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Hi all,
I am hoping someone can solve this little problem. I have a workboo that has a footer changing all the time and the users arent to computer literate, especially at changing footers. I would like to automate the process with possibly a prompt box o pop-up where a user simply inserts the footer info. It can be triggere upon opening or a command button??? Please, any ideas????? Cheers!!! -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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Sure! Just use the InputBox function in the Workbook_Open event of the
ThisWorkbook object, like so: Option Explicit Public strFooter As String Private Sub Workbook_Open() strFooter = InputBox("Please enter the footer:") End Sub Regards, Wes |
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Hi Wes,
Thank you!!!! Does the information typed into the input box actually copy as a heade because nothing transferred when i typed in information. Cheers!! -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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Hello, gavmer!
Well, actually you do need a little more code to move the text from the input box to the header or footer. I wasn't sure I should get into that without knowing how many worksheets are in the workbook or which header/footer you wanted to change. Let's assume the workbook contains only one sheet and that you want to modify the center footer. Here's how that program code would look. Option Explicit Public strFooter As String Private Sub Workbook_Open() strFooter = InputBox("Please enter the footer:") ActiveSheet.PageSetup.CenterFooter = strFooter End Sub If you wish to modify any other of the headers or footers, just substitute one of the following keywords for ".CenterFooter" in the above example. .LeftHeader .CenterHeader .RightHeader .LeftFooter .RightFooter If the workbook contains two or more worksheets, you'll have to specify the name of the one you want to change, as in the following example. Option Explicit Public strFooter As String Private Sub Workbook_Open() strFooter = InputBox("Please enter the footer:") Sheets("your worksheet name").PageSetup.CenterFooter = strFooter End Sub I hope this explains it better. Regards, Wes |
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Hi all,
I have another problem unfortunately. This code is listed within template: Option Explicit Public strFooter As String Private Sub Workbook_Open() strFooter = InputBox("Please enter the footer:") Sheets("your worksheet name").PageSetup.CenterFooter = strFooter End Sub I would like for this to apply only when the template is opened and no when the saved workbook is opened. problem is the footer is a referenc and when a user opens the workbook, the original reference from th template can be altered. Any ideas?? -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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Option Explicit
Private Sub Workbook_Open() Dim strFooter As String if me.path = "" then 'it's never been saved, so it's a template strFooter = InputBox("Please enter the footer:") Sheets("your worksheet name").PageSetup.CenterFooter = strFooter end if End Sub (I moved the strFooter to inside the procedure. From your snippet, it looked like it was local to that procedure.) "gavmer <" wrote: Hi all, I have another problem unfortunately. This code is listed within a template: Option Explicit Public strFooter As String Private Sub Workbook_Open() strFooter = InputBox("Please enter the footer:") Sheets("your worksheet name").PageSetup.CenterFooter = strFooter End Sub I would like for this to apply only when the template is opened and not when the saved workbook is opened. problem is the footer is a reference and when a user opens the workbook, the original reference from the template can be altered. Any ideas??? --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for the assistance. Im having trouble implementing this. When place this code into my template and save it, it disappears when th template is opened next. The template should prompt the user each tim the template is opened. The tempate is basically the tool to attach reference in the footer and is not relevant to the workbook as it neve should be altered. Could you please assist?? Cheers!! -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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Are you placing it in the template or are you putting in a workbook based on
that template? Make sure you open the .xlt file--not File|new. "gavmer <" wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the assistance. Im having trouble implementing this. When i place this code into my template and save it, it disappears when the template is opened next. The template should prompt the user each time the template is opened. The tempate is basically the tool to attach a reference in the footer and is not relevant to the workbook as it never should be altered. Could you please assist?? Cheers!!! --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ -- Dave Peterson |
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Dave, you must pardon my idiocy. I have a copy on my desktop i as usin
but was saving the changes as a template which defaulted to the fil located in my templates folder....not the desktop item!!!!! All is ok but i have another request, how do i save the formatting i font size: size 9, arial, bold italic.....it seems to be defaulting to size 12?? Thanks again Dave!! -- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com |
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I've never had a problem saving the font attributes.
If you're trying to set this for each cell in the worksheet, make sure you select your range first (ctrl-A to get all the cells), then save (to the correct spot <vvbg). (ctrl-A twice in xl2003) "gavmer <" wrote: Dave, you must pardon my idiocy. I have a copy on my desktop i as using but was saving the changes as a template which defaulted to the file located in my templates folder....not the desktop item!!!!! All is ok but i have another request, how do i save the formatting ie font size: size 9, arial, bold italic.....it seems to be defaulting to size 12?? Thanks again Dave!!! --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ -- Dave Peterson |
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