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Article ID: 161598 - View products that this article applies
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This article was previously published under Q161598For a
Microsoft Excel for Mac version of this article, see 185388
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185388/ ) .
This article describes methods of populating a ComboBox or
ListBox control.
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You can use a control, such as a combo box or a list box, on a
user form. In Microsoft Excel, you can use these controls in the
worksheet. The methods forpopulating the controls are similar. The
examples in this article use controls on a user form.
Method 1: How to Link a Combo Box or List Box to Cells on an
Excel Worksheet
1. Create a new workbook in Microsoft Excel. On Sheet1, type the
following:
2. Press ALT+F11 to start the Microso ft Excel Visual Basic
Editor.3. On the Insert menu, click UserForm .4. Create a ComboBox
control and a ListBox control on the user form.5. If the Properties
window is not visible, click Properties Window on the View menu.6.
Click the ComboBox and scroll to RowSource in the Properties window
.
The window is divided into two sections. The left section
contains the name of the proper ty for the control. The right
section contains the value of theproperty. Click in the right
section of RowSource and type " sheet1!a1:a4 " (without the
quotation marks).
7. Click the ListBox and scroll to RowSource in the Properties
window. Click in the right section of RowSource and type "
sheet1!b1:b4 " (without the quotationmarks).
NOTE : If you omit the sheet reference, the ComboBox and ListBox
controls are populated with the data from the cells from the
worksheet that is activewhen you run the user form. To ensure that
the data from the same worksheet is always used to populate the
user form, include the sheet reference asshown in the examples. To
populate the user form with data from the active sheet, do not
include the sheet reference in the RowSource. When you do this,
the macro uses data from the active sheet to populate the user
form.8. Run the user form by clicking Run and then clicking Run
Sub/UserForm .
One, Two, Three, and Four appear in the ComboBox control; and
Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue appear in the ListBox control.
Methdod 2: How to Use a Visual Basic Macro to Populate a Combo
Box or List Box
1. Open a Microsoft Office Application such as Microsoft Excel
or Word.2. Press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic Editor.3. On the
Insert menu, click UserForm .4. Create a ComboBox and a ListBox
control on the user form.5. Right-click the user form and click
View Code . The Code window for the user form appears. Click
Initialize in the Procedure list (on the right side).
The first and last lines of the subroutine are automatically
entered, and the insertion point is automatically placed between
these two lines.6. Type the following code:
How to add data to a ComboBox control or aListBox control in
Excel or Word
SUMMARY
MORE INFORMATION
A1: One B1: Red A2: Two B2: Green A3: Three B3: Yellow A4: Four
B4: Blue
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This code should appear between the lines "Sub
UserForm_Initialize()" and "End Sub".7. On the Run menu, click Run
Sub/UserForm to run the user form.
One, Two, Three, and Four appear in the ListBox control; and
Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue appear in the ComboBox control.
For more information about user forms, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Visual Basic Help, type the following text:UserForm
Object
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "UserForm
Object" topic.
Article ID: 161598 - Last Review: August 19, 2010 - Revision:
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ListBox1.List = Array("One", "Two", "Three", "Four")
ComboBox1.List = Array("Red", "Green", "Yellow", "Blue")
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