We regularly export from Access to Excel, and it would be helpful if there
were a way to program Excel to highlight fields that contained a certain
value. If it could automatically detect when 'Check Part Number' was in the
Part Number field and highlight the cell in red, that would be pretty cool.
Any suggestions?
-Pete

have u tried using conditional formating. In excel, you can select the
entire column and use conditional format under the format menu path.

dmoney

"Author" wrote:

We regularly export from Access to Excel, and it would be helpful if there
were a way to program Excel to highlight fields that contained a certain
value. If it could automatically detect when 'Check Part Number' was in the
Part Number field and highlight the cell in red, that would be pretty cool.
Any suggestions?
-Pete

You, sir, are correct. This is not the exact solution I was looking for as
it involves me actually manipulating the file, but it looks like the one I'll
be using. I would use a macro, but our intranet don't allow their kind in
these parts.
Muchas truchas, have a great day!
-Pete

"dmoney" wrote:

have u tried using conditional formating. In excel, you can select the
entire column and use conditional format under the format menu path.

dmoney

"Author" wrote:

We regularly export from Access to Excel, and it would be helpful if there
were a way to program Excel to highlight fields that contained a certain
value. If it could automatically detect when 'Check Part Number' was in the
Part Number field and highlight the cell in red, that would be pretty cool.
Any suggestions?
-Pete