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Below is my VBA code to get a selected item from a listbox. I want to send the name of the listbox as a string then access the list box that way since I can't access the listbox directly because this code is in a seperate module from my worksheet source code.

So what I am asking is how do you access a listbox by string. For example, instead of

Worksheets("sheet1").ListBox1

I want something like 

Worksheets("sheet1")."ListBox1"

So I can reuse this function as long as I have the name of the listbox

Code below

Public Function getListBoxSelection(listBox As MSForms.listBox) As String
    Dim colCount As Integer
    Dim I As Long
    Dim selectedItem As String

    If listBox.ListIndex <> -1 Then
        For I = 0 To (listBox.ColumnCount - 1)
             selectedItem = selectedItem & listBox.column(I)
        Next I
    End If
    getListBoxSelection = selectedItem
End Function

Thanks in advance!!!

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You can use Worksheets("sheet1").OLEObjects("ListBox1").Object

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