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About Aidan Heritage
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I have provided first hand support since `95 for Microsoft Office majoring in Word and Excel - support for all versions from 2 onwards

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My background is in the insurance industry and call centre areas, but have been called upon to provide many varied solutions.

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I'm educated to UK A level standard, but as I left school some 30 years ago that is rather irrelevent - university of life has provided more of a background!

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Excel - Insertion point

Expert: Aidan Heritage - 11/7/2009

Question
assume that the insertion point is positioned at the beginning of the txtName text box. which one of following instructions will select the contents of the txtName text box?
txtName.SelAll=txtName.Text
txtName.SelLen=Length[txtName.Text]
txtName.SelLength=txtName.Text
txtName.SelLength=Len[txtName.Text]
thanks

Answer
technically none of them as it needs round not square brackets, also not a method I use myself, but a simple process of trial and error would reveal the answer - I mention this to help wih future assignments as this SEEMS to be an assigment - if you create a userform and put a textbox and a command button, behind the command button enter all the options - only one works as would be expected which is

txtname.SelLength = Len(txtname.Text)

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