is it possible to do a global quarantine of a selection of workbooks by
adding the word 'QUARANTINE' to the same cell in each workbook, without
having to open each workbook one at a time. Hopefully I would be able to
specifiy the size and colour of font also.

i.e. selecting a number of workbooks in a folder then running a macro to do
an update to a particular cell. Or is there a system already built into Excel
to allow this? Ihaven't found one.

I'm not sure of the code to open the workbooks but if you open all of
the workbooks first, then this macro will work.


sub quarantine()

for x =1 to application.workbooks.count
application.workbooks(x).select
sheets(1).select
range(a1).value = "Quarantine"
next
end sub


On Jul 11, 12:10*pm, Chacky wrote:
is it possible to do a global quarantine of a selection of workbooks by
adding the word 'QUARANTINE' to the same cell in each workbook, without
having to open each workbook one at a time. Hopefully I would be able to
specifiy the size and colour of font also.

i.e. selecting a number of workbooks in a folder then running a macro to do
an update to a particular cell. Or is there a system already built into Excel
to allow this? Ihaven't found one.

Hi,

Right click a sheet tab of an open workbook, view code and paste this in and
run it. You will need to set the pasth to what you want. Currently the root
of C

Sub quarantimeME()
Dim fn As String
TargetFolder = "C:\"
FileFilter = "*.xls"
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
fn = Dir(TargetFolder & FileFilter)
While Len(fn) 0
If fn < ThisWorkbook.Name Then
Workbooks.Open TargetFolder & fn
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("sheet1").Range("A1").Value = "Quarrantine"
ActiveWorkbook.Close True
End If
fn = Dir
Wend
End Sub

Mike

"Chacky" wrote:

is it possible to do a global quarantine of a selection of workbooks by
adding the word 'QUARANTINE' to the same cell in each workbook, without
having to open each workbook one at a time. Hopefully I would be able to
specifiy the size and colour of font also.

i.e. selecting a number of workbooks in a folder then running a macro to do
an update to a particular cell. Or is there a system already built into Excel
to allow this? Ihaven't found one.

Tim879

Thanks for the help. This is the sort of thing I am looking for but when I
run the macro I get the message

RUN TIME ERROR '438'
OBJECT DOESN'T SUPPORT THIS PROPERTY OR METHOD

"Tim879" wrote:

I'm not sure of the code to open the workbooks but if you open all of
the workbooks first, then this macro will work.


sub quarantine()

for x =1 to application.workbooks.count
application.workbooks(x).select
sheets(1).select
range(a1).value = "Quarantine"
next
end sub


On Jul 11, 12:10 pm, Chacky wrote:
is it possible to do a global quarantine of a selection of workbooks by
adding the word 'QUARANTINE' to the same cell in each workbook, without
having to open each workbook one at a time. Hopefully I would be able to
specifiy the size and colour of font also.

i.e. selecting a number of workbooks in a folder then running a macro to do
an update to a particular cell. Or is there a system already built into Excel
to allow this? Ihaven't found one.