The limits for the Spin Button are that the value is to be a whole number between 0 and 30,000 and the Incremental Change can be any whole number between 1 and 30,000.įor now, set the Current Value to 50, Minimum Value to 0, Maximum Value to 300 and the Incremental Change to 10. You click the arrows to increase or decrease the value in the cell. Essentially what the Spin Button does is to place a value in a cell for you. In the Control tab are your options for configuring the Spin Button. To see how these work, right click the Spin Button and choose Format Control. To move or resize a control, right click it to select it and then size or move as required. Notice that you can drag your scrollbars so they are oriented either vertically or horizontally. It's vital that you select those in the Form Controls group not the ActiveX Controls as they work very differently and it's the Form Controls that we are using.ĭrag a Spin Button onto your worksheet and drag a Scroll Bar onto your worksheet too.
To see the tools, choose Developer > Insert and then select either the Spin Button or the Scroll Bar tool from the Form Controls group. In Excel 2007 click the Office button, choose Excel Options and then enable the Show Developer tab in the Ribbon checkbox in the Popular group.
If you don't have this visible, in Excel 2010, choose File > Options > Customize Ribbon and in the second panel make sure that the Developer checkbox is selected. In Excel 2007 and Excel 2010, the spin buttons and scroll bars are accessible from the Developer tab. Today, I'll introduce you to using spin buttons and scroll bars and show you an way to add an interactive element to an Excel chart with a spin button. You can do this in a number of ways and one of them is to use a spin button or a scroll bar to do the work. Whenever your user has a discrete number of choices to make for inputting data into an Excel worksheet you can save time by automating how they enter this data.
Helen Bradley explains how to add interactive elements to an Excel worksheet using scroll bars and spin buttons.
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