AboutStuart Resnick Expertise I can answer questions relating to MS Excel formulas, or to programming with vba (Visual Basic for Applications) in the Excel environment.
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Experience As a consultant, I've designed Excel tools since the 90s, working for the Federal Reserve Bank, AT&T, and (currently) Gap Inc.
Education/Credentials My only "education" comes from 2 decades of doing spreadsheet/programming work, with major SF Bay Area corporations such as AT&T, Federal Reserve Bank, and Gap Inc.
Question Stuart,
I have a user form where I would like t set a default value in a text box based on previous user input. The process looks like this so far. User input: place component x at minimum of A ft deep and maximum of B feet deep. Program: works out optimum depth and writes to excel then re-opens userform to allow user to place next component. I would like to update the minimum depth to have a default value of the the next round number below the previous actual set depth. That is to say if the actual set depth was 123ft I would like the default min depth the next time the form opens to show as 125ft. Can you help? I think I know how to write the rounding function, but I dont know how to add the value as a default to the textbox which can be dynamically updated. Thanks
Answer Example: you have TextBox1 in UserForm1. When UserForm1 opens, you want this textbox to default to the value that's in A1 of Sheet1.
Open the UserForm in Visual Basic Editor. Double-click on the UserForm to get to the vba code attached to the form. Then add this code:
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Me.TextBox1.Value = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("a1").Value
End Sub
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