Multi Line on Combo Box

[jon_poole]

Hi folks,

I'm using a combo box in a userform to allow user selection of text strings. Unfortunately some of the text strings are very long and keeping them on one line looks remarkably daft.

Searching through previous posts on this (frankly quite brillaint) board threw up the mutliline property for text boxes, but I can't find an equivalent for combo boxes, is this something that can be coded or am I trying the impossible?

any help/advice would be much appreciated!

many thanks.

 

[Damon Ostrander]

Hi jon_poole,

I don't believe that a combobox or listbox control can wrap lines--the reason probably being that each line would appear to be a separate selectable item.

What I suggest you do is use a textbox with wrapping to display the currently selected item in the combobox. That way you can display the items in the combobox with a narrow width, but when the item is selected you can see the entire text. Use code such as the following:

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
TextBox1.Text = ComboBox1.Value
End Sub

And you will need to set both the MultiLine and WordWrap properties of the textbox to TRUE.

 

[jon_poole]

Yes! that's great.

I was edging towards giving up on the userform and just validating it straight to a sheet (which would have been much less pretty and much more of a pig to deal with amending the data).

cheers for the advice!

Jon