XL2000: List Box Click Event May Not Occur

When you create a macro and attach it to the Click event for a ListBox control, the macro may not run when you click the list box.

When you create a Click event macro that is attached to a ListBox control, the macro runs only when the value in the ListBox control changes. The Click event does not occur if you click the same value in the control.

To run a macro whenever you click a ListBox control, use another event, such as the MouseDown or MouseUp event. For more information, see the example in the "More Information" section later in this article.

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1. Save and close all open workbooks, and then create a new workbook.
2. Enter the following on Sheet1:

      A1: a
      A2: b
      A3: c
   					

3. Press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic Editor.
4. On the Insert menu, click UserForm to insert a user form into the project.
5. Draw a ListBox control on the user form and set the RowSource property to the following value:
   Sheet1!A1:A3
6. Double-click the ListBox control to display the module associated with the user form.
7. Enter the following code for the MouseUp event:

         Private Sub ListBox1_MouseUp(ByVal Button As Integer, _
            ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
   
            MsgBox "Current ListBox value: " & ListBox1.Value
   
         End Sub
   					

8. Run the user form.
9. Click any item in the list box.

A message box appears with the value of the currently selected item.

For more information about Click events, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type click event in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.