Pete

What kind of controls are you using: lables, textboxes, comboboxes,
checkboxes? How are the users selecting the right answer? Is there any
code behind the form?

Generally, if you use ControlSource, and changes you make to the control
will be written back to the cell and any changes you make to the cell will
be written to the control. I can't tell from your description where the
controls are being changed that would cause that.

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"Pete" wrote in message
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I'm new to using VBA with Excel--I have Office 2003. I'm building a form
in
VBA that will have random multiple-choice questions inserted into it from
a
VLookup function's results in the accompanying spreadsheet. There is a
big
table with the questions in column C and the 4 answer choices in columns d
to
g, and the vlookups are on the top in cells C3 to G3.

I tried naming the cells that have the Q&A VLookup formulas as named
ranges
in the spreadsheet, and then referencing the ranges in to Control Source
of
the Properties box for each Q&A caption on the form. It works once but
then
values get written in place of the VLookup formulas. Same thing happened
when I inserted the cell's names in ControlSource Property boxes--the
cells
in the spreadsheet get the vlookup clobbered by the value of the first
result....and the vlookup formulae ares no longer there.

I tried changing ENABLED from true to false in the Properties box, and
also
changed LOCKED from False to True...still I get the same problem.

I know I may be doing this in a not-very-elegant way--it does not need to
be
a "hardened" program, just a prototype for a concept.

Thanks!