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creating a Help tool thingy (msgbox?)
I am looking to create a tool that will allow a user to click on a button
which wil ask certain questions and depending on the answers ask other questions until it reaches a conclusion. i have been toying with message boxes, but i am not sure this is the best way to proceed. any suggestions?? also any tips for places i can 'steal' code from. ta, andrew |
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creating a Help tool thingy (msgbox?)
I think a userform is a better solution here; I envision a form that has a
text box at the top for instructions and the question to be answered and either a list/combobox or radio buttons for the answers. When the user selects an answer the info on the form could change dynamically (through your code) to list the next appropriate question in the textbox and the next set of answers to choose, and so on until the final answer is determined. You would have some work to do to populate the form with the proper questions and answers (and perhaps to change the number of answers available from one question to the next), but I think using messageboxes would make that even more cumbersome. If it were up to me, I would probably put the list of questions, answers, and a pointer to the next question in a list on one of my worksheets to use as a sort of database to use to create the form and modify it on the fly - it would save on hard-coding the questions and answers into my code and would make modification easier down the road - e.g: Question1 Answer1A 2 Answer1B 3 Answer1C 4 Question2 Answer2A 5 Answer2B 6 Answer2C 7 Answer2D 8 .... - This would indicate that if user chooses AnswerA to question 1, go to question in row 2, if the answer to question 2 was c, goto question in row 7, etc... - K Dales "westg" wrote: I am looking to create a tool that will allow a user to click on a button which wil ask certain questions and depending on the answers ask other questions until it reaches a conclusion. i have been toying with message boxes, but i am not sure this is the best way to proceed. any suggestions?? also any tips for places i can 'steal' code from. ta, andrew |
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Hi Westg,
any tips for places i can 'steal' code from. The NG archives provide a pre-eminent source. Also see: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/topic.htm http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html http://www.rondebruin.nl/ http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/index.htm http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/links/index.htm http://www.dicks-blog.com/ http://www.erlandsendata.no/english/ http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/index.html http://peltiertech.com/ http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.html The above sites provide links to many other useful resources. --- Regards, Norman "westg" wrote in message ... I am looking to create a tool that will allow a user to click on a button which wil ask certain questions and depending on the answers ask other questions until it reaches a conclusion. i have been toying with message boxes, but i am not sure this is the best way to proceed. any suggestions?? also any tips for places i can 'steal' code from. ta, andrew |
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