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How to Auto-Select the Text of a Textbox When It is Selected in Excel?
When we are dealing with text boxes, it is very important to update and delete the data inside them, but if it contains a large amount of data, we need to select the data inside the text box and delete it. In this tutorial, I will explain the process for selecting the data in a text box by clicking on it. This tutorial will help you understand how you can autoselect text from a textbox when it is selected in Excel.
Auto-Select the Text of a Textbox When It is Selected
Here, we will first create a macro and then assign it to the text box. Let us see a simple process to know how we can auto-select text from a textbox when it is selected in Excel using the VBA application. We will be using an ActiveX command textbox under the developer option.
Step 1
Let us consider an Excel sheet where an active "X" command text box is present, similar to the sheet shown in the below image.
![](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/483469-1673410213.jpg)
To open the VBA application, right-click on the text box and select View Code, then type the programme into the text box as shown in the image below.
Example
Private Sub TextBox1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, _ ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single) 'Updated by Nirmal Call SelTextBox(Me.TextBox1.Object) End Sub Sub SelTextBox(xTextBox As Object) With xTextBox .SelStart = 0 .SelLength = Len(.Text) End With End Sub
![](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/483469-1673410232.jpg)
Step 2
Now save the sheet as a macro-enabled sheet and close the vba application using the command "Alt + Q", which then exits the designer mode, and every time we click on the textbox, all the data in it will be selected as shown in the below image.
![](https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/483469-1673410263.jpg)
If you have multiple textboxes, then you can add the following code to the program.
Example
Private Sub TextBox2_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single) Call SelTextBox(Me.TextBox2.Object) End Sub
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we used a simple example to demonstrate how you can auto-select the text from a textbox when it is selected in Excel.