How to change the mouse pointer icon in your VBA userform?

Here are the basic steps to change which mouse pointer image displays while using a specific control in your VBA userforms. Ensure your userform is showing in the Visual Basic Editor (keyboard shortcut Alt + F11) Ensure the Properties Pane is visible (keyboard shortcut F4) Select the userform you wish to modify.

How to make the white button on the userform visible?

By using the Userform_MouseMove event, we can essentially reset the userform by making all the white buttons visible. The precise moment the cursor moves off a control and onto the Userform’s background, this VBA code will trigger and change the visibility state of our buttons.

How to use mouse to hover in userform?

If you have Align to Grid turned on (Tools menu > Options > General > Align Controls to Grid), it should be fairly easy to get them on top of each other with the mouse. To illustrate the hovering technique more clearly, I went ahead and added another button to the userform (shown below).

How do you assign an icon to a mouse pointer?

You can assign one of several available mouse pointers by using the MousePointer property; or, you can assign a custom icon by using the MousePointer and MouseIcon properties. This example works in the following ways:

Where do I find mousepointer in Visual Basic?

Ensure your userform is showing in the Visual Basic Editor (keyboard shortcut Alt + F11) Ensure the Properties Pane is visible (keyboard shortcut F4) Select the userform you wish to modify. Within the Properties Pane, find the Property called MousePointer.

When do you use the mouse pointer property?

Use the MousePointer property when you want to indicate changes in functionality as the mouse pointer passes over controls on a form. For example, the hourglass setting (11) is useful to indicate that the user must wait for a process or operation to finish.

When do I need to change the mouse cursor?

There may be certain instances where it makes sense to change the look of the mouse cursor to notify your users of a particular action. A classic case for this is when you hover over a button. Typically, your mouse cursor will change from the pointer arrow to a pointer hand.