Calculating with Textboxes ...

[Mark Rosenkrantz]

Dear all;

I have a UserForm with a few textboxes.
The first textbox : tbAmount holds an invoice amount.
The second textbox: tbVAT should display the amount of VAT ( 19 %
of the amount )

The formula I use is: .tbVAT.Value = .tbAmount.Value * 0.19

Looks fine to me.
But, the stupid box don't disply the right amount.
I live in Europe and the Regional settings are a dot ( . ) for the thousands
seporator and a comma ( , ) for the decimal seporator.

When I enter 2250,00 ( or 2250 ) in .tbAmount, then textbox .tbVat displays
:
427.5 which is not what I want as I hope to see :
427,50

When I bring these values over to the worksheet it displays :
? 2250,00 which is OK, and
? 4275,00 which is not OK, as I want to see:
? 427,50

Apparantly there is some error in the way the textboxes work with thousands.
What is wrong with me ???? ( assuming I am not perfect )
I can't see what I did wrong.

Mark.

 

[Bob Phillips]

Mark,

There is nothing wrong with the textbox, it's just format. The worksheet
cell will be formatted as 2 dec places, but textboxes don't have a format,
it's a text representation of the value. What you need to do is to format
the text on exit, something like

TextBox1.Text = Format(427.5, "#.##0,00")

You will need to determine where to set the format, just after the value is
setup.


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Bob Phillips
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