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XL2000: How to Determine the Key Pressed Along with Mouse Button

Article ID: 213736

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213736

SUMMARY

Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel 2000 incorporates many more events for activating macros. Some of the new events include MouseDown, MouseUp, KeyDown, and KeyUp. One of the arguments returned by these particular events, Shift, denotes which key (SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT) on your keyboard is pressed when one of the aforementioned events is triggered.

This article provides a sample macro that shows how to use the Shift argument returned by the MouseDown event of a command button.

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Sample Macro Code

1. Save and close any open workbooks, and then open a new workbook.
2. Start the Visual Basic Editor (press ALT+F11).
3. On the Insert menu, click UserForm.
4. Add a command button to the UserForm.
5. Double-click the command button to display the Code window behind the UserForm.

6. Enter the following code for the MouseDown event for the command button:

   Private Sub CommandButton1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, _
      ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
   
      Select Case Shift
   
         Case 0
            MsgBox "No key pressed"
         Case 1
            MsgBox "SHIFT key pressed"
         Case 2
            MsgBox "CTRL key pressed"
         Case 3
            MsgBox "CTRL and SHIFT keys pressed"
         Case 4
            MsgBox "ALT key pressed"
         Case 5
            MsgBox "ALT and SHIFT keys pressed"
         Case 6
            MsgBox "CTRL and ALT keys pressed"
         Case 7
            MsgBox "CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keys pressed"
   
      End Select
   
   End Sub
                       

7. Run the UserForm.
8. Click the command button with any combination (or none at all) of the CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keys pressed as you click with your mouse.
   
   A message box appears listing the buttons you pressed.
9. Close the UserForm.

The following table outlines the values of the Shift argument:

   Value of Shift
   argument         Keys Pressed
   -------------------------------------
   0                no keys pressed
   1                SHIFT
   2                CTRL
   3                SHIFT and CTRL
   4                ALT
   5                ALT and SHIFT
   6                ALT and CTRL
   7                ALT, SHIFT, and CTRL
                

REFERENCES

For more information about the MouseDown or MouseUp events, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type mousedown in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

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