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Default Using multiple worksheets to keep track of changed values?

Yes. Target (in the change event) will hold a reference to the cell edited.
You can then compare the value to your second sheet and change the color if
different.

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"Cybert" wrote in message
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Going back to the original post, I want to use Target and the change event
to change the color of cells that are different from the initial values.

So
anytime someone changes one or more values I want to compare the new

values
to the original values (stored in the 2nd worksheet). If the changed

value
is different I'll change the font color to blue. If the value is the same
I'll change it to black. (Then I'll use that font color to determine

which
files I need to load and change.)

I'd use Target and the change event for that, right?

(Thanks for your help on this, Tom. I appreciate it.)


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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You said:

If my approach is okay, I guess I'll have to use the worksheet_changed

event
and use 'Target' to search for the cells that have been changed.

Right?

In your approach, I don't see any role for Target or the change event.

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Tom Ogilvy


"Cybert" wrote in message
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But Target will lose its reference every time a new event is

triggered,
right?

I want users to be able to play around with the values in the

worksheet,
and
then click the WRITE VALUES button to update the appropriate files

with
all
of the values that changed since they were added to the sheet.

This would make it really easy for me to add a "REVERT" button, too.

(It
would work even if people saved the file as a work-in-progress.)


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Target will hold a reference to the cell that changed/was edited

that
triggered the event.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Cybert" wrote in message
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I'm writing an Excel (vba) utility for a project at work and I

could
use
some advice on my approach.

I have a folder with 100 .wav files. Each file has a

corresponding
text-based script file with variables in it. Like this:

max_simultaneous_samples = 2;
min_playback_rate = 0.9;
max_playback_rate = 1.1;

I wrote a utility that allows users to add variable names as

column
headings. When they click on a READ VALUES button my tool fills

the
first
column with the appropriate filenames, and then it searches

through
the
files and extracts the variables. The output looks like this:

FILENAME max_simultaneous_samples min_playback_rate
max_playback_rate
thunk.txt 2
0.9 1.1
clap.txt 2
0.8 1.2
gunshot.txt 2
0.7 1.2


I want users to be able to change those values, and then I want to

write
the
changed values back to the appropriate files. My current plan is

that
when
I fill worksheet 1 with the values above, I'll add the same values

to
the
same cells in worksheet 2. That way I can tell which values are

the
same
and which have been changed. (I'll probably change the font color

of
any
value that is different from the initial values. That way people

will
have
a visual indication of their changes before they click the WRITE

VALUES
button.)

Is there a better/easier way to do this?

If my approach is okay, I guess I'll have to use the

worksheet_changed
event
and use 'Target' to search for the cells that have been changed.

Right?

Thanks in advance.