Create Button Macro in Excel

Create Macro Button in Excel

The most common tasks in Excel can be automated to avoid unnecessary time consumption. Having talked about automation VBA macros is the way to go forward in excel, once the macro coding is done we need to execute that program to get the assigned job done. You must have already seen a button can do the job in many of the worksheets, so once the programming is done we can assign that work to one of the buttons so by just click of the button the assigned job will be executed. So in this article, we will take you through the process of creating an excel button to execute the task.

3 Methods to Create Button in Macro Excel?

As we know macro coding is the perfect way to automate tasks, there is a small another thing we can do to execute that code. Macro & Buttons are the perfect combinations, it is like “typical Indian marriage of boy likes a girl and girl likes a boy”. By just as the click of the button we can execute hundreds of lines, so some of the complicated reports can be automated and hand over to your team members and say all they have to do is to click the button to get the job done.

So, in excel we can create an excel button using three ways and those are below.

1. Shapes
2. Active X Control
3. Form Control in Excel

We will see each one of them in detail now.

#1 – Using Shapes

The best and easy way to create a button to assign macro is using “Shapes” of Excel. We can insert a wide variety of shapes in excel and also we can format these shapes as we would like to make them look.

Before inserting shapes below is the macro we had written to filter values in the below data.

We have data in columns from A to E and in G2 cell we have created a drop-down list of all the card types, the card type that we choose in the G2 cell should be filtered out in the data and for this below is the excel macro code we have written.

Code:

Sub Filter_Values()

 Dim LR As Long
 Dim LC As Long
 Dim Rng As Range

 LR = Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
 LC = Cells(5, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

 Set Rng = Cells(5, 1).Resize(LR, LC)
 Rng.AutoFilter Field:=4, Criteria1:=Range("G2").Value

End Sub

Upon running the above code it will filter the values which are selected in the cell G2 cell. Every time we need to open Visual Basic Editor and we need to run the code.

So, now we will insert shapes to assign the macro.

Step 1: Go to the INSERT tab in excel and find the “Shapes” option.

Step 2: Once you click on the drop-down list of “Shapes” we will see many shapes options.

Select any of the shapes and draw on the worksheet (above the data table).

Step 3: After adding the shapes we need to enter some text value to it, so right-click on the shape and choose “Edit Text”.

Step 4: Enter text as you would like to convey the message to the user.

Step 5: This is the default view of the shape, so we can format it under the “Format” tab.

Step 6: Once the proper formatting is given to the shape right click and choose “Assign Macro”.

Step 7: Now this will open up all the macro names in the visual basic editor.

Choose the macro that you would like to assign to the shape.

Step 8: Now click on “Ok” and macro has been assigned to the shape.

Now when you hover on the shape you can see hand pointer indicating the click option.

Now if you click, the assigned macro will be executed and the value which is there in cell G2 will be filtered.

#2 – Using Form Control Shapes & Active X

Under the developer tab, we have an option called “Insert”, under this we have “Form Control” and “Active X Control”.

From “Form Controls” select the “Button” option.

Draw this on your worksheet and immediately you will get a list of macros.

Choose the macro that you would like to assign and click on “Ok” to close the above window.

Now Button is created to run the macro.

Like this, we can create a button in excel to execute the macro.

Things to Remember

• Active X Control button requires further coding knowledge, so not covered in this article.
• The basic difference between Shape & Form control is the formatting and style they look.

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This has been a Guide to Create Button Macro in Excel. Here we discuss the Top 3 Methods using shapes, active X control, and form control along with examples and downloadable excel templates. You may learn more about excel from the following articles –

• VBA Macros
• Record Macros in Excel
• VBA Tutorial