Hello.

Is there a way to bypass Conditional Formatting if 1) you need more than
three different formats or 2) you have a problem with people
cutting/pasting information which removes the conditional formatting?

I have a spreadsheet setup with conditional formatting. If cell C4
meets a specific criteria, then cells C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7 all are
formatted as designed. I would like to find a formula/VBA script that I
could setup and use that would accomplish the same task, but not use
Conditional Formatting.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! I am pulling my hair out!!

Thanks.

Bruise

You can change the colour - or indeed any defined formattting of a
cell - by using a routine called by the Workbook_SheetCalculate,
Workbook_SheetSelectionChange or similar events. Just use an IF
statement or any other logical test that results in a change in
formatting.

For example:

If Cells(2,3).Value = <some condition Then
Cells(2,3).Interior.ColorIndex = 20
End If

see if you can adapt this. if c3 is a number, it will color c3:c7 green.
test it out. right click the sheet name, choose view code and paste it on
the sheet code page if you only want it on one sheet

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
With Range("c3:c7")
If Application.IsNumber(Range("c3")) Then

.Interior.ColorIndex = 35
Else
.Interior.ColorIndex = 0

End If
End With
End Sub


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Gary


"Bruise" wrote in message
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Hello.

Is there a way to bypass Conditional Formatting if 1) you need more than
three different formats or 2) you have a problem with people
cutting/pasting information which removes the conditional formatting?

I have a spreadsheet setup with conditional formatting. If cell C4 meets
a specific criteria, then cells C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7 all are formatted as
designed. I would like to find a formula/VBA script that I could setup
and use that would accomplish the same task, but not use Conditional
Formatting.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! I am pulling my hair out!!

Thanks.

Bruise

Thanks, Gary. This does work. If I wanted the value to be a specific
text (i.e., "SOLD", or "EMPTY"), the IsNumber reference won't work.
What would be the one for text and how would I write that one?

Thanks again. This helps out a ton!

Mark


Gary Keramidas wrote:
see if you can adapt this. if c3 is a number, it will color c3:c7 green.
test it out. right click the sheet name, choose view code and paste it on
the sheet code page if you only want it on one sheet

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
With Range("c3:c7")
If Application.IsNumber(Range("c3")) Then

.Interior.ColorIndex = 35
Else
.Interior.ColorIndex = 0

End If
End With
End Sub

give this a try, adjust the range to your liking

Option Explicit
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

If Target.Count = 1 Then
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("C1:C17")) Is Nothing Then

If UCase(Target) = "EMPTY" Or UCase(Target.Value) = "SOLD" Then

Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 35
Else
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 0
End If
End If
End If
End Sub

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Gary


"Bruise" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Gary. This does work. If I wanted the value to be a specific
text (i.e., "SOLD", or "EMPTY"), the IsNumber reference won't work. What
would be the one for text and how would I write that one?

Thanks again. This helps out a ton!

Mark


Gary Keramidas wrote:
see if you can adapt this. if c3 is a number, it will color c3:c7 green.
test it out. right click the sheet name, choose view code and paste it on
the sheet code page if you only want it on one sheet

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
With Range("c3:c7")
If Application.IsNumber(Range("c3")) Then

.Interior.ColorIndex = 35
Else
.Interior.ColorIndex = 0

End If
End With
End Sub

Here is a subsequent issue... using the VBA code

If UCase(Target.Value) = "text" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 23

Whenever I press the DEL key to delete the content of the cell, a 13
runtime error pops up.

How can I make sure this does not occur?


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can you post all of the code. the word text in your example needs to be
capitalized for it to work, but that won't explain the error you're getting.

what it's doing is comparing the upper case value of the cell to the word
text and since text is lower case, it will never work. ucase is used so that
no matter how the word text is typed into the cell, it will always evaluate
to upper case, so ="TEXT" is how it should read

you could also change it to if lcase(target.value) and leave ="text" how it
is. same thing.

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Here is a subsequent issue... using the VBA code

If UCase(Target.Value) = "text" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 23

Whenever I press the DEL key to delete the content of the cell, a 13
runtime error pops up.

How can I make sure this does not occur?


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