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    Trying to Print User-Selected Sheets from a button on one sheet.

    Hello, everyone.

    I am new to this forum and vaguely familiar with VB (had an intro to it a while back), and I simply need to figure out why something isn't working like it should.

    I have an Excel Workbook (2007) with approximately 20 sheets. I set it up so that it is navigable using buttons with macros behind them, and so that only one sheet is visible at a time -to move from one sheet to a different one, the user needs to go back to a main selection sheet (a "switchboard form", if you like). Each sheet has a button to print that sheet, and all of that works perfectly.

    What I am trying to add is a button on the "MASTER" sheet that allows the user to select which sheet he/she wants to print without going to the sheet, and also allows them to print more than one sheet with a single action.

    The best code I have found for this thus far was a piece that I am posting here. It purports to do exactly what I want, but hangs up just before the print. It is meant to create a dialog box on the fly with checkboxes representing the sheets in the workbook. The user selects one or more checkbox(es), then clicks "OK", which is supposed to print the selected sheets.

    The error comes after the sheet(s) are selected, and "OK" is pressed.

    Microsoft KB had a solution to this, but none of the workarounds (they list 4) seem to apply to what I am doing.

    Unfortunately, I cannot see replies to this thread until I get home in the evenings (my network policy at work has blocked this site), and I will not be able to post the workbook because it contains Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on a number of people.

    I can post the code that is giving me trouble, as it is already in the public domain and I will bold and CAP the line that is highlighted when I go into the debugger.

    Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

    The code follows:

    Option Explicit
    
    Sub SelectSheets()
        Dim i As Integer
        Dim TopPos As Integer
        Dim SheetCount As Integer
        Dim PrintDlg As DialogSheet
        Dim CurrentSheet As Worksheet
        Dim cb As CheckBox
        Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    
    '   Check for protected workbook
        If ActiveWorkbook.ProtectStructure Then
            MsgBox "Workbook is protected.", vbCritical
            Exit Sub
        End If
    
    '   Add a temporary dialog sheet
        Set CurrentSheet = ActiveSheet
        Set PrintDlg = ActiveWorkbook.DialogSheets.Add
    
        SheetCount = 0
    
    '   Add the checkboxes
    
        TopPos = 40
        For i = 1 To ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets.Count
            Set CurrentSheet = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(i)
    '       Skip empty sheets and hidden sheets
            If Application.CountA(CurrentSheet.Cells) <> 0 And _
                CurrentSheet.Visible Then
                SheetCount = SheetCount + 1
                PrintDlg.CheckBoxes.Add 78, TopPos, 150, 16.5
                    PrintDlg.CheckBoxes(SheetCount).Text = _
                        CurrentSheet.Name
                TopPos = TopPos + 13
            End If
        Next i
    
    '   Move the OK and Cancel buttons
        PrintDlg.Buttons.Left = 240
    
    '   Set dialog height, width, and caption
        With PrintDlg.DialogFrame
            .Height = Application.Max _
                (68, PrintDlg.DialogFrame.Top + TopPos - 34)
            .Width = 230
            .Caption = "Select sheets to print"
    
        End With
    
    '   Change tab order of OK and Cancel buttons
    '   so the 1st option button will have the focus
        PrintDlg.Buttons("Button 2").BringToFront
        PrintDlg.Buttons("Button 3").BringToFront
    
    '   Display the dialog box
        CurrentSheet.Activate
        Application.ScreenUpdating = True
        If SheetCount <> 0 Then
            If PrintDlg.Show Then
                For Each cb In PrintDlg.CheckBoxes
                    If cb.Value = xlOn Then
                        Worksheets(cb.Caption).Activate
                        ACTIVESHEET.PRINTOUT
    '                   ActiveSheet.PrintPreview 'for debugging
    
                    End If
                Next cb
            End If
        Else
            MsgBox "All worksheets are empty."
        End If
    
    '   Delete temporary dialog sheet (without a warning)
        Application.DisplayAlerts = False
        PrintDlg.Delete
    
    '   Reactivate original sheet
        CurrentSheet.Activate
    End Sub
    ---End of Code---

    Thank you again for any help you can provide.
    Last edited by rattler418; 10-30-2011 at 08:12 PM. Reason: Title Edit

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