MS EXCEL 2000:
Hi,
I am having trouble recording a macro that will copy the text in a
cell, and paste it into the Find box, and then find the text (on a
seperate worksheet). The macro Finds the text that was in the cell when
I recorded it, but I want it to find what is there at the time that I
run the macro. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

More Specifically, I want the macro to work as follows:
' Go to a specific Cell
' Copy to the clipboard all the text in that cell.
' Paste what it copied into the Find box.
' Go to a specific worksheet.
' Go to A1 cell
' Paste what's on the clipboard into the Find Box and Find.
' Select the contents of that cell, and Copy it to the clipboard.
' Go to a specific worksheet and a specific cell, and paste the
contents of the clipboard in it.

FOLLOWING IS THE CODE AS IT WAS RECORDED, WITH MY COMMENTS IN IT TO
POINT OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT.
__________________________________________________ ____________________
Sub Macro5()
'
Application.Goto Reference:="R9C7"
ActiveCell.Range("A1:T1").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7"
' [WRONG! COPY WHATEVER IS IN THERE AT THE TIME I RUN THE MACRO]
Sheets("SCIT").Select
Application.Goto Reference:="R1C1"
Cells.Find(What:="1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7", After:=ActiveCell,
LookIn:=xlFormulas _
' [WRONG! FIND WHATEVER IS ON THE CLIPBOARD AT THE TIME I RUN THE
MACRO]
, LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows,
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False).Activate
ActiveCell.Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 "
' [WRONG! ACTIVATE WHATEVER IS FOUND THERE AT THE TIME I RUN THE
MACRO]
Sheets("FINDER").Select
Application.Goto Reference:="R34C7"
ActiveCell.Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"Major-Mode 1 - Ionian (The Major Scale) 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 "
' [WRONG! THE TEXT SHOULD BE WHATEVER IS IN THERE AT THE TIME I RUN THE
MACRO]
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub





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Forget the clipboard! The general idea is to:

get the value of the selected cell (not the formula) and
store it in a temporary variable (I called it "lookfor")

Application.Goto Reference:="R9C7"
lookfor = Activecell.value2

and then use this variable in the find statement:

Sheets("SCIT").Select
Application.Goto Reference:="R1C1"
Cells.Find(What:=" & lookfor & ", After:=ActiveCell,
LookIn:=xlFormulas _ , LookAt:=xlPart,
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False).Activate

And so on. Try it!

Nikos Y.


-----Original Message-----
MS EXCEL 2000:
Hi,
I am having trouble recording a macro that will copy the
text in a
cell, and paste it into the Find box, and then find the
text (on a
seperate worksheet). The macro Finds the text that was in
the cell when
I recorded it, but I want it to find what is there at the
time that I
run the macro. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

More Specifically, I want the macro to work as follows:
' Go to a specific Cell
' Copy to the clipboard all the text in that cell.
' Paste what it copied into the Find box.
' Go to a specific worksheet.
' Go to A1 cell
' Paste what's on the clipboard into the Find Box and
Find.
' Select the contents of that cell, and Copy it to the
clipboard.
' Go to a specific worksheet and a specific cell, and
paste the
contents of the clipboard in it.

FOLLOWING IS THE CODE AS IT WAS RECORDED, WITH MY
COMMENTS IN IT TO
POINT OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT.
_________________________________________________ _________
____________
Sub Macro5()
'
Application.Goto Reference:="R9C7"
ActiveCell.Range("A1:T1").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7"
' [WRONG! COPY WHATEVER IS IN THERE AT THE TIME I RUN THE
MACRO]
Sheets("SCIT").Select
Application.Goto Reference:="R1C1"
Cells.Find(What:="1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7", After:=ActiveCell,
LookIn:=xlFormulas _
' [WRONG! FIND WHATEVER IS ON THE CLIPBOARD AT THE TIME I
RUN THE
MACRO]
, LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows,
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False).Activate
ActiveCell.Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 "
' [WRONG! ACTIVATE WHATEVER IS FOUND THERE AT THE TIME I
RUN THE
MACRO]
Sheets("FINDER").Select
Application.Goto Reference:="R34C7"
ActiveCell.Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"Major-Mode 1 - Ionian (The Major Scale) 1 2 b3 4 5 6
b7 "
' [WRONG! THE TEXT SHOULD BE WHATEVER IS IN THERE AT THE
TIME I RUN THE
MACRO]
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub





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