Friday, May 25, 2007

Excel VBA Macro Shortcut Keys

VBA Macro shortcut keys can be created when recording a Macro. It pays to make sure you use a combination NOT used by some other shortcut. Eg don't use CTRL + S.
I had a client who recorded two macros and used CTRL + S and CTRL + Z for them. I found them when I tried to save the file and undo an edit.

Fortunately you can change them.
Go to Tools | Macro | Macros and select the Macro you want to change the shortcut key for. Click Options and a Dialog Box will appear allowing you to reset (or set) a shortcut key.

Remember that this only works for the macro in the specific workbook that this Macro is recorded in.

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:02 AM |

Thursday, May 03, 2007

List of Macro Shortcuts in All Open Workbooks

Allen Wyatts Excel Tips has a beauty on extracting fromyour VBA the list of Macro Shortcut Keys in your VBA project.

Summary: Need a list of macro shortcut keys? It's not as easy in Excel as in some other Office applications, such as Word. It can be done, however, with a little ingenuity, as described in this tip. (This tip works with Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003, and Excel 2007.)

If you develop a lot of macros, you may want to list all those macros along with the shortcut keys used to initiate them. Of course, coming up with the code to list the shortcut keys is the tricky part of this problem, as such an ability is not built into Excel directly. (You can do it in Word, but not in Excel. Go figure.)

Read the whole article and code on his site.

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Posted by: Jethro | 9:52 AM |