Question

i would like to have an array of objects in excel that call one event handler. specifically I have multiple buttons which perform the same function to different cells, and to keep from duplicating code I would like to simply reference these button objects via an index (like I used to do in VB 6.0)…. by finding which button was clicked I would like to populate specific cells etc. so the question is: an array of buttons in excel VBA? I’ve done a little work in VB.net where I used collections, and that worked well… but it appears I can’t do that in VBA.

Answer 1

Separate the common code into a single method and pass the cell as the parameter. Assign each button it’s own event method, which in turn calls the common method with the specific cell to edit as a parameter. Something like this:

Private Sub CommonMethod(someCell as String)
  ' Do your stuff
  Range(someCell).Value = something
End Sub

So each button could be assigned to it’s own method. This is already built in so don’t try to recreate it, keep it simple.

Private Sub Button1_Click()
  CommonMethod("A1");
End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click()
  CommonMethod("A2");
End Sub