Pulling Text from a Cell and Placing It in a Shape

@Michael

If you are wanting a macro to do this I am assuming this will happen more than once in your sheet.
If that is the case I would suggest adding an 'Input Box' to J.Woolley's code.
Then you can use that variable in the code: ActiveSheet.Shapes(Box_I_Want_Change).Select

@Michael
Try this:

Dim Temp As Range
Set Temp = Selection
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Blank11").Select
Selection.Formula = "=Letter"
Temp.Select

See https://sites.google.com/view/MyExcelToolbox/

That's great!!! But I don't want to select the shape first. I simply want to refer to the particular shape in VBA and have the text from a certain cell to be written in said shape.

if shape was named "Blank11" and Range("Letter") contained the text, how would I code for this? Emphasize that I DO NOT want to select "Blank11" first.

@Roy
Click on a shape you wish to format and look at your Tab menus and you will notice a new tab, Shape Format.
Click on it and all of your object formatting tools will appear.

This tab is only visible when an object is selected.

"... you'll have to use the formatting tools that Excel provides for working with shapes."

Um, yes. And... where are those formatting tools?

Experimenting some, I found a couple ways to format. Intriguingly, both seemed to require I delete the cell reference.

Once deleted, the last text it had shown remained as pure text. If I either cleared that out (shapes are testy about the precise way that's done, almost as bad as PDF's are), I could directly apply formats via right-click|format. And once I put the cell reference back in, it applied to everything that put in.

If I left the text, I could NOT get right-click|format to work at all, not even anything coming up with right-clicking. But if I highlighted it all and pressed Ctrl-1, I got lots of formatting options. After choosing and saving them, putting the reference back in restored it to lovely, lovely working AND with the formatting.

But nothing at all worked without the reference being removed first.

New and wonderful for me. Fixes a major hassle for me with a document the boss wanted to be as identical to a program's produced output as possible and that has some objects that may or may not be Shapes, but apparently act like them in some ways as this worked in one of them. So, while I now have 100% of what I ever wanted due to this Tip, thoughts for experiments come to mind and hopefully I shall get the chance to do them, and more soon. If so, I'll report back anything I find interesting and/or useful.

One, I just ran. Was wondering how to use a formula. Of course, it does turn out a formula in the referred to cell works as it is doing the standard thing of taking the formula's output as the value of the cell reference and putting ITS text in the Shape. But a formula in the place of a simple cell reference generates an error that does not let one save said formula. Putting the formula in a Named Range and referring to the Named Range for the reference does not work either as Excel refuses to recognize the Named Range in the Shapes cell/editing bar/whatever.