Excel VBA Run-time error '424': Object Required when trying to copy TextBox

Question

I'm attempting to copy the contents of a text box from one workbook to another. I have no problem copying cell values from the first workbook to the 2nd, but I get an object required error when I attempt to copy the text box. This macro is being run from the workbook containing the data I want copied. Using Excel 2007 Code:

Sub UploadData()
    Dim xlo As New Excel.Application
    Dim xlw As New Excel.Workbook
    Set xlw = xlo.Workbooks.Open("c:\myworkbook.xlsx")
    xlo.Worksheets(1).Cells(2, 1) = Range("d4").Value 'Copy cell content (this works fine)
    xlo.Worksheets(1).Cells(2, 2) = TextBox1.Text 'This gives me the object required error
    xlw.Save
    xlw.Close
    Set xlo = Nothing
    Set xlw = Nothing
End Sub

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

The problem with your macro is that once you have opened your destination Workbook (xlw in your code sample), it is set as the ActiveWorkbook object and you get an error because TextBox1 doesn't exist in that specific Workbook. To resolve this issue, you could define a reference object to your actual Workbook before opening the other one.

Sub UploadData()
    Dim xlo As New Excel.Application
    Dim xlw As New Excel.Workbook
    Dim myWb as Excel.Workbook

    Set myWb = ActiveWorkbook
    Set xlw = xlo.Workbooks.Open("c:\myworkbook.xlsx")
    xlo.Worksheets(1).Cells(2, 1) = myWb.ActiveSheet.Range("d4").Value
    xlo.Worksheets(1).Cells(2, 2) = myWb.ActiveSheet.TextBox1.Text

    xlw.Save
    xlw.Close
    Set xlo = Nothing
    Set xlw = Nothing
End Sub

If you prefer, you could also use myWb.Activate to put back your main Workbook as active. It will also work if you do it with a Worksheet object. Using one or another mostly depends on what you want to do (if there are multiple sheets, etc.).

Answer 2

I think the reason that this is happening could be because TextBox1 is scoping to the VBA module and its associated sheet, while Range is scoping to the "Active Sheet".

EDIT

It looks like you may be able to use the GetObject function to pull the textbox from the workbook.