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Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
Hi Tom,
It's Brian again from the posts about making something bold if I type an X somewhere else. Maybe I'm asking the wrong thing- What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. I won't bother you anymore after this. Thanks Brian |
Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
I gave up. Perhaps someone else can help.
-- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Brian W." wrote in message ... Hi Tom, It's Brian again from the posts about making something bold if I type an X somewhere else. Maybe I'm asking the wrong thing- What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. I won't bother you anymore after this. Thanks Brian |
Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
Hi
just to add to Tom: - first: always best to stay in the original thread: - it is of course easy to mechanically link two different cells and bold one of these cells (e.g. using a conditional format with a defined name in combination) BUT: This is probably not what you want and I can fully understand Tom why he is not able to offer a solution (I can't either...). What you have to tell us is the LOGIC how these cells should be linkes. To give you an example: - lets say cell B2 on your second sheet contains an 'X' - now you want to bold one cell on sheet 1 HOW do you determine WHICH cell to bold. How are these cells linkes or how do they correspond with each other (this is what Tom meant with 'matching' - at least I hope he meant this). Excel (we) have to know the algorithmn behing your bolding) -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany "Tom Ogilvy" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I gave up. Perhaps someone else can help. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Brian W." wrote in message ... Hi Tom, It's Brian again from the posts about making something bold if I type an X somewhere else. Maybe I'm asking the wrong thing- What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. I won't bother you anymore after this. Thanks Brian |
Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
First of all, IF statement cannot change formatting, period. You could use
conditional formatting if the cell to be tested is on the same worksheet, in the same workbook. AFAIK, it can't check the value of a cell in another workbook. You would have to write a VBA macro to change formatting in this way. And it won't be dynamic unless you use a Event macro in the workbook where you are entering the X What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. |
Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
Thanks Frank.
No wonder why nobody could answer my question. Now that I'm thinking about it more I'm not even sure if what I'm try to do is possible. I didn't specify before that the formula would be in the cell that I want to bold not in the cell that I'm putting the X in. But that leads to another problem becuase I already have a formula in that cell. Can you have more then 1 formula in a cell? I know you can do multiple conditional formating but that won't work across workbooks. I'll have to rework the format to make it all work. Thanks Brian -----Original Message----- Hi just to add to Tom: - first: always best to stay in the original thread: - it is of course easy to mechanically link two different cells and bold one of these cells (e.g. using a conditional format with a defined name in combination) BUT: This is probably not what you want and I can fully understand Tom why he is not able to offer a solution (I can't either...). What you have to tell us is the LOGIC how these cells should be linkes. To give you an example: - lets say cell B2 on your second sheet contains an 'X' - now you want to bold one cell on sheet 1 HOW do you determine WHICH cell to bold. How are these cells linkes or how do they correspond with each other (this is what Tom meant with 'matching' - at least I hope he meant this). Excel (we) have to know the algorithmn behing your bolding) -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany "Tom Ogilvy" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I gave up. Perhaps someone else can help. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Brian W." wrote in message ... Hi Tom, It's Brian again from the posts about making something bold if I type an X somewhere else. Maybe I'm asking the wrong thing- What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. I won't bother you anymore after this. Thanks Brian . |
Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
Conditional formatting can be done across worksheets in the same workbook
and across workbooks if both are open. It requires that the reference to the trigger cell (cell with the X) be put in a defined name (insert=Name=Define). Worst case, you would need one for each cell that is to be formatted. However, there is a positional correspondence between the two, it is possible it could be done with a minimal number of defined names. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy wrote in message ... Thanks Frank. No wonder why nobody could answer my question. Now that I'm thinking about it more I'm not even sure if what I'm try to do is possible. I didn't specify before that the formula would be in the cell that I want to bold not in the cell that I'm putting the X in. But that leads to another problem becuase I already have a formula in that cell. Can you have more then 1 formula in a cell? I know you can do multiple conditional formating but that won't work across workbooks. I'll have to rework the format to make it all work. Thanks Brian -----Original Message----- Hi just to add to Tom: - first: always best to stay in the original thread: - it is of course easy to mechanically link two different cells and bold one of these cells (e.g. using a conditional format with a defined name in combination) BUT: This is probably not what you want and I can fully understand Tom why he is not able to offer a solution (I can't either...). What you have to tell us is the LOGIC how these cells should be linkes. To give you an example: - lets say cell B2 on your second sheet contains an 'X' - now you want to bold one cell on sheet 1 HOW do you determine WHICH cell to bold. How are these cells linkes or how do they correspond with each other (this is what Tom meant with 'matching' - at least I hope he meant this). Excel (we) have to know the algorithmn behing your bolding) -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany "Tom Ogilvy" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I gave up. Perhaps someone else can help. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Brian W." wrote in message ... Hi Tom, It's Brian again from the posts about making something bold if I type an X somewhere else. Maybe I'm asking the wrong thing- What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. I won't bother you anymore after this. Thanks Brian . |
Tom Ogilvy or anyone that can help
AFAIK, it can't check the value of a cell in another
workbook. Worked fine for me in another workbook if I created a reference to the other workbook in a defined name defined in the workbook with the formatting and both workbooks were open. xl97 SR2. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Myrna Larson" wrote in message ... First of all, IF statement cannot change formatting, period. You could use conditional formatting if the cell to be tested is on the same worksheet, in the same workbook. AFAIK, it can't check the value of a cell in another workbook. You would have to write a VBA macro to change formatting in this way. And it won't be dynamic unless you use a Event macro in the workbook where you are entering the X What I want is some kind of Nested IF function that says If this cell contains the letter X then BOLD the text in another cell. The cells in question will be in 2 different workbooks. |
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