Hi
not possible with formulas/user defined functions as they can only
return values

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

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I am copying data from one sheet to another. I have used the
=VLOOKUP () to find the data which is working nicely. However, is
there any way to copy the formatting of the entire cell that I've found
(ie -- background color)? I'm guessing I"ll have to write my own
macro, so any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

All right -- any suggestions for what to do? I'm pretty hesitant to copy each cell's characteristic individually as this is a sizeable -- and variable -- sheet.

Thank you

Hi
if you want to copy the formats for many cells you may have a look at
'Edit - Paste Special - Formats'. If this is not what you're looking
for you may explain with some more detail how you ant to copy and if
this is a one-time operation of if you want to change the formats
automatically if the source formats changes

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Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

"WintonCW" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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All right -- any suggestions for what to do? I'm pretty hesitant to
copy each cell's characteristic individually as this is a sizeable --
and variable -- sheet.

Thank you

I ended up finally writing a macro that would do the trick:


'fromCell is found using a Cells.Find()
'toCell is assigned

Sub Fill(fromCell, toCell)
With toCell
.Value = fromCell.Value
.Interior.ColorIndex = fromCell.Interior.ColorIndex
.Interior.Pattern = fromCell.Interior.Pattern
End With
End Sub

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