Is there any way to check whether an option button has been checked?

[samerickson89]

I'm trying to create a form where, if certain fields are blank, it prevents the user from printing I got most of the code to work, but I can't manage to figure out how to check whether an option button has been selected. A lot of resources I've found say to use something along the lines of

If OptionButton1.Value = True Then
     MsgBox "checked"
Else
     MsgBox "not checked"
End If

But that doesn't work at all. I've also tried

If OptionButton1 = True Then...

But that gives me "not checked" whether the radio button is selected or not. Then just for the heck of it I tried

If OptionButton1 = False Then...

Which gives me "checked" whether the radio button is selected or not. I'm at a loss here... is there a simple way to verify that a radio button has been selected? I'm using the option button under "form controls" not "ActiveX controls"

 

[samerickson89]

It looks like you have an option button from the ActiveX Controls. The OLEObject is the container holding the option button object, so you'll need to refer to the Object property of the OLEObject, as I did in Post #6 . So it should be...

[COLOR=#574123]If Worksheets("Sheet1").OLEObjects("OptionButton1").[/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000]Object[/COLOR][COLOR=#574123].Value = False And _[/COLOR]

Does this help?

That was it! So it looks like I needed to account for the fact that I was using ActiveX option buttons, and once I did that I was just forgetting the ".Object" portion of the code. Thanks!

 

[Domenic]

You're very welcome!

Cheers!