HI

OK thanks for your help with that - worked perfectly , first time.

Much appreciated.

I made a small variation , so that positive numbers , as well as
negative , could be entered :

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1="=RC[1]+"&intNumber


Thanks again.

Best wishes.




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Matt Richardson writes
On 27 Jan, 11:16, Matt Richardson wrote:
On 27 Jan, 05:16, Colin Hayes wrote:

Hi

I have a piece of code as part of a macro which subtracts 1 from a value
in cell D2

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=RC[1]-1"

Sometimes , I need to vary this number. Rather than open the macro and
change the code each time , is it possible to program a popup to request
the value of the variable , and once executed proceed with the rest of
the macro?

Any help appreciated.

This might work. Put it at the top of your code:-

Dim intNumber as integer
intNumber = inputbox("Please enter the number you wish to subtract
by","Enter number")

This will then store the number you wish to subtract by into the
variable intNumber. The next bit of your code would then look like
this:-

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1="=RC[1]-"&intNumber

And that should pretty much do the trick. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Matt Richardsonhttp://teachr.blogspot.com

You might want to change the 'Dim intnumber...' bit to this actually:-

Dim intNumber as double

The prior version will only work with integers and therefore would
only work with whole numbers. Changing the type of variable means
that you can subtract decimals as well.

Regards,
Matt Richardson
http://teachr.blogspot.com