Question

I am trying to add an ActiveX command button in my work sheet at run time. The number of command buttons will depend on the number of lines in the work sheet. I plan to give x and y coordinates in the command button property to position them correctly. I understand that we can insert command buttons in user form this way.

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

Me.Controls.Add _
"Forms.CommandButton.2", "CopyOf"
End Sub

How can we insert command buttons in a work sheet (not user form). Worksheets(“abc”).Add doesn’t work. Also how to I define independent click events for them. For example if I click a command button, it should tell me which row is it in.

Thanks

————–UPDATE —————————–

So I am able to add the command buttons in their required spot dynamically based on the number of lines in my worksheet.

Private Sub addb3(ByVal rows_present_alerts As Integer)
Dim topcounter As Double
topcounter = 15.75
For i = 2 To rows_present_alerts ' The first row has the column headers
   With Worksheets("abc").OLEObjects
   .Add(ClassType:="Forms.CommandButton.1", Link:=False _
    , DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=509.25, Top:=topcounter, Width:=48, Height:=14.25 _
    ).Select
    End With
topcounter = topcounter + 15    ' (not sure this approach will work in monitors with diff screen resolution but anyways) 
Next i
End Sub

I want to assign click events to each command button. When I click the command button, it should tell me which row is it in.

Answer 1

The easiest way to work this sort of thing out is to record a macro, then perform the action, and see what code gets recorded. In this case I recorded a macro and added a button to the sheet and got the code snippet:

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
'

'
    ActiveSheet.Buttons.Add(126.75, 39.75, 46.5, 19.5).Select
End Sub

You should be able to take it from there…