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problem determining a cell's value
I have an add-in to excel that I have referenced in a formula. The add-in
retrieves a value from a database. When a value is not found, it displays 'No events found.' In an IF THEN ELSE statement, I'm checking for 'No events found.', but when the cell meets that criteria it is not matching and just goes to the 'Error' part of my Else statement (see below). My guess is that my statement is retrieving the formula in the cell, and not the formula's results. If I do a MSGBOX, I get the results and not the formula. Any thoughts? If (IsNumeric(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value)) Then MsgBox Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value 'show the value ElseIf CStr(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value) = "No events found." Then MsgBox "No events found." Else MsgBox "Error" End If I've tried it with and without the CStr function to see if it was a format conversion issue to no avail. Thanks |
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ybazizi wrote:
I have an add-in to excel that I have referenced in a formula. The add-in retrieves a value from a database. When a value is not found, it displays 'No events found.' In an IF THEN ELSE statement, I'm checking for 'No events found.', but when the cell meets that criteria it is not matching and just goes to the 'Error' part of my Else statement (see below). My guess is that my statement is retrieving the formula in the cell, and not the formula's results. If I do a MSGBOX, I get the results and not the formula. Any thoughts? If (IsNumeric(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value)) Then MsgBox Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value 'show the value ElseIf CStr(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value) = "No events found." Then MsgBox "No events found." Else MsgBox "Error" End If I've tried it with and without the CStr function to see if it was a format conversion issue to no avail. Thanks Probably add-in doesn't return string but error object visible as a string. For the same reason you can't compare cell value with "#N/A" or "#DIV/0" as strings to determine if there is error in the cell Try to use IsError function. |
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My guess is that the cell doesn't contain that exact text, maybe it has a
leading or trailing space. Do a =LEN(A7) and see if it is 16. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "ybazizi" wrote in message ... I have an add-in to excel that I have referenced in a formula. The add-in retrieves a value from a database. When a value is not found, it displays 'No events found.' In an IF THEN ELSE statement, I'm checking for 'No events found.', but when the cell meets that criteria it is not matching and just goes to the 'Error' part of my Else statement (see below). My guess is that my statement is retrieving the formula in the cell, and not the formula's results. If I do a MSGBOX, I get the results and not the formula. Any thoughts? If (IsNumeric(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value)) Then MsgBox Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value 'show the value ElseIf CStr(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value) = "No events found." Then MsgBox "No events found." Else MsgBox "Error" End If I've tried it with and without the CStr function to see if it was a format conversion issue to no avail. Thanks |
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That was the trick. A trim took care of the problem.
"Bob Phillips" wrote: My guess is that the cell doesn't contain that exact text, maybe it has a leading or trailing space. Do a =LEN(A7) and see if it is 16. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "ybazizi" wrote in message ... I have an add-in to excel that I have referenced in a formula. The add-in retrieves a value from a database. When a value is not found, it displays 'No events found.' In an IF THEN ELSE statement, I'm checking for 'No events found.', but when the cell meets that criteria it is not matching and just goes to the 'Error' part of my Else statement (see below). My guess is that my statement is retrieving the formula in the cell, and not the formula's results. If I do a MSGBOX, I get the results and not the formula. Any thoughts? If (IsNumeric(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value)) Then MsgBox Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value 'show the value ElseIf CStr(Worksheets("Data").Range("A7").Value) = "No events found." Then MsgBox "No events found." Else MsgBox "Error" End If I've tried it with and without the CStr function to see if it was a format conversion issue to no avail. Thanks |
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