How To Add Calendar In Excel Vba Userform

Adding a Calendar in Excel VBA Userform

To add a calendar in an Excel VBA Userform, you can use the built-in Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control. This control allows users to select a date interactively from a calendar interface. Here’s how you can add a calendar to your Userform:

1. Open your Excel workbook and press Alt + F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor.
2. In the Visual Basic Editor, right-click on the Userform in the Project Explorer window and select View Code.
3. In the code window, declare a variable to hold the calendar control:
   Dim CalendarControl As Object
4. In the UserForm_Activate() event, add the following code to create and initialize the calendar control:

   Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
       ' Create and initialize the calendar control
       Set CalendarControl = Me.Controls.Add("MSComCtl2.DTPicker", "Calendar")
       With CalendarControl
           .Left = 10 ' Specify the desired left position
           .Top = 10 ' Specify the desired top position
           .Width = 200 ' Specify the desired width
           .Height = 200 ' Specify the desired height
           .Format = dtpShortDate ' Specify the date format
       End With
   End Sub

   Adjust the positions, width, height, and format according to your requirements.

5. Save and close the Visual Basic Editor.
6. Close and reopen the Userform to see the calendar control added.

After following these steps, your Userform will have a calendar control that users can interact with to select a date. You can then write VBA code to retrieve the selected date from the calendar control and perform further actions accordingly.

Note: Make sure you have the “Microsoft Windows Common Controls 2-6.0 (SP6)” reference added in your Visual Basic Editor. To add the reference, go to the Tools menu, select References and check the corresponding checkbox.

Here’s an example of how you can retrieve the selected date from the calendar control in a button click event:

Private Sub btnOK_Click()
    ' Retrieve the selected date from the calendar control
    Dim selectedDate As Date
    selectedDate = CalendarControl.Value
    
    ' Perform actions with the selected date
    MsgBox "Selected Date: " & Format(selectedDate, "dd/mm/yyyy")
End Sub