Progress bar in VBA Excel

from:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5181164/progress-bar-in-vba-excel I'm doing a Excel app that needs a lot data updating from a database, so it takes time. I want to make a progress bar in a userform and it pops up when the data is updating. The bar I want is just a little blue bar moves right and left and repeats till the update is done, no percentage needed. I know I should use the progressbar control, but I tried for sometime but cant make it. EDIT: My problem is with the progressbar control, I cant see the bar 'progress', it just complete when the form pops up. I use a loop and DoEvent but that isn't working. Plus, I want the process to repeat, not just one time. excel  vba  excel-vba share improve this question edited Mar 28 '14 at 19:20 eykanal 9,865 7 45 75 asked  Mar 3 '11 at 13:14 darkjh 978 5 18 32

"tried for some time but can't make it" - show us what you've managed to do, what are the problems and we'll try to help you –   Grzegorz Oledzki  Mar 3 '11 at 13:18 thx for advice, see edit –   darkjh  Mar 3 '11 at 13:49 add a comment

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In the past, with VBA projects, I've used a label control with the background colored and adjust the size based on the progress. Some examples with similar approaches can be found in the following links: http://oreilly.com/pub/h/2607 http://www.ehow.com/how_7764247_create-progress-bar-vba.html http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/tip/displaying_a_progress_indicator/ Here is one that uses Excel's Autoshapes: http://www.andypope.info/vba/pmeter.htm I used a progress bar example on userform.Therewithal you can do filtering via this UserForm. When you press the filter button ,opens progress bar.An advanced progress bar instance.  Template Downloading Link :https://netmerkez.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/filtering-via-userform/ share improve this answer edited Jun 26 at 10:53 kadrleyn 7 3 answered  Mar 3 '11 at 13:30 Matt 7,833 29 51

thx i will try this way –   darkjh  Mar 3 '11 at 13:49 @darkjh: You're welcome. Seeing you're new, please remember to accept and/or up vote if this answers your question or is helpful. Thanks. –   Matt  Mar 3 '11 at 14:02  add a comment

up vote 48 down vote	Sometimes a simple message in the status bar is enough: This is very simple to implement: Dim x As Integer Dim MyTimer As Double 'Change this loop as needed. For x = 1 To 50 ' Do stuff Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & x & " of 50: " & Format(x / 50, "0%") Next x Application.StatusBar = False share improve this answer answered  Oct 16 '12 at 15:22 eykanal 9,865 7 45 75
	3   Glad I saw this. Was a much better idea for me than actually faking a progress bar. –   atomicules  Mar 19 '13 at 16:22 1   As am I - simple and effective. –   Sean  Dec 2 '13 at 11:58 Fantastic answer. +1 –   Caltor  Mar 3 at 16:37 add a comment

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Here's another example using the StatusBar as a progress bar. By using some Unicode Characters, you can mimic a progress bar. 9608 - 9615 are the codes I tried for the bars. Just select one according to how much space you want to show between the bars. You can set the length of the bar by changing NUM_BARS. Also by using a class, you can set it up to handle initializing and releasing the StatusBar automatically. Once the object goes out of scope it will automatically clean up and release the StatusBar back to Excel. ' Class Module - ProgressBar Option Explicit Private statusBarState As Boolean Private enableEventsState As Boolean Private screenUpdatingState As Boolean Private Const NUM_BARS As Integer = 50 Private Const MAX_LENGTH As Integer = 255 Private BAR_CHAR As String Private SPACE_CHAR As String Private Sub Class_Initialize() ' Save the state of the variables to change statusBarState = Application.DisplayStatusBar enableEventsState = Application.EnableEvents screenUpdatingState = Application.ScreenUpdating ' set the progress bar chars (should be equal size) BAR_CHAR = ChrW(9608) SPACE_CHAR = ChrW(9620) ' Set the desired state Application.DisplayStatusBar = True Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.EnableEvents = False End Sub Private Sub Class_Terminate() ' Restore settings Application.DisplayStatusBar = statusBarState Application.ScreenUpdating = screenUpdatingState Application.EnableEvents = enableEventsState Application.StatusBar = False End Sub Public Sub Update(ByVal Value As Long, Optional ByVal MaxValue As Long= 0, Optional ByVal Status As String = "", Optional ByVal DisplayPercent As Boolean = True) ' Value : 0 to 100 (if no max is set) ' Value : >=0 (if max is set) ' MaxValue : >= 0 ' Status : optional message to display for user ' DisplayPercent : Display the percent complete after the status bar ' <Status> <Progress Bar> <Percent Complete> ' Validate entries If Value < 0 Or MaxValue < 0 Or (Value > 100 And MaxValue = 0) Then Exit Sub ' If the maximum is set then adjust value to be in the range 0 to 100 If MaxValue > 0 Then Value = WorksheetFunction.RoundUp((Value * 100) / MaxValue, 0) ' Message to set the status bar to Dim display As String display = Status & " " ' Set bars display = display & String(Int(Value / (100 / NUM_BARS)), BAR_CHAR) ' set spaces display = display & String(NUM_BARS - Int(Value / (100 / NUM_BARS)), SPACE_CHAR) ' Closing character to show end of the bar display = display & BAR_CHAR If DisplayPercent = True Then display = display & " (" & Value & "%) " ' chop off to the maximum length if necessary If Len(display) > MAX_LENGTH Then display = Right(display, MAX_LENGTH) Application.StatusBar = display End Sub Sample Usage: Dim progressBar As New ProgressBar For i = 1 To 100 Call progressBar.Update(i, 100, "My Message Here", True) Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:01")) Next share improve this answer edited Oct 6 '14 at 15:43 cptully 13 3 answered  Sep 7 '13 at 1:38 Zack Graber 376 2 6

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============== This code goes in Module1 ============ Sub ShowProgress() UserForm1.Show End Sub ============== Module1 Code Block End ============= Create a Button on a Worksheet; map button to "ShowProgress" macro Create a UserForm1 with 2 buttons, progress bar, bar box, text box: UserForm1 = canvas to hold other 5 elements CommandButton2 = Run Progress Bar Code; Caption:Run CommandButton1 = Close UserForm1; Caption:Close Bar1 (label) = Progress bar graphic; BackColor:Blue BarBox (label) = Empty box to frame Progress Bar; BackColor:White Counter (label) = Display the integers used to drive the progress bar ======== Attach the following code to UserForm1 ========= Option Explicit ' This is used to create a delay to prevent memory overflow ' remove after software testing is complete Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) Private Sub UserForm_Initialize() Bar1.Tag = Bar1.Width Bar1.Width = 0 End Sub Sub ProgressBarDemo() Dim intIndex As Integer Dim sngPercent As Single Dim intMax As Integer '============================================== '====== Bar Length Calculation Start ========== '-----------------------------------------------' ' This section is where you can use your own ' ' variables to increase bar length. ' ' Set intMax to your total number of passes ' ' to match bar length to code progress. ' ' This sample code automatically runs 1 to 100 ' '-----------------------------------------------' intMax = 100 For intIndex = 1 To intMax sngPercent = intIndex / intMax Bar1.Width = Int(Bar1.Tag * sngPercent) Counter.Caption = intIndex '======= Bar Length Calculation End =========== '============================================== DoEvents '------------------------ ' Your production code would go here and cycle ' back to pass through the bar length calculation ' increasing the bar length on each pass. '------------------------ 'this is a delay to keep the loop from overrunning memory 'remove after testing is complete Sleep 10 Next End Sub Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() 'CLOSE button Unload Me End Sub Private Sub CommandButton2_Click() 'RUN button ProgressBarDemo End Sub ================= UserForm1 Code Block End ===================== ============== This code goes in Module1 ============= Sub ShowProgress() UserForm1.Show End Sub ============== Module1 Code Block End ============= share improve this answer answered  Jul 12 '12 at 6:33 John Harris 61 1 1

This is a nice solution! –   Stephan  Dec 6 '12 at 14:10 add a comment

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The label control that resizes is a quick solution. However, most people end up creating individual forms for each of their macros. I used the DoEvents function and a modeless form to use a single form for all your macros. Here is a blog post I wrote about it: http://strugglingtoexcel.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/progress-bar-excel-vba/ All you have to do is import the form and a module into your projects, and call the progress bar with: Call modProgress.ShowProgress(ActionIndex, TotalActions, Title.....) I hope this helps. share improve this answer answered  Apr 30 '14 at 20:17 Ejaz Ahmed 51 4

I also found the "Abort" Button on the Dialog very helpful, thank you. –   Thomas Stracke  Aug 12 '14 at 8:21 1   Hi Thomas. We all want to stop a loop at will, that is why I coded that in. Thanks for noticing. Have a great day. –   Ejaz Ahmed  Aug 15 '14 at 20:43 add a comment

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I'm loving all the solutions posted here, but I solved this using Conditional Formatting as a percentage-based Data Bar. This is applied to a row of cells as shown below. The cells that include 0% and 100% are normally hidden, because they're just there to give the "ScanProgress" named range (Left) context. In the code I'm looping through a table doing some stuff. For intRow = 1 To shData.Range("tblData").Rows.Count shData.Range("ScanProgress").Value = intRow / shData.Range("tblData").Rows.Count DoEvents ' Other processing Next intRow Minimal code, looks decent. share improve this answer answered  Jul 5 '14 at 15:32 Lucretius 268 1 6 20

2   Main issue I see with this approach is that I often turn off screen updates and calcs when I am doing large operations that make a progress bar useful. –   VoteCoffee  Jul 17 '14 at 21:05 add a comment

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Sub ShowProgress() ' Author : Marecki Const x As Long = 150000 Dim i&, PB$ For i = 1 To x PB = Format(i / x, "00 %") Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB & " >>" & String(Val(PB), Chr(183)) & String(100 - Val(PB), Chr(32)) & "<<" Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB & " " & ChrW$(10111 - Val(PB) / 11) Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB & " " & String(100 - Val(PB), ChrW$(9608)) Next i Application.StatusBar = "" End SubShowProgress share improve this answer edited Jul 3 at 11:27 randomsimon 73 4 answered  Feb 10 '14 at 18:22 user3294122 19

What is your question? –   Koitoer  Feb 10 '14 at 18:40 add a comment

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Hi modified version of another post by Marecki. Has 4 styles 1. dots .... 2 10 to 1 count down 3. progress bar (default) 4. just percentage. Before you ask why I didn't edit that post is I did and it got rejected was told to post a new answer. Sub ShowProgress() Const x As Long = 150000 Dim i&, PB$ For i = 1 To x DoEvents UpdateProgress i, x Next i Application.StatusBar = "" End Sub 'ShowProgress Sub UpdateProgress(icurr As Long, imax As Long, Optional istyle As Integer = 3) Dim PB$ PB = Format(icurr / imax, "00 %") If istyle = 1 Then ' text dots >>.... <<' Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB & " >>" & String(Val(PB), Chr(183)) & String(100 - Val(PB), Chr(32)) & "<<" ElseIf istyle = 2 Then ' 10 to 1 count down (eight balls style) Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB & " " & ChrW$(10111 - Val(PB) / 11) ElseIf istyle = 3 Then ' solid progres bar (default) Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB & " " & String(100 - Val(PB), ChrW$(9608)) Else ' just 00 % Application.StatusBar = "Progress: " & PB End If End Sub share improve this answer answered  Aug 5 at 0:01 ozmike 922 11 21

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Nice dialog progressbar form i looked for. progressbar from alainbryden very simple to use, and looks nice. Just to info. edit: only for premium members now :/ here is nice alternative class. share improve this answer edited Apr 17 at 16:50 answered  Apr 8 '14 at 2