XL97: How to Determine Which Items Are Selected in a ListBox

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article explains how to retrieve selected items from a ListBox control that allows you to select multiple values.

MORE INFORMATION

In a UserForm, when you set the MultiSelect property to "1 - fmMultiSelectMulti" (without the quotation marks) for a ListBox control, you can choose any number of items from a list. For example, if a list contains Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, you can select any, none, or all of the items.

To determine which items are selected, use the Selected property of the list box. The Selected property of a list box is an array of values in which each value is either True (if the item is selected) or False (if the item is not selected). For example, if the list contains 1, 2, 3, and 4, and 2 and 3 are selected, the Selected property is the following array:

   False, True, True, False

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

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1. Close and save any open workbooks, and then open a new workbook.

2. On Sheet1, type the following values:

   A1: Alpha A2: Bravo A3: Charlie A4: Delta A5: Echo A6: Foxtrot A7: Golf A8: Hotel

3. Start the Visual Basic Editor (ALT+F11).

4. If the Properties window is not visible, click Properties on the View menu (or press F4).

5. If the Project Explorer window is not visible, click Project Explorer on the View menu.

6. On the Insert menu, click UserForm.

7. Place a ListBox control on the UserForm.

8. Activate the Properties window (press F4).

9. Change the MultiSelect property to the following value:

   1 - fmMultiSelectMulti

10. Click the RowSource property and type "Sheet1!A1:A8" (without the quotation marks).

11. Place a CommandButton control on the UserForm.

12. Double-click the CommandButton to display the Code window for the UserForm.

13. In the module, type the following code for the CommandButton1 Click event:

           Sub CommandButton1_Click ()
    
              ' Loop through the items in the ListBox control.
              For x = 0 to ListBox1.ListCount - 1
    
                 ' If the item is selected...
                 If ListBox1.Selected(x) = True Then
    
                    '...display the Selected item.
                    MsgBox ListBox1.List(x)
    
                End If
    
             Next x
    
             ' Close the UserForm.
             Unload Me
    
          End Sub
    
    

14. Run the UserForm.

15. Select one or more items in the list.

16. Click CommandButton1.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q161072
   TITLE     : XL97: Cannot Use Mouse to Populate RowSource or
               ListFillRange

REFERENCES

For more information about list boxes, click the Index tab in Visual Basic for Applications Help, type the following text

   listbox

For more information about the Selected property, click the Index tab in Visual Basic for Applications Help, type the following text

   selected