I am new to excel programming and am not able to get it to work.
Can someone help me with this?
How can I Compare the text values in cell A and B and populate cell C
accordingly?

A is a dropdown with following values
compile, edit, audit

B is a dropdown and has the same values as A
compile, edit, audit

C is a text box that auto populates with 'Descripency' depending on what is
selected for A and B.

What I am thinking should be done is:
Compare the text strings in A and B using StrComp() function,
It will return a value -1,0,1
Then write an If statement to populate the value in C.

But, How does excel compare the text values in A and B?
For eg, I want Discrepancy to be populated in C if audit is selected in B
and edit is selected in A. How will excel know this? I cannot manualy write
down what text value preeceds what as there are a LOT of values.

I hope I made it clear.

Thanks in Advance

I am probably confused as to what you want, but is this what you're
looking for---put the following in as a formula in column C:
=IF(A1=B1,"","Discrepancy")

Sam
I think you are making this overly complicated, or I'm missing
something. Use something like this:
If Range("A1")="edit" and Range("B1")="audit" then Range("C1")="Discrepancy"
You will need more code if you want to loop through a range or if you want
to employ an event occurrence.
Provide more detail about what you have and what you want to do. HTH Otto
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I am new to excel programming and am not able to get it to work.
Can someone help me with this?
How can I Compare the text values in cell A and B and populate cell C
accordingly?

A is a dropdown with following values
compile, edit, audit

B is a dropdown and has the same values as A
compile, edit, audit

C is a text box that auto populates with 'Descripency' depending on what
is
selected for A and B.

What I am thinking should be done is:
Compare the text strings in A and B using StrComp() function,
It will return a value -1,0,1
Then write an If statement to populate the value in C.

But, How does excel compare the text values in A and B?
For eg, I want Discrepancy to be populated in C if audit is selected in B
and edit is selected in A. How will excel know this? I cannot manualy
write
down what text value preeceds what as there are a LOT of values.

I hope I made it clear.

Thanks in Advance

Sam,
You could try this:
In Cell C2 type "=If(A2=B2,"Yes","Discrepency")" without the "".
What this does is no matter what is selected in A or B if they don't match,
Discrepency.
hth

"sam" wrote:

I am new to excel programming and am not able to get it to work.
Can someone help me with this?
How can I Compare the text values in cell A and B and populate cell C
accordingly?

A is a dropdown with following values
compile, edit, audit

B is a dropdown and has the same values as A
compile, edit, audit

C is a text box that auto populates with 'Descripency' depending on what is
selected for A and B.

What I am thinking should be done is:
Compare the text strings in A and B using StrComp() function,
It will return a value -1,0,1
Then write an If statement to populate the value in C.

But, How does excel compare the text values in A and B?
For eg, I want Discrepancy to be populated in C if audit is selected in B
and edit is selected in A. How will excel know this? I cannot manualy write
down what text value preeceds what as there are a LOT of values.

I hope I made it clear.

Thanks in Advance

If you have dropdown A ,B and textBox C in Userform, try something like
this. This code should be written in Userform module.
ComboBox1 means dropdown A, ComboBox2 means dropdown B and textBox C
means TextBox1.

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
If ComboBox1.Value < ComboBox2.Value Then
Me.TextBox1.Text = "Discrepancy"
Else
Me.TextBox1.Text = ""
End If
End Sub

Private Sub ComboBox2_Change()
If ComboBox1.Value < ComboBox2.Value Then
Me.TextBox1.Text = "Discrepancy"
Else
Me.TextBox1.Text = ""
End If
End Sub

Keiji

sam wrote:
I am new to excel programming and am not able to get it to work.
Can someone help me with this?
How can I Compare the text values in cell A and B and populate cell C
accordingly?

A is a dropdown with following values
compile, edit, audit

B is a dropdown and has the same values as A
compile, edit, audit

C is a text box that auto populates with 'Descripency' depending on what is
selected for A and B.

What I am thinking should be done is:
Compare the text strings in A and B using StrComp() function,
It will return a value -1,0,1
Then write an If statement to populate the value in C.

But, How does excel compare the text values in A and B?
For eg, I want Discrepancy to be populated in C if audit is selected in B
and edit is selected in A. How will excel know this? I cannot manualy write
down what text value preeceds what as there are a LOT of values.

I hope I made it clear.

Thanks in Advance