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Celia_Alves
Apr 01, 2019MVP
ActiveX buttons unresponsive or having to be clicked twice to run macro
Hello, community! I inherited two Excel files that come with a bunch of ActiveX buttons. In some cases the buttons don't do anything: I click them, it shows kind of a duplicate image of the button ...
HarveyWatson
Copper Contributor
PratikAngaj That worked! Thank you so much.
akmonkeyboy
Apr 29, 2021Copper Contributor
HarveyWatson I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but it happened to me as well. I didn't see @pratikangaj response or I would've tried that first...
Anyway, I went to design mode, right clicked on the button and selected "Command button object", then "Edit". I didn't change anything, just clicked out of that and for some reason that fixed it.
- androo2351Apr 30, 2021Brass Contributor
The problem seems to have gone away for me now. Don't know if that's because I did the delete .exd files thing or because, perhaps more likely, MS have now fixed whatever it is they did to cause this in the first place.