Microsoft KB Archive/140625

= Unable to Set Formula Property of a Dialog Sheet Button =

Article ID: 140625

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0c
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0a for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q140625



SYMPTOMS
If you have a macro that attempts to set the formula property of a button on a dialog sheet, it may fail, and the following error message will be displayed:

Run time error '1005'

Unable to set the formula property of the button class.



WORKAROUND
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. To work around this problem, use one of the following methods.

  Method 1: Use Visual Basic for applications code to change the button's text property. To do this use the following example code: DialogSheets("Dialog1").Buttons("Button 1").Text = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Text where Dialog1 is the name of your dialog sheet, Button is the name of the button for which you are trying to change the text, and Sheet1,, is the name of your worksheet from which your Button will get its text.

NOTE: This code will not create a linking formula to cell A1 on Sheet1.  Method 2: Manually assign the formula to the button on the dialog sheet by doing the following:

 Click the button to select it. Click the formula bar. Enter the formula, for example =Sheet!$A$1.

This will create a linking formula to cell A1 on Sheet1, and when the contents of this cell is changed, what is displayed on the button is changed as well. </ul>

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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MORE INFORMATION
This behavior only occurs when the button is on a dialog sheet. This does not occur when the button is on a worksheet or a chart sheet.

Additional query words: 5.00a 5.00c XL

Keywords: kbbug kbpending kbprogramming KB140625

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