How to convert text in text box to cell content in Excel?
If there are some text boxes in a sheet, and you want to convert the contents in the text boxes into cells separately as below screenshot shown, are there any quick ways to solve this job except entering one by one in Excel? In this article, I introduce a macro to do you a favor on this problem.
Convert text box contents to cell with VBA
Convert text box contents to cell with VBA
Except macro code, there is no trick that can quickly convert text boxes to cell contents.
1. Press Alt + F11 keys to enable Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and then paste below code to the Module script.
VBA: Convert text boxes to cell
Sub TextboxesToCell()
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Dim xRg As Range
Dim xRow As Long
Dim xCol As Long
Dim xTxtBox As TextBox
Set xRg = Application.InputBox("Select a cell):", "Kutools for Excel", _
ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.AddressLocal, , , , , 8)
xRow = xRg.Row
xCol = xRg.Column
For Each xTxtBox In ActiveSheet.TextBoxes
Cells(xRow, xCol).Value = xTxtBox.Text
xTxtBox.Delete
xRow = xRow + 1
Next
End Sub
3. Press F5 key to run the code, a dialog pops out to remind you select a cell to export the textbox contents. See screenshot:
4. Click OK. Now all text boxes have been converted to cell contents.
Tip: Above VBA will remove the textboxes after running, if you want to keep the textboxes,please change code xTxtBox.Delete to 'xTxtBox.Delete.
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