Hi

I copied and pasted your code into my VBA project on the relevant sheet. and
nothing happens.

I will repeat what I am looking to do in case I have not been clear.

When I click on a cell (ActiveCell) I would like a box to appear with the
result of a formula (based on a vlookup formula which looks up the value in
the ActiveCell in a table "testrange", column 2). The type of box that I
would like to see is like the one that appears when you use
DataValidationInput Message

Can anybody help me with this code.

Regards

George





"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
On Error Goto ws_exit
Application.EnableEvents = False
If Target.Address = "$A$1" Then
Target.Value = Application.VLOOKUP(Target.Value, _
Range("testrange"),2,FALSE)
End If

ws_exit:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

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HTH

RP
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"George Andrews" wrote in message
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Excel 2000

Dear all

I guess my last post was too extensive and explained well enough.

I came across this code as a solutions to somebody else's problem.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
If Target.Address = "$A$1" Then
'
' Code to determine or select message text goes here
'
Message = "This is the message text"
Target.Validation.InputMessage = Message
End If
End Sub

How can I adjust this macro so that the Input message shows the result
of
a
vlookup formula based on the first three digits of the Active.Cell. The
worsheet formula I have used for the vlookup part is :

=VLOOKUP(INDIRECT(CELL("address")),testrange,2,FAL SE)

Regards

George