Comments on: Challenge: Changing font of a forms checkbox

By: atsushi

atsushi — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:54:00 +0000

correction.
path is
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0ExcelOptions

By: atsushi

atsushi — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:12:00 +0000

(1) use a registry editor and go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeExcel9.0ExcelOptions

(2) add new string value with:
name: DlgFont
vale: Arial Black, 8

(3) Add a check box from the forms toolbar in Excel. And save the file.

(4) remove added registory entry.

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:31:00 +0000

Doco: ” The example image is of a checkbox from the ‘control toolbox’”

Nope, wrong answer . Check out the link to the article…

By: doco

doco — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:51:00 +0000

Hmmmm… Silly me. The example image is of a checkbox from the ‘control toolbox’.

By: Harald Staff

Harald Staff — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:50:00 +0000

Nice approach, Dave. Picture works in Excel 2000, the oldest version on this pc.

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:15:00 +0000

Good idea!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:46:00 +0000

In Excel 2007 you can format the control “fill colour – fill effects – picture – select picture”. With this you can put anything in the place of the checkbox text.

By: Jan Karel Pieterse

Jan Karel Pieterse — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:38:00 +0000

Nice one, John. Didn’t even consider HTML

By: J-Walk

J-Walk — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:31:00 +0000

I did it by saving the sheet as an HTML file. Then I modified one of the styles, and opened the HTML in Excel.

By: Andy Pope

Andy Pope — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:26:00 +0000

Sneaky!

I, wrongly, assumed your "File is showing in Excel 2003? comment meant you had done it using xl2003.
Having said that even if using xl2007 I would not have consider poking around in the xml.

Cool trick JK.