Question

When I user the user form, I have to:

1) Alt + F11

2) Choose the Form

3) Run

4) Close the Form

5) Go back to Excel

Excel will not allow me to do anything if the form is not closed. Is there anyway to let me put a little icon on ribbon? And keep the user form appear while I am working with Excel?

Answer 1

You’ve got two parts to your question:

Adding an icon to the ribbon: Do you want the macro to be available for all spreadsheets?

• If so, follow this guide to save your macro as an Excel Add-in, and then attach it to the ribbon.
• If you only need it in the current spreadsheet, you could simplify things by adding a button to the spreadsheet which activates the macro (use this guide), or you could use a shortcut key to invoke the macro directly (use this guide, Assigning a shortcut to an existing macro section)

Keeping the dialog open: One of the properties of the UserForm is ShowModal; you can simply set that to false. Alternatively, as per the other answer, you can open it with MyForm.Show vbModeless.

Note that the properties of the form also allow you to provide a specific screen position too, so that the form isn’t in the way while you’re working: change StartUpPosition to 0 - Manual, and provide a value for Top and Left.