.Count Step 250 theText = theText & Selection.Characters(Start:=x, _ Length:=250).Text ' another type mismatch here Next Debug.Print theText Debug.Print Len(theText) End Sub or without selecting: Sub Tester12aa() Dim x As Integer Dim txtBox1 As TextBox Dim theText As Variant ' I've could put a string as well Set txtBox1 = ActiveSheet.TextBoxes("Text Box 41") For x = 1 To txtBox1.Characters.Count Step 250 theText = theText & txtBox1.Characters(Start:=x, _ Length:=250).Text ' another type mismatch here Next Debug.Print theText Debug.Print Len(theText) End Sub -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Jay" wrote in message ... Even if the question seem simple at first I'm having quite a problem solving it. I have a TextBox in my ActiveSheet and trying to user VBA to access the object and copy the text into a variable. VBA is always returning the run-time error 13: type mismatch. Here's my code: Dim x As Integer Dim txtBox1 As TextBox Dim theText As Variant ' I've could put a string as well ActiveSheet.Shapes("Text Box 41").Select ' to Set txtBox1 equal to the active sheet's TextBox ' this is the fist part of my problem I get a type mismatch on that line. Set txtBox1 = ActiveSheet.Shapes("Text Box 41") 'I've seen a different version on the Microsoft support web site that is using: ActiveSheet.DrawingObjects("Text Box 41") but my version of excel(excel XP) doesn't recognize that method. 'I did try to resolve the problem by using the Selection method with the following lines: For x = 1 To Selection.Characters.Count Step 250 theText = Selection.Characters(Start:=x, Length:=250).Text ' another type mismatch here Next So I'm open to suggestion if someone would know a way to copy the text value of a TextBox into a variable |
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