How to select the contents of a textbox once it is activated?

Question

I have this simple Userform, where I only have TextBox1 and TextBox2. I enter some text in both of them. Assume the focus is on (the cursor is in)

Answer 1

Can't be more simple than this I guess...

Private Sub TextBox1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, _
ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
    With TextBox1
        .SelStart = 0
        .SelLength = Len(.Text)
    End With
End Sub

Whether you click on the textbox or you tab into it, it will do what you want. To deselect the text, use the arrow keys.

Explanation

If you debug the code you will see that even though you have said .SetFocus, the focus is not on the Textbox. .SetFocus doesn't work in TextBox1_Enter() and you need to have focus for the rest of the code to work. And hence my alternative...

Alternative

You may also like this version :) This overcomes the limitation of using the mouse in the TextBox

Dim boolEnter As Boolean

Private Sub TextBox1_Enter()
    boolEnter = True
End Sub

Private Sub TextBox1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer, ByVal Shift As Integer, _
ByVal X As Single, ByVal Y As Single)
    If boolEnter = True Then
        With TextBox1
            .SelStart = 0
            .SelLength = Len(.Text)
        End With
        boolEnter = False
    End If
End Sub