I want to have a textbox or a caption in an excel worksheet, that displays the value of some cell from this worksheet. Is it possible?
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I want to have a textbox or a caption in an excel worksheet, that displays the value of some cell from this worksheet. Is it possible?
You can use a textbox control as Lance suggests, but there are other, perhaps better ways:
If you create an autoshape textbox (Insert->Picture->AutoShapes) you can link it to a single cell by selecting it, then type (for example) “=A1” into the formula bar. You can then format and position it as you like.
That’s pretty cool, but not as cool as this: if you copy a range of cells, and then hold down the shift key as you choose the Edit menu, you’ll see an option “Paste picture link”. If you do this, it pastes a picture of the cells which gets updated when the cell values change. As Michael Caine never said, “not a lot of people know that”.
Note: I’m talking here about Excel 2003. I assume it still works in 2007, though the location of the various commands, etc. will have changed.