lezawang

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Hi
I just watched a video. He created a form then inserted a label and a command button. Then he made the label Caption =1, then clicked on command button and wrote the code below.
So when a user click the button the caption will increment by 1
Why is that? I changed the caption from 1 to Hello and the code stopped working. I thought the caption is a text, even when I type 1 it should be considered as a text, no? Thank you so much.

Code:
Private Sub myadd_Click()
myform.mycount.Caption = myform.mycount.Caption + 1
End Sub
 
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Yes, it's alway text, so must transform in integer/double before, like:
Code:
myform.mycount.Caption = Cint(myform.mycount.Caption) + 1
 
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I tested here and it worked.
Note that first you should ser the initial caption as a number: like 1. cannot start with "Hello".
 
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Hi
I just watched a video. He created a form then inserted a label and a command button. Then he made the label Caption =1, then clicked on command button and wrote the code below.
So when a user click the button the caption will increment by 1
Why is that? I changed the caption from 1 to Hello and the code stopped working. I thought the caption is a text, even when I type 1 it should be considered as a text, no? Thank you so much.

Code:
Private Sub myadd_Click()
myform.mycount.Caption = myform.mycount.Caption + 1
End Sub

Excel converts numbers stored in the textbox as numeric values, but the texts stored in the texbox can not convert them.


If you want to start the textbox with text like "Hello", then you could do something like this:

Code:
Private Sub myadd_Click()
    myform.mycount.Caption = Val(myform.mycount.Caption) + 1
End Sub


The Val( ) function converts the text to 0, but if a stored number exists then it leaves it as a numeric value.
 
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I'm glad to help you. Thanks for the feedback.
 
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VBA tries to coerce the caption to a number because you are adding a number. If you were to use + "1" instead of + 1, you'd get a very different outcome. ;)
 
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