I put the message boxes in, and the macro does run to completion. The text
however, still does not appear in the text box, and it is indeed a shape. I
noticed in the message boxes, some of the text returned in the cells is being
truncated when selected. Is it possible that I have exceded some sort of
character limit that is preventing my text from pasting into the text box?
if so, is it possible to overcome that limit? There is definately more text
retuning from the vlookup and it is present in the cell. When I print my
strTextBox buffer however, only a portion appears.
> Add the message boxes below and it should help you find where the
> problem is. If Box 3 shows nothing after the = sign the problem then
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John Michl - 23 Oct 2006 22:10 GMT
Yes, there are limites (255 characters, I think) but some work arounds.
I used this article awhile back to solve similar problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=148815
- John
www.johnmichl.com/exceltips.htm
> I put the message boxes in, and the macro does run to completion. The text
> however, still does not appear in the text box, and it is indeed a shape. I
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AJL - 24 Oct 2006 20:26 GMT
The code in the article you sent seems like it should work. However, the
macro will insert the text fine if the text in the cell is less than 255
characters, but still leaves the text box blank for strings larger than 255.
Here is what I am using...
Sub Cell_Text_To_TextBox()
' Dimension the variables.
Dim txtBox1 As TextBox
Dim theRange As Range, cell As Range
Dim startPos As Integer
Set wks1 = Worksheets("Patient1")
' Set txtBox1 equal to the active sheet's TextBox object. You can
' replace the ordinal number with your text box name in quotes.
' For example: ActiveSheet.DrawingObjects("Text 1")
Set txtBox1 = wks1.DrawingObjects("Text Box 36")
' Set a range on the active sheet equal to the range object text
' that you are interested in copying to the text box.
Set theRange = ActiveSheet.Range("D42:D72")
'Set the starting position for the text.
startPos = 1
' Create a For-Each construct to loop through the cells in the range.
For Each cell In theRange
' Populate the textbox with the cell values using the Characters
' method.
' Note: Chr(10) can be used to add a new line in the textbox for
' each cell.
txtBox1.Characters(Start:=startPos, _
Length:=Len(cell.Value)).Text = cell.Value & Chr(10)
' Update the startPos variable to keep track of where the next
' string of text will begin in the textbox.
startPos = startPos + Len(cell.Value) + 1
Next cell
End Sub
> Yes, there are limites (255 characters, I think) but some work arounds.
> I used this article awhile back to solve similar problems.
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PCLIVE - 24 Oct 2006 14:52 GMT
I think John is correct on the character limit of a cell being 255 before
the text begins to appear truncated. The text is still in the cell, but all
of it is not seen. However, I have had no problems with getting a textbox
to display all of the text when linking that cell. I tested this on a cell
that contains 2,136 characters. Though the text in the cell appears
trucated, the textbox displays all of the text as long as the textbox is
large enough and the properties are set for MultiLine and WordWrap.
To see if the issue has anything to do with the fact that the text is
formula generated, you might to cut and PasteSpecial (Values Only) to
another cell and see if linking to that cell changes anything.
Regards,
Paul
>I put the message boxes in, and the macro does run to completion. The text
> however, still does not appear in the text box, and it is indeed a shape.
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AJL - 07 Nov 2006 16:58 GMT
I did get this solution to work, however, the text I need displayed exists in
multiple cells, depending on values entered in the sheet and the resulting
vlookup. I could not find a way to link a control text box to a range of
cells. :(
> I think John is correct on the character limit of a cell being 255 before
> the text begins to appear truncated. The text is still in the cell, but all
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