I want to create a macro that will carry out actions on cells below each
other or side by side automatically. I think it is called creating a loop
macro but not to sure.
At present i have a spread sheet which i input data (copy and paste) from
another application. The data is numeric, but when i paste it into excel is
thinks its a text entry. I have done all the normal stuff but i have to place
the cursor at the end of the data in the cell, press F2 and then backspace.
This is the action i would like to run the macro on as i have to do this in
every cell.

I have create a macro to do this action but it will not allow me to
highlight an area and run it for every cell.

Can anyone help please???

For Each cell In selection
'do your stuff
Next cell

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HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"148steve" wrote in message
...
I want to create a macro that will carry out actions on cells below each
other or side by side automatically. I think it is called creating a loop
macro but not to sure.
At present i have a spread sheet which i input data (copy and paste) from
another application. The data is numeric, but when i paste it into excel
is
thinks its a text entry. I have done all the normal stuff but i have to
place
the cursor at the end of the data in the cell, press F2 and then
backspace.
This is the action i would like to run the macro on as i have to do this
in
every cell.

I have create a macro to do this action but it will not allow me to
highlight an area and run it for every cell.

Can anyone help please???

Thanks Bob, but i'm a bit of a thicky when it comes to this, can you explain
a bit more simply how i would do this....

Thanks again

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

For Each cell In selection
'do your stuff
Next cell

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"148steve" wrote in message
...
I want to create a macro that will carry out actions on cells below each
other or side by side automatically. I think it is called creating a loop
macro but not to sure.
At present i have a spread sheet which i input data (copy and paste) from
another application. The data is numeric, but when i paste it into excel
is
thinks its a text entry. I have done all the normal stuff but i have to
place
the cursor at the end of the data in the cell, press F2 and then
backspace.
This is the action i would like to run the macro on as i have to do this
in
every cell.

I have create a macro to do this action but it will not allow me to
highlight an area and run it for every cell.

Can anyone help please???

You said that you already had code to do the F2 stuff. Wrap your code in
those two lines, and change references to specific cells/ranges to the cell
object variable.

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"148steve" wrote in message
...
Thanks Bob, but i'm a bit of a thicky when it comes to this, can you
explain
a bit more simply how i would do this....

Thanks again

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

For Each cell In selection
'do your stuff
Next cell

--

HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace xxxx in the email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"148steve" wrote in message
...
I want to create a macro that will carry out actions on cells below
each
other or side by side automatically. I think it is called creating a
loop
macro but not to sure.
At present i have a spread sheet which i input data (copy and paste)
from
another application. The data is numeric, but when i paste it into
excel
is
thinks its a text entry. I have done all the normal stuff but i have
to
place
the cursor at the end of the data in the cell, press F2 and then
backspace.
This is the action i would like to run the macro on as i have to do
this
in
every cell.

I have create a macro to do this action but it will not allow me to
highlight an area and run it for every cell.

Can anyone help please???

I would Format all to General then copy an empty cell.

Select the data range and EditPaste Special(in place)AddOKEsc

That will chnage the text to numbers.

No need to F2 and Enter in each cell.

BTW.....macros won't record steps or run while you're in Edit mode.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:40:02 -0800, 148steve
wrote:

I want to create a macro that will carry out actions on cells below each
other or side by side automatically. I think it is called creating a loop
macro but not to sure.
At present i have a spread sheet which i input data (copy and paste) from
another application. The data is numeric, but when i paste it into excel is
thinks its a text entry. I have done all the normal stuff but i have to place
the cursor at the end of the data in the cell, press F2 and then backspace.
This is the action i would like to run the macro on as i have to do this in
every cell.

I have create a macro to do this action but it will not allow me to
highlight an area and run it for every cell.

Can anyone help please???