Radio Button

[Spike9458]

I am using a spreadsheet set up by somebody else. It has several columns,
where if you click on the radio button at the top, a data entry windows pops
up and prompts the user to enter data for entry in cells of that column. I
would like to know what those radio buttons are actually called in excel
help, and a little more about how they work. Whoever wrote the spreadsheet
made some mistakes, and I want to go in and see if I can fix them.

Thanks,

--Jim

 

[Nick Hodge]

Spike

RadioButton is correct. As a group they are called activeX controls.
Typing this in 2003 came up with lots of information.

 

[Spike9458]

radiobutton typed in Excel 2000 brings up nothing.

 

[Nick Hodge]

Sorry. I was trying to get to activex controls...try that

 

[Spike9458]

Okay, now we're getting there. That was a HUGE help. Thanks Nick!

--Jim

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you show the ControlToolbox toolbar and let your cursor linger over the
"radiobutton", you'll see "Option Button".

 

[Nick Hodge]

Dave

Thanks for that, my reply was awful. I would still refer to them as Radio
Buttons. (Old fashioned), but I was trying to get the OP to type, ActiveX,
that had returned plenty of useful tips in Help.

I promise to try and use option buttons in the future ;-)

 

[Dave Peterson]

I still use radio buttons in conversation. Maybe if you refered to them as
"direct satellite radio buttons", they wouldn't be old fashioned.

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