Question

I have an excel sheet that I am attempting to have a scroll bar show only 10 of the possible hundreds of items on a list. I created a scroll bar, had it reference a field, for calculations. Each field that the scroll bar interacts with is referenced off the field as well. So I can’t imagine why it’s not working.

What is happening is that when I scroll the bar up and down the text to the right of it doesn’t move. I’d like to know if it is my computer, or not. If it is my computer what would I need to do to make it work? I use VBA and I may of accidently disabled something to allow the scrolling to not work, but I don’t know.

Can someone help please?

Here is the worksheet in question.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3327208/Excel/scrollnotworking.xlsx

Answer 1

Your calculation is set to Manual.

Do this. Under the

Formulas Tab click on Calculation Options and then on Automatic

Now try it

FOLLOWUP

sweet perfect, is there a way in VBA to make this happen? I have to go through my code and find out if there is a spot where makes this as Manual… because I think there is. – Matt Ridge 1 min ago

There are mainly two reasons why the calculation switches to manual via VBA

1) You set it MANUAL and then forget to set it back. For example

Sub Sample()
    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual

    '~~> Rest of your code
End Sub

2) You set it to MANUAL in the beginning and set it AUTOMATIC in the end but it still remains MANUAL. This primarily happens because you didn’t include proper Error Handling because of which the code exits prematurely from the procedure. See this example

The wrong way

Sub Sample()
    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual

    '~~> Rest of your code

    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
End Sub

The preferred way

Sub Sample()
    On Error GoTo Whoa

    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual

    '~~> Rest of your code

Letscontinue:
    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
    Exit Sub
Whoa:
    MsgBox Err.Description
    Resume Letscontinue
End Sub

Note: If you want, You can also store the current state of Calculation and set it back at the end of the code if you want to.