Wierd conditional formatting result (oops pressed send to soon!)
 

The Sub below is intended to extend the "Range1" to cover any new items in
column A and to enter conditional formatting to highlight any duplicates.

It works fine UNLESS the instruction "thisrange.Select" is removed. When
this is removed cell A1 ends up with the conditional format formula
"=(COUNTIF(Range1,A65527)1)"

I'm sure that the problem lies somewhere in the expression
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1,A1)1)"
but I am at a loss as to what I should put in its place.

Can anyone assist?

Public Sub rangered()
Set orig = Selection
Set thisrange = Range("a1",
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").End(xlDown))

thisrange.Select

thisrange.FormatConditions.Delete
thisrange.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression,
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1,A1)1)"
thisrange.FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="Range1", RefersTo:=thisrange
orig.Select
End Sub

Wierd conditional formatting result (oops pressed send to soon!)
 

relative references in a conditional format are relative to the activecell.
So you need to select Range("A1") before applying the conditional format.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Paul Lautman" wrote in message
...
The Sub below is intended to extend the "Range1" to cover any new items in
column A and to enter conditional formatting to highlight any duplicates.

It works fine UNLESS the instruction "thisrange.Select" is removed. When
this is removed cell A1 ends up with the conditional format formula
"=(COUNTIF(Range1,A65527)1)"

I'm sure that the problem lies somewhere in the expression
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1,A1)1)"
but I am at a loss as to what I should put in its place.

Can anyone assist?

Public Sub rangered()
Set orig = Selection
Set thisrange = Range("a1",
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").End(xlDown))

thisrange.Select

thisrange.FormatConditions.Delete
thisrange.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression,
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1,A1)1)"
thisrange.FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="Range1", RefersTo:=thisrange
orig.Select
End Sub

Wierd conditional formatting result (oops pressed send to soon!)
 

Thanks for that, I knew it had to be something like that. Based on you reply
I coded:

thisrange.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression,
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1," & Selection.Address(RowAbsolute:=False,
ColumnAbsolute:=False) & ")1)"

to cure it and save the .Select

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
...
relative references in a conditional format are relative to the
activecell.
So you need to select Range("A1") before applying the conditional format.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Paul Lautman" wrote in message
...
The Sub below is intended to extend the "Range1" to cover any new items
in
column A and to enter conditional formatting to highlight any
duplicates.

It works fine UNLESS the instruction "thisrange.Select" is removed. When
this is removed cell A1 ends up with the conditional format formula
"=(COUNTIF(Range1,A65527)1)"

I'm sure that the problem lies somewhere in the expression
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1,A1)1)"
but I am at a loss as to what I should put in its place.

Can anyone assist?

Public Sub rangered()
Set orig = Selection
Set thisrange = Range("a1",
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").End(xlDown))

thisrange.Select

thisrange.FormatConditions.Delete
thisrange.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression,
Formula1:="=(COUNTIF(Range1,A1)1)"
thisrange.FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="Range1", RefersTo:=thisrange
orig.Select
End Sub