{"id":210,"date":"2015-06-18T17:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:50:18","slug":"creating-scroll-bars-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/creating-scroll-bars-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Scroll Bars in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-image-211 size-thumbnail\">I remember the first time I saw a scroll bar in Excel. &#8216;Wow!&#8217; I thought, &#8216;I can think of so many things I could do with that&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll bars can be used to control the value of a cell so that we can see the effect of changing its value on a graph or calculation. They are great for creating dynamic demonstrations or explorations.<\/p>\n<p>However the basic scroll bar that Excel creates for you is a bit limited and needs some work to get it to do everything we might want from it.<\/p>\n<p>This excel file available in the Excel techniques section of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/Excel_Files\" target=\"_blank\">www.mathsfiles.com\/Excel_Files<\/a> shows how to create and configure scroll bars to achieve our goals. We start with the most basic and work through to a sophisticated macro controlled version.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" style=\"width: 1465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ScrollBars1.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-461 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ScrollBars1.gif?resize=604%2C445&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ScrollBars\" width=\"604\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scroll Bars in Excel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-image-211 size-thumbnail\">Direct link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/Demos\/ScrollBars.xls\">Scroll Bars Excel file<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the first time I saw a scroll bar in Excel. &#8216;Wow!&#8217; I thought, &#8216;I can think of so many things I could do with that&#8217;. Scroll bars can be used to control the value of a cell so that we can see the effect of changing its value on a graph or calculation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/creating-scroll-bars-in-excel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating Scroll Bars in Excel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19,20,17],"tags":[3,5,29],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-files","category-excel-macros","category-excel-techniques","category-mathsfiles-com-resources","tag-excel","tag-macros","tag-scroll-bars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6flNW-3o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}