Comments on: CommandButtons via Visual Basic 6.0

By: John Dow

John Dow — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

From: JohnDow@shortsalebuyer.net : I have the same problem that the undersigned has. The only difference is that I can not interpret the answer/formula as I am not familiar with V. B.; thus the final outcome is failure. Any possible chance that I could e-mail you or ??? an Excel Spread sheet of six cells as an attachment and ??? could send me back the results I am looking for?

> I have copied a web page into EXCEL that contains numerous hyperlinks
> labeled "e-mail". When I click on the hyperlink Outlook opens and
> the e-mail address is populated on the "to:" line. I want copy the
> underlying e-mail address in the adjacent cell, but can not find a
> way to do it (all I get is another cell labeled "e-mail"). I can do
> it by right clicking on the cell and selecting "edit hyperlink" and
> do a copy/paste w/ the e-mail address. However, I have a ton to do
> and was hoping to find a quick way to copy the email address, Thanks
> for your help.

You can use this UDF I found on http://www.ozgrid.com:

Function GetAddress(HyperlinkCell As Range)
GetAddress = Replace _
(HyperlinkCell.Hyperlinks(1).Address, "mailto:", "")
End Function

By: Ford Prefect

Ford Prefect — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:54:00 +0000

Funny thing. I only get it on 2003. There is no difference in excel 2007.

By: Andy Pope

Andy Pope — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:22:00 +0000

The two popup menus are,

Controls added by code, either within VBA or VB, get treated as OLE Objects and use the following menu,
Application.CommandBars("OLE Object").ShowPopup

Controls added manually use the activex control menu,
Application.CommandBars("ActiveX Control").ShowPopup

The manual task appears to be setting a property to enable Excel to distinguish between the 2, but I have yet to discover what that is.

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:34:00 +0000

What’s even more interesting is the “Asign Macro” selection usually found in Form buttons (not ActiveX buttons).

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:43:00 +0000

Jan Karel -

I see that great minds think alike. Although you responded from memory, while I tested it just now out of curiosity. That must account for the extra 4 minutes.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:41:00 +0000

Running the code in VBA gives you the same context menu as running it in VB6. FWIW.

By: jkpieterse

jkpieterse — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

IIRC the same happens when you add the button from Excel VBA. Odd quirk.

By: Peder Schmedling

Peder Schmedling — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:41:00 +0000

Hi!

I'm using this method to add buttons all the time. The two buttons are the same type of object. If you bring up the "Properties" dialog, you'll see that the two buttons have the exact same properties.

Why Excel displays a different context menu I don't know..