Question

I have two excel spreadsheets, one has a combobox, the other one has a list of department names. I need to populate the combobox with the department names. How do I acheive this.

Answer 1

Here is a VBA Code:

Dim vArr as Variant
Dim i as Integer
vArr = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(Sheets(2).Range("A2:A10").value)
With Sheets(1).OLEObjects("ComboBox1").Object
     .Clear
     For i = Lbound(vArr) to Ubound(vArr)
        .AddItem vArr(i)
     Next i
End With

Here is the most simpler way to load the combobox, given your department range will not be empty…

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
    Sheets(1).ComboBox1.List = Sheets(2).Range("A2:A10").Value
End Sub

or within Sheet1:

Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
    ComboBox1.List = Sheets(2).Range("A2:A10").Value
End Sub