Unable to Set Formula Property of a Dialog Sheet Button

WORKAROUND

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• Method 1: Use Visual Basic for applications code to change the button's text property. To do this use the following example code:

               DialogSheets("Dialog1").Buttons("Button 1").Text =
               Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Text

  where Dialog1 is the name of your dialog sheet, Button is the name of the button for which you are trying to change the text, and Sheet1, , is the name of your worksheet from which your Button will get its text.
  
  NOTE: This code will not create a linking formula to cell A1 on Sheet1.
• Method 2: Manually assign the formula to the button on the dialog sheet by doing the following:
  
  
  1. Click the button to select it.
  2. Click the formula bar.
  3. Enter the formula, for example =Sheet!$A$1.
     
     This will create a linking formula to cell A1 on Sheet1, and when the contents of this cell is changed, what is displayed on the button is changed as well.