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Active X text box using Excel 2003
I have an Excel workbook created in Excel 2003 being used by several hundred
people, most with Excel 2000, and they have no problems using a forms text box that is on the sheet for documentation. A handful of users who have Excel 2007 cannot use the textbox. When it is selected, it lets them drag it around, which they are not supposed to be able to do, but they cannot enter any text. I want to change the forms text box to an Active X. Whe I create the text box in 2007, it acts the way I want it to; they click on it and then can type. I cannot get it to work when I create the Active X text box in 2003. I set the properties the same in both files, but it didn't work. I have not knowingly worked with Active X controls before, so I'm sure there is something simple I am missing, or there is a key bit of knowledge that I don't have. Sorry for the rambling question, but I'm not even sure how to ask the question. Thanks. |
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Active X text box using Excel 2003
See if this site helps any: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc179188.aspx "covingj" wrote in message ... I have an Excel workbook created in Excel 2003 being used by several hundred people, most with Excel 2000, and they have no problems using a forms text box that is on the sheet for documentation. A handful of users who have Excel 2007 cannot use the textbox. When it is selected, it lets them drag it around, which they are not supposed to be able to do, but they cannot enter any text. I want to change the forms text box to an Active X. Whe I create the text box in 2007, it acts the way I want it to; they click on it and then can type. I cannot get it to work when I create the Active X text box in 2003. I set the properties the same in both files, but it didn't work. I have not knowingly worked with Active X controls before, so I'm sure there is something simple I am missing, or there is a key bit of knowledge that I don't have. Sorry for the rambling question, but I'm not even sure how to ask the question. Thanks. |
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Active X text box using Excel 2003
Thanks for anyone looking at this question. I found the answer, and it was simple. I had to take it out of design mode...duh. "covingj" wrote: I have an Excel workbook created in Excel 2003 being used by several hundred people, most with Excel 2000, and they have no problems using a forms text box that is on the sheet for documentation. A handful of users who have Excel 2007 cannot use the textbox. When it is selected, it lets them drag it around, which they are not supposed to be able to do, but they cannot enter any text. I want to change the forms text box to an Active X. Whe I create the text box in 2007, it acts the way I want it to; they click on it and then can type. I cannot get it to work when I create the Active X text box in 2003. I set the properties the same in both files, but it didn't work. I have not knowingly worked with Active X controls before, so I'm sure there is something simple I am missing, or there is a key bit of knowledge that I don't have. Sorry for the rambling question, but I'm not even sure how to ask the question. Thanks. |
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