{"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":"

I remember the first time I saw a scroll bar in Excel. ‘Wow!’ I thought, ‘I can think of so many things I could do with that’.<\/p>\n

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

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

This excel file available in the Excel techniques section of\u00a0www.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

\"ScrollBars\"<\/a>
Scroll Bars in Excel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Direct link:
\nScroll Bars Excel file<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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