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Would love some assitance on a Macro used to retrict users from
entering more than 255 characters in a cell. The following is the code (a modified John Walkenback code): Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) Dim cell As Range Dim DataOK As Boolean Dim Msg As String DataOK = True For Each cell In Target If Len(cell) 255 Then DataOK = False cell.Value = Left(cell, 255) End If Next cell If Not DataOK Then Msg = "We cannot exceed 255 characters! Your text has been shortened." MsgBox Msg, vbCritical, End If End Sub This works great until I run other macros that copy a row from another sheet or inserts new rows, then it locks up on the "If Len(cell)" line. One example of an additional macro that will not run now is: Sub AddLumRow() Application.ScreenUpdating = False Sheets("CALC").Visible = True Dim numlum As Integer numlum = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("SCHEDULE").Range("Q4") Rows(numlum + 5).EntireRow.Select Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown, CopyOrigin:=xlFormatFromRightOrBelow Sheets("CALC").Range("A4:V4").Copy ActiveCell.Offset(0, 0).Select ActiveSheet.Paste ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Select ActiveCell.Select Application.CutCopyMode = False Sheets("CALC").Visible = False End Sub I have tried validating the range as a string prior to running the next if statement as follows and it does not catch the cells that are over 255 characters: Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) Dim cell As Range Dim DataOK As Boolean Dim Msg As String DataOK = True For Each cell In Target If WorksheetFunction.IsText(cell) = True Then If Len(cell) 255 Then DataOK = False cell.Value = Left(cell, 255) End If End If Next cell If Not DataOK Then Msg = "We cannot exceed 255 characters! Your text has been shortened." MsgBox Msg, vbCritical, Title End If End Sub |
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