I'm looking for an instruction to be used into a macro which gives the
possibility to interrupt the macro until you select a group of cells
with the mouse. Then the macro has to perform some operations on the
selected cells.
I tried with InputBox but it does not permit to select a range of
cells with the mouse, you can only write it with the keyboard, for
example: "a1:a10".
Could you suggest me something about this problem? I would like some
windows like the ones you use when you select data for a graphic.
Thank you.

use Application.Inputbox
with the Type parameter set to 8 , range.
read help on this, its reasonable good

Patrick Molloy
Microsoft Excel MVP

-----Original Message-----
I'm looking for an instruction to be used into a macro
which gives the
possibility to interrupt the macro until you select a
group of cells
with the mouse. Then the macro has to perform some
operations on the
selected cells.
I tried with InputBox but it does not permit to select a
range of
cells with the mouse, you can only write it with the
keyboard, for
example: "a1:a10".
Could you suggest me something about this problem? I
would like some
windows like the ones you use when you select data for a
graphic.
Thank you.
.

Max,

You need Application.Inputbox. If you use this with a type of 8 you can
select a range of cells, and the address of these cells is returned to
Inputbox.

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Bob Phillips
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"Max_Venezia" wrote in message
om...
I'm looking for an instruction to be used into a macro which gives the
possibility to interrupt the macro until you select a group of cells
with the mouse. Then the macro has to perform some operations on the
selected cells.
I tried with InputBox but it does not permit to select a range of
cells with the mouse, you can only write it with the keyboard, for
example: "a1:a10".
Could you suggest me something about this problem? I would like some
windows like the ones you use when you select data for a graphic.
Thank you.

Max,

Try something like the following code:

Dim SelectedRange As Range
On Error Resume Next
Set SelectedRange = Application.InputBox( _
prompt:="Select A Range", Type:=8)
If SelectedRange Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "You clicked cancel"
Else
MsgBox "You selected: " & SelectedRange.Address
End If
On Error GoTo 0


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"Max_Venezia" wrote in message
om...
I'm looking for an instruction to be used into a macro which
gives the
possibility to interrupt the macro until you select a group of
cells
with the mouse. Then the macro has to perform some operations
on the
selected cells.
I tried with InputBox but it does not permit to select a range
of
cells with the mouse, you can only write it with the keyboard,
for
example: "a1:a10".
Could you suggest me something about this problem? I would like
some
windows like the ones you use when you select data for a
graphic.
Thank you.

Hi Max,
I would have the InputBox use a default of the
activecell or the current selection.

See webpage:
InputBox and MsgBox
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/inputbox.htm

and the specific example:
Multiple Range Selection in InputBox (#multi)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/inputbox.htm#multi
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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