Programmatically set Excel LinkedCell property with VBA

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:36:48 +0000

Yesterday I was working with an Excel document that contained Combobox form controls.

I wanted to count the number of cells containing a particular value using the COUNTIF formula. However the count returned 0 because the LinkedCell property of the Combobox was not set to the Cell that contained the Combobox.

To set the LinkedCell Ctrl-Click the Combobox to select it, right-click and select Format Control. Then set the correct Cell in the Cell link field:

My sheet contained about 150 Comboboxes, so obviously I was going to do this using a script. I couldn't find anything useful with Google so I wrote my own Macro.

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Programmatically set Excel LinkedCell property with VBA