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[one_more_cave_dweller]

I have 2 macros in a workbook that are each ran by clicking a button. Is there a way to not allow the user to run one macro until the other has ran?

Thanks ray:

 

[CraigM]

Are the buttons from the "Forms" or the "Controls" toolbar?

 

[Kent Petty]

You could set the default "visible" property of the 2nd button to "False", then have excection of the first button cause the "visible" property of the second button to be set to true. I.e.:

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
CommandButton2.Visible = True

End Sub

Cheers,

Kent in Alaska

 

[CraigM]

Or the same but with the Enabled property, so that the button is still visible, but is "greyed out" and can't be clicked. Depends how you want it to work.

 

[Kent Petty]

Good point Craig. I'm normally working with applications that are used on slate computers out of doors, so sometimes it's hard to tell if a button or checkbox is greyed out due to the bright light conditions....I tend to use the visible property instead as a result.

Cheers,

Kent

 

[one_more_cave_dweller]

It is a button from the forms toolbar. I'm very new to this, could you please elaborate on where I would ad the code. I think greying out the button would work best for me.

Thank you so much for your help!

 

[CraigM]

OK. To do this you're going to have to use the button from the controls toolbar. These are more complicated, but correspondingly more useful.

Add two buttons from the controls toolbar. These will have the default captions CommandButton1 and 2 respectively. Right click CommandButton1 and click “Properties”. This is the list of properties of the button you can change. Change the “Caption” property to whatever you want to appear on the button. Do the same for CommandButton2, but this time also change the “Enabled” property to false.

Now for the code. Right click CommandButton1 and select “View Code”. The VBE will open and you should see this:

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

End Sub

Between these two lines of code type the following (replace “YourMacroName” with the name of your macro):

Call YourMacroName
CommandButton2.Enabled = True

Close the VBE. Then, in Excel, Exit Design Mode by clicking button on the controls toolbar with the blue set square, ruler and pencil. You must always enter Design Mode to alter controls.

It should be all ready to go. You’ll probably already realise how much more useful these can be than the “Form” buttons.