I am trying to use a cell reference in one worksheet to a formula in another
worksheet, and want to use the formula itself instead of the result of that
formula, can anyone advise me how to do this?

Hi,

I don't know if there is an existing Excel worksheet function to do this,
but the following VBA will;

Public Function ReturnFormula(Target As Range) As String

ReturnFormula = Target.Cells(1, 1).Formula

End Function

Regards,

Chris.

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Chris Marlow
MCSD.NET, Microsoft Office XP Master


"MES" wrote:

I am trying to use a cell reference in one worksheet to a formula in another
worksheet, and want to use the formula itself instead of the result of that
formula, can anyone advise me how to do this?

This just returns the formula as a text, is there a way that it will
calculate the function instead of showing the contents?

"Chris Marlow" wrote:

Hi,

I don't know if there is an existing Excel worksheet function to do this,
but the following VBA will;

Public Function ReturnFormula(Target As Range) As String

ReturnFormula = Target.Cells(1, 1).Formula

End Function

Regards,

Chris.

--
Chris Marlow
MCSD.NET, Microsoft Office XP Master


"MES" wrote:

I am trying to use a cell reference in one worksheet to a formula in another
worksheet, and want to use the formula itself instead of the result of that
formula, can anyone advise me how to do this?

It is not clear to me what you want to do.

Can you post a formula and desribe what you want to do with it?

Maybe this UDF?

Function EvalCell(RefCell As String)
Application.Volatile
EvalCell = Evaluate(RefCell)
End Function

=evalcell(cellref)

Which does nothing more than return the value from the formula in cellref.

Just as easy to enter =cellref

Evalcell function is handy to return a value from a string such as

1+2+3


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:35:01 -0800, fasta13
wrote:

This just returns the formula as a text, is there a way that it will
calculate the function instead of showing the contents?

"Chris Marlow" wrote:

Hi,

I don't know if there is an existing Excel worksheet function to do this,
but the following VBA will;

Public Function ReturnFormula(Target As Range) As String

ReturnFormula = Target.Cells(1, 1).Formula

End Function

Regards,

Chris.

--
Chris Marlow
MCSD.NET, Microsoft Office XP Master


"MES" wrote:

I am trying to use a cell reference in one worksheet to a formula in another
worksheet, and want to use the formula itself instead of the result of that
formula, can anyone advise me how to do this?

"MES" wrote:

I am trying to use a cell reference in one worksheet to a formula in another
worksheet, and want to use the formula itself instead of the result of that
formula, can anyone advise me how to do this?