Combobox: Autoload property: WTH is it???

[brucemc]

I have run searches in Excel help, Microsoft corporate web site and
Google. No where can I find what the heck this presumed property that
appears in the options box for a combobox does. I would really like to
know, and also, why is MS intent on keeping it a secret???

 

[MartinShort]

Don't worry about it.

If you open the VBA code editor and look at the VBA help pages you wil
field a section on it. It isn't relevant for something like a combobox
but in certain scenarios, you might want to slow down Excel and preloa
an ActiveX component in the background. You'd know if you needed t
use it

 

[Guest]

It is a property of the container of the combobox - the OLEOBJECT: (as you
can see, it is ignored by the Combobox)

Autoload Property

True if the OLE object is automatically loaded when the workbook that
contains it is opened. Read/write Boolean.

Remarks
This property is ignored by ActiveX controls. ActiveX controls are always
loaded when a workbook is opened.

For most OLE object types, this property shouldn’t be set to True. By
default, the AutoLoad property is set to False for new OLE objects; this
saves time and memory when Microsoft Excel is loading workbooks. The benefit
of automatically loading OLE objects is that, for objects that represent
volatile data, links to source data can be reestablished immediately and the
objects can be rendered again, if necessary.

Example
This example sets the AutoLoad property for OLE object one on the active
sheet.

ActiveSheet.OLEObjects(1).AutoLoad = False