Using ActiveX CheckBox Control to make a cell change colour and clear values

**drmit** · 08-19-2012, 07:25 PM

Hi everyone

I'm a total noob at VBA so please be nice

I'm developing a spreadsheet that has a series of ActiveX CheckBox controls.

With one in particular, I'm trying to get the checkbox to control what is displayed in a particular cell. What I want is this:

CheckBox checked: Change cell colour to red/pink, but only until a number is entered in it
CheckBox unchecked: Change cell colour back to 'no fill', and clear any values already typed in.

Here is the code I'm using:

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Please forgive the terrible flow of it all, as I said this is my first crack at this and the code has been cobbled together by reading a bunch of various posts, none of which I fully understand - my knowledge of syntax is next to nil at the moment, but I'm working on it!

Cheers

**Cutter** · 08-19-2012, 08:59 PM

@ drmit

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Thanks.

**royUK** · 08-20-2012, 02:08 AM

You can't do that with justa chckbox. Once run the code will not recognise when a number is entered. Why not use a WorkSheet event instead of the checkboxes.

**drmit** · 08-20-2012, 04:18 AM

Thanks for the tip Roy.

I considered trying to code it that way but I couldn't figure out how to only colour the cell when the checkbox is ticked from a WorkSheet event. It would be pretty straightforward to colour the cell depending on whether any text was entered using conditional formatting outside of VBA, but I guess it brings me back to my original question - how do I get the cell to change colours only when the checkbox is ticked?