o right, never straight forwards is it.
Is there any other way around the problem, to achieve the same
goal.??????????
Thanks
James
"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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A function called from a worksheet cell can only return a value to the
calling cell. It cannot change the value or format of any cell.
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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
"James Cornthwaite" wrote in message
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Ideally i would like to color the contents of the cell accessed by the
call of my function "findnewnominal(...)" The reason for this is the
function is called many times on a range table range and I would like to
know at a glance which rows in the table hadn't yet been accessed by a
calls of the function.
My macro to date (which works fine is)
Function FindOldNominal(NomCode, definedRange)
FindOldNominal = Worksheetfunction.VLookup(NomCode, definedRange, 5,
false)
EndFunction
but if i want to color the cell accessed I imagine i have to use
something like the following? (my attempt of something pseudocode)
Function FindOldNominal(NomCode, definedRange)
Activecell = reference(Worksheetfunction.VLookup(NomCode, definedRange,
5, false))
Activecell.Interior.ColorIndex = 3 (i.e red etc)
FindOldNominal = Worksheetfunction.VLookup(NomCode, definedRange, 5,
false)
EndFunction
I appreciate the above is probably non sensical but know little about
excel functions and just wanted to make as clear as possible what i
wanted to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
James