How can I create a progress bar in Excel VBA

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I m doing an 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 can t make it  My problem is with the progressbar control  I can t see the bar  progress   It just completes when the form pops up  I use a loop and DoEvent but that isn t working  Plus  I want the process to run repeatedly  not just one time

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Sometimes a simple message in the status bar is enough:

Message in Excel status bar using VBA

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

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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             gt  0  if max is set        MaxValue          gt   0       Status           optional message to display for user       DisplayPercent   Display the percent complete after the status bar         lt Status gt   lt Progress Bar gt   lt Percent Complete gt         Validate entries     If Value  lt  0 Or MaxValue  lt  0 Or  Value  gt  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  gt  0 Then Value   WorksheetFunction RoundUp  Value   100    MaxValue  0         Message to set the status bar to     Dim display As String     display   Status  amp              Set bars     display   display  amp  String Int Value    100   NUM BARS    BAR CHAR        set spaces     display   display  amp  String NUM BARS - Int Value    100   NUM BARS    SPACE CHAR         Closing character to show end of the bar     display   display  amp  BAR CHAR      If DisplayPercent   True Then display   display  amp         amp  Value  amp                chop off to the maximum length if necessary     If Len display   gt  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

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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

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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 amp   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  gt  gt          lt  lt           Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB  amp      gt  gt    amp  String Val PB   Chr 183    amp  String 100 - Val PB   Chr 32    amp    lt  lt       ElseIf istyle   2 Then   10 to 1 count down   eight balls style          Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB  amp        amp  ChrW  10111 - Val PB    11      ElseIf istyle   3 Then   solid progres bar  default          Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB  amp        amp  String 100 - Val PB   ChrW  9608       Else   just 00           Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB     End If End Sub

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Sub ShowProgress     Author      Marecki   Const x As Long   150000   Dim i amp   PB     For i   1 To x     PB   Format i   x   00         Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB  amp      gt  gt    amp  String Val PB   Chr 183    amp  String 100 - Val PB   Chr 32    amp    lt  lt       Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB  amp        amp  ChrW  10111 - Val PB    11      Application StatusBar    Progress     amp  PB  amp        amp  String 100 - Val PB   ChrW  9608     Next i    Application StatusBar      End SubShowProgress

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You can add a Form and name it as Form1  add a Frame to it as Frame1 as well as Label1 too   Set Frame1 width to 200  Back Color to Blue  Place the code in the module and check if it helps       Sub Main       Dim i As Integer     Dim response     Form1 Show vbModeless     Form1 Frame1 Width   0     For i   10 To 10000         With Form1              Label1 Caption   Round i   100  0   amp                   Frame1 Width   Round i   100  0    2              DoEvents         End With     Next i      Application Wait Now   0 0000075      Unload Form1      response   MsgBox  100  Done   vbOKOnly       End Sub   If you want to display on the Status Bar then you can use other way that s simpler      Sub Main      Dim i As Integer    Dim response    For i   10 To 10000         Application StatusBar   Round i   100  0   amp         Next i     Application Wait Now   0 0000075     response   MsgBox  100  Done   vbOKOnly      End Sub

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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

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There have been many other great posts  however I d like to say that theoretically you should be able to create a REAL progress bar control    Use CreateWindowEx   to create the progress bar   A C   example   hwndPB   CreateWindowEx 0  PROGRESS CLASS   LPTSTR  NULL  WS CHILD   WS VISIBLE  rcClient left rcClient bottom - cyVScroll rcClient right  cyVScroll hwndParent   HMENU  0  g hinst  NULL     hwndParent Should be set to the parent window  For that one could use the status bar  or a custom form  Here s the window structure of Excel found from Spy       This should therefore be relatively simple using FindWindowEx   function   hwndParent   FindWindowEx Application hwnd   MsoCommandBar   Status Bar     After the progress bar has been created you must use SendMessage   to interact with the progress bar   Function MAKELPARAM ByVal loWord As Integer  ByVal hiWord As Integer      Dim lparam As Long     MAKELPARAM   loWord Or   amp H10000   hiWord  End Function  SendMessage hwndPB  PBM SETRANGE  0  MAKELPARAM 0  100   SendMessage hwndPB  PBM SETSTEP  1  0  For i   1 to 100     SendMessage hwndPB  PBM STEPIT  0  0   Next DestroyWindow hwndPB    I m not sure how practical this solution is  but it might look somewhat more  official  than other methods stated here

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You can create a form in VBA  with code to increase the width of a label control as your code progresses  You can use the width property of a label control to resize it  You can set the background colour property of the label to any colour you choose  This will let you create your own progress bar  The label control that resizes is a quick solution  However  most people end up creating individual forms for each of their macros  I use 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

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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

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I liked the Status Bar from this page   https   wellsr com vba 2017 excel vba-application-statusbar-to-mark-progress   I updated it so it could be used as a called procedure   No credit to me    showStatus Current  Total     Process Running     Private Sub showStatus Current As Integer  lastrow As Integer  Topic As String  Dim NumberOfBars As Integer Dim pctDone As Integer  NumberOfBars   50  Application StatusBar        amp  Space NumberOfBars   amp          Display and update Status Bar     CurrentStatus   Int  Current   lastrow    NumberOfBars      pctDone   Round CurrentStatus   NumberOfBars   100  0      Application StatusBar   Topic  amp        amp  String CurrentStatus        amp                                Space NumberOfBars - CurrentStatus   amp       amp                                     amp  pctDone  amp     Complete     Clear the Status Bar when you re done      If Current   Total Then Application StatusBar       End Sub

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Just adding my part to the above collection   If you are after less code and maybe cool UI  Check out my GitHub for Progressbar for VBA   a customisable one     The Dll is thought for MS-Access but should work in all VBA platform with minor changes  There is also an Excel file with samples  You are free to expand the vba wrappers to suit your needs   This project is currently under development and not all errors are covered  So expect some   You should be worried about 3rd party dlls and if you are  please feel free to use any trusted online antivirus before implementing the dll

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About the progressbar control in a userform  it won t show any progress if you don t use the repaint event  You have to code this event inside the looping  and obviously increment the progressbar value    Example of use   userFormName repaint

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