Comma in TextBox Problem (Spanish)

[Jeff B]

I have a US created spreadsheet with VBA that has a form
with a textbox, that sets the default value to a cell
value

example:
me.textbox1.value = sheets("WT").range("A1").value

The number in A1 is 10.85

When run in a Spanish system with a spanish version the
10.85 is shown as 10,85.

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks,

Jeff B

 

[Matthew Connor]

I have a US created spreadsheet with VBA that has a form
with a textbox, that sets the default value to a cell
value

example:
me.textbox1.value = sheets("WT").range("A1").value

The number in A1 is 10.85

When run in a Spanish system with a spanish version the
10.85 is shown as 10,85.

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks,

Jeff B

Microsoft has International settings that can control things like:
decimal (. or ,), date formatting (month/day/year or day/month/year).
They can be set for the entire operating system in Regional and
Language Options (WinXPPro - earlier was International IIRC) in the
Control Panel.

Different programs support these settings to different degrees. Excel
supports them very much. It seems that your Spanish system has the
decimal displayed as a comma. No big worries - the underlying value
remains unchanged. It's only formatting. Or, the .Value property is
unaffected - only the .Text property.

Finally, Excel allows you to override this behavior in Tools | Options
| Internation (tab) - uncheck Use System Separators, then specify
exactly what you want the decimal points to be. (This is an
application level setting.)

Hope this helps,

Matthew

 

[Jeff B.]

-----Original Message-----

Microsoft has International settings that can control things like:
decimal (. or ,), date formatting (month/day/year or day/month/year).
They can be set for the entire operating system in Regional and
Language Options (WinXPPro - earlier was International IIRC) in the
Control Panel.

Different programs support these settings to different degrees. Excel
supports them very much. It seems that your Spanish system has the
decimal displayed as a comma. No big worries - the underlying value
remains unchanged. It's only formatting. Or, the .Value property is
unaffected - only the .Text property.

Finally, Excel allows you to override this behavior in Tools | Options
| Internation (tab) - uncheck Use System Separators, then specify
exactly what you want the decimal points to be. (This is an
application level setting.)

Hope this helps,

Matthew

Matthew,

Thanks for the info.

In the third paragraph you mention a setting in Excel. I
cannot finf this setting in Excel 97 or Excel 2000. Is
this in a newer copy of Excel?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[Matthew Connor]

xl2002 only I believe.

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

Sorry - Forgot to mention that. Tom's probably right as I am running
Excel 2002.

Matthew