How to make the background color of checkbox transparent in Excel?
Normally, when inserting checkboxes (ActiveX Control) in cells in Excel, the checkbox background color will cover the fill color of the worksheet as below screenshot. For displaying the whole background color of the worksheet, you need to change the checkbox’s background color to be transparent. And this article will provide a VBA method to solve this problem.
Make background color of checkbox transparent with VBA code
Make background color of checkbox transparent with VBA code
Please do as follows to make the background color of checkboxes transparent with VBA code.
1. In the worksheet contains the checkboxes you need to make them transparent, press the Alt + F11 keys simultaneously to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, please click Insert > Module. Then copy and paste VBA code into the Code window.
VBA code: Make the background color of checkboxes transparent
Sub CheckBoxTransparent()
Dim xOleChk As OLEObject
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each xOleChk In ActiveSheet.OLEObjects
If TypeName(xOleChk.Object) = "CheckBox" Then
xOleChk.Object.BackStyle = fmBackStyleTransparent
End If
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub3. Press the F5 key or click the Run button to run the code. Then all checkboxes in current worksheet become transparent. See screenshot:
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