Creating a Menu using Macros in Excel 2003

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I wanted to share with everyone something that I found very useful

and that was how to create a Menu for a spreadsheet using macros.
What we will do is create buttons from Macros and use our design
skills to create a pretty impressive looking layout. If you need any
assistance refer to the pictures as they are very detailed and if you
have any further question just leave me a comment and I'll try to get
back to you. The setup is that we are setting up a salary report an
we're adding menu so lets get started:

Tools:
Excel 2003

Step 1.) Highlight all of the cells in the viewing area.

2.) If you have the Drawing Toolbar, which is a default, at the bottom
of Excel Window, you will see a fill bucket. Click on that and select
white.

3.) Next select the rectangle in the same Drawing bar, and create a
rectangle. Make the size of the rectangle, the size that you want your
overall interface to be.
4.) Then create a Textbox. Notice that it is colored white and has a
black border. We do not want this. So Right click on the textbox and
select Format TextBox.

5.)Then in Fill, select No Fill. And in Line select No Line.

6.) I have added more textboxes that include the author and a little
information about the Sales Report.

7.) Add another rectangle and make it the hieght of the interface, and
change the color to distinguish the two.

8.) Next in the at the bottom of the window, select AutoShapes->

Basic Shapes-> Rounded Rectangle. And depending on your
preferences you may want to change the color like we did the previous
shaes.

9.) Next make sure that the Visual Basic is active. So near the top,
right click and place a check next to Visual Basic.

10.) Then select the Control Toolbox in the VB Toolbar.

11.) Then Select the label button and make a label over your first
rounded rectangle.
12.) Notice again it has a white background and the font may not be
want you want so lets change it. So Right+Click and select properties.
Notice a Window pops up.

The settings that you need to worry about are:

BackStyle- Select Transperancy to remove the white space.
Caption- Changes the Wording of the box
TextAlign- Changes the Alignment. It is recommended that you center
the text.
Font- Changes the Font.
 13.) Now lets Rename the sheets at the bottom of the
page. Right+Click on Sheet1 and select Rename.

14.) To add more worksheets, choose Insert from the menu, and then
worksheet. This is more than likely going to change the arrangement
of the sheets. So just rename them accordingly. To things cannot be
the named the same thing at the exact same time so change one to a
temporary name while renaming the other.
This is my result for the Sheet Tabs and for the overall Spreadsheet.
Now lets get coding, don't worry it won't be that bad.

15.) Right+Click on one of the labels, and select View Code.

This is the page you should arrive at.

Now between th Private and the Sub portion of the code enter
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Last Quarter").Activate
Between the quotes, is where you put the page title that you want the
label to direct the viewer too. And do not worry about spaces, as it
accepts those.

This is what mine looked like after I finished the complete code for all
four labels.

"X" out of the Code window and

finally Turn on off the Design Mode by select the triangle in the VB
toolbar.

Test out your new application by clicking on each Label. Now your
ready to impress your boss.
at 8:39 PM