On Monday, September 3, 2012 9:54:01 AM UTC-7, Don Guillett wrote:
On Monday, September 3, 2012 12:34:02 AM UTC-5, Howard wrote:

Excel 2010.







This snippet of code is from a much larger piece of code.



Range( C1:C26) are the letters of the alphabet.



When I run this snippet , CName asks for a letter. When a letter is entered it is assigned to Range("G1") and used to do stuff within the rest of the code, and that works very well.







I want this snippet to look at Range("C1:C26"), find that G1 value and shade the cell one column to the right, in Column D. It does that okay but the rub comes whereas it also shades the entire Range("C1:C26").







So I have added a simple procedure to clear the shading of Range("C1:C26") just below the line "CName = vbNullString".







'gotta be a better way to get all this done without doing so many SELECTIONS.







Option Explicit



Option Compare Text







Sub TestAtoZ()



Dim i As Integer



Dim c As Range



Dim CName As String







CName = InputBox(" Enter a duplicated letter from the" _



& vbCr & " last Capital name in column M." _



& vbCr & " If there is no duplicate in the" _



& vbCr & " Capital name, enter the first letter" _



& vbCr & " of the Capital name, B for Boise.", "State Letter")



Range("G1") = CName



Range("B1:B26").Select 'Values are A to Z & each appear only once



For Each c In Selection



If c.Value = Range("G1").Value Then c.Offset(0, 1).Select



With Selection.Interior



.Pattern = xlSolid



.PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic



.ThemeColor = xlThemeColorLight2



.TintAndShade = 0.799981688894314



.PatternTintAndShade = 0



End With



Next



CName = vbNullString



Range("B1:B26").Select



With Selection.Interior



.Pattern = xlNone



.TintAndShade = 0



.PatternTintAndShade = 0



End With



Range("G2").Select



End Sub







Thanks for any help.



Regards,Howard



try this changing the color index number to suit



Sub TestAtoZ_SAS()

Dim c As Range

Dim CName As String



CName = InputBox(" Enter a duplicated letter from the" _

& vbCr & " last Capital name in column M." _

& vbCr & " If there is no duplicate in the" _

& vbCr & " Capital name, enter the first letter" _

& vbCr & " of the Capital name, B for Boise.", "State Letter")

For Each c In Range("B1:B26")

If c.Value = CName Then c.Offset(, 1).Interior.ColorIndex = 37

Next

'Range("B1:B26").Interior.ColorIndex = 0' don't need

End Sub

Thanks Don,

I copied this to the proper spot in the full code procedure and it works FINE.

For Each c In Range("B1:B26")
If c.Value = CName Then c.Offset(, 1).Interior.ColorIndex = 37
Next

....and thanks to GS also.

Regards,
Howard