A formula may only return a value, not a format. macro required.


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Don Guillett
Microsoft MVP Excel
SalesAid Software

"prender" wrote in message
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If I write a formula in a cell such as "=VLOOKUP(F9,Vacation_initials,2)"
to
bring in the contents of a cell on another worksheet, is there a way to
also
bring along the formatting of that cell? In this case, I'm choosing from
a
range of 256 cells each of which has a different format.