Reference Grouped ActiveX Controls Using a Variable

Sam Pickard

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I have 32 checkboxes in a few different groups, each box is named EasyReviewXXXXXCheckbox where the Xs is a different 5 letter code for each box. I'm trying to find a way to reference them using a variable without ungrouping them. The code below seems to skip over any objects that are grouped, I know that if need be I can just ungroup them but If there's an easy way to include grouped objects I would much rather keep them together. Thanks in advance for any help.


Code:
Sub test()
    Dim obj As Object
    With ActiveSheet
        For Each obj In .OLEObjects
            If Left(obj.Name, 10) = "EasyReview" And Right(ct.Name, 5) = "Check" Then MsgBox (Mid(ct.Name, 10, 5))
        Next obj
    End With
End Sub
 

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You could do something like this
Code:
   Dim shp                    As Shape
   Dim oGrp                   As GroupShapes
   Dim shpSub                 As Shape

   With ActiveSheet
      For Each shp In .Shapes
         On Error Resume Next
         Set oGrp = shp.GroupItems
         On Error GoTo 0
         If Not oGrp Is Nothing Then
            For Each shpSub In shp.GroupItems
               If Left(shpSub.Name, 10) = "EasyReview" And Right(shpSub.Name, 5) = "Check" Then MsgBox (Mid(shpSub.Name, 11, 5))
            Next shpSub
            Set oGrp = Nothing
         End If
      Next shp
   End With
 
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Thank you very much, that answered my question, unfortunately I made the assumption that if .name worked .value would also work and it doesn't seem like that is the case. Do you know if there's a way to pull out the value when using Shape? This is what I thought would work but the line in red gives me an "Object doesn't support this property or method" error.


Code:
   Dim shp                    As Shape
   Dim oGrp                   As GroupShapes
   Dim shpSub                 As Shape
   With ActiveSheet
      For Each shp In .Shapes
         On Error Resume Next
         Set oGrp = shp.GroupItems
         On Error GoTo 0
         If Not oGrp Is Nothing Then
            For Each shpSub In shp.GroupItems
               If Left(shpSub.Name, 10) = "EasyReview" And Right(shpSub.Name, 5) = "Check" Then
                  MsgBox (Mid(shpSub.Name, 11, 5))
[COLOR=#ff0000]                  If shpSub.Value = True Then MsgBox (Mid(shpSub.Name, 11, 5) & " Is True")
[/COLOR]               End If
            Next shpSub
            Set oGrp = Nothing
         End If
      Next shp   
   End With
 
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Nevermind, I figured out a way around this so I don't need to refer to each checkbox. Thank you very much for your help though RoryA
 
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Try:
Code:
If shpSub.oleformat.object.object.value = True
 
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