I am trying to clear a range of cells with the use of a variable. For some background I have values in A-G that will be updated regularly while the values in I-K need to remain constant.
I am trying to use the value stored in myCell (in this example A8) to guide my clear command to be everything from it to G100
Range(myCell, "G100").ClearContents
I have tried several variations of this but it never seems to take so there must be something I am missing.
Thanks for looking!
You're close.
Range(myCell, range("G100")).ClearContents
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How do I utilize named cell references in Excel that aren't absolute. I want to be able to take a formula and be able to drag it across excel and have one name cell reference update to a different named cell as I move across.
For example: I want to keep RevenuePerStay going across the formulas row and have excel updated the cell reference to the number of people staying. So
400 should be RevenuePerStay * Stay400
600 should be `RevenuePerStay * Stay600`
I tried using mixed cell reference and relative cell references using the dollar sign but excel will not accept this.
Assuming your stays are in row 5:
For this worksheet, click on cell C7 and go to create a new named range called Stays and for the formula write =C$5$ and exit the name manager.
Now change your formula in C7 to being RevenuePerStay*Stays and drag it across. This will get the right amount of stays you want each time.
In explicit answer to your question: no you would never get the name in the formula to change unless you put all scenarios in the formula using multiple if statements.
If I understand your question correctly, this method seems convoluted because you can use =RevenuePerStay*C5 and drag over the row, and it should give the answer you want.
If you really want to take the advantage of named range and make it change dynamically, you will need to incorporate with INDIRECT like this:
=RevenuePerStay*INDIRECT("Stay"&C5)
But this is assuming you have all the named ranges defined properly such as Stay200, Stay400, Stay600, Stay800, Stay1000 like below. Otherwise it will not work.
Anyone,
I've chatted with and called excel customer service with no luck. I used the formula builder (please see attached screenshot) to make sure each element of the formula is correct and returns the value for the criteria I'm trying to reference.
Everything is accurate, but it returns a value of 0. When I do the same thing in the actual sheet the data is stored in (and click a criteria cell within the criteria range) it returns the accurate value?! I'm not sure why it won't work on the other sheet. The values I am using to select are dynamic and change with a drop down. I have another, advanced, workbook (I did not create) that does the same thing and completes an even more complicated formula, but actually works so I'm not sure why this is returning a 0 value.
Photos and code/syntax: Dynamic Selection, Example 2 of it working, Example 1 of it working, Formula Builder, CountIFs, Advanced Spreadsheet working, VLOOKUP
=SUMIFS('GFEBS Pull'!Q:Q,'GFEBS Pull'!G:G,FMCOP!$C$20,'GFEBS Pull'!H:H,FMCOP!B23)
or:
=SUMIFS('GFEBS Pull'!Q:Q,'GFEBS Pull'!G:G,'FMCOP'!$C$20,'GFEBS Pull'!H:H,'FMCOP'!B23)
When I type ' around FMCOP sheet name, they disappear? I've also tried to lock the columns on the 'GFEBS Pull' sheet with no luck. Cell B23 is not locked because I'm going to copy the formula down to reference other cells. Any help is appreciated!
In this screenshot you can clearly see that both FMCOP!C20 ansd FMCOP!B23 have prefacing spaces; e.g. " HHC".
Since " HHC" will never match "HHC", fix the data returned from 'the lower table in the same screenshot'.
A Text-to-Columns, Fixed Width, Finish should do this. You could adjust the original formula like,
=SUMIFS('GFEBS Pull'!Q:Q, 'GFEBS Pull'!G:G, TRIM(FMCOP!$C$20), 'GFEBS Pull'!H:H, TRIM(FMCOP!B23))
I would caution against the latter 'bandaid' fix. Fix the original data; do not apply bandaids on-the-fly.
I've been using a conditional format formula =OR(B2=B1,B2=B3) to highlight consecutive duplicates. I then use format painter to copy the formula to all columns in my excel table.
I have set up a button that will, amongst other things, copy a workbook into a new workbook. I now want to include the above formula in this macro. My final objective is to replace all of the cells found with this formula with an asterisk (*).
I first tried to just pop the formula into the macro as a starting point -
For Each sh In Destwb.Worksheets
With sh.UsedRange.FormatConditions _
.Add(Type:=xlExpression, Formula1:="=OR(B2=B1,B2=B3)")
.Interior.Color = RGB(198, 239, 206)
End With
Next sh
But this just makes a mess of seemingly randomly highlighted cells. I'm not sure where I've gone wrong. Even column B highlights are all wrong. Could the header in B1 affect this? It doesn't when I use the CF normally. How can I expand the CF into all columns uniquely?
Finally, how do I go about working a replacement of formatted cells into this formula? Or is there a quicker/easier way to meet this end-goal?
I didn't realise I could add custom text in that way. That's moved me a good couple of steps forward.
Taking Balinti's suggestion into consideration I've tried a workaround. I was making a couple of assumptions that turned out to be wrong. I have been able to enter the CF into the Array of data that I have in my original workbook. It's not as simple as putting it into a table, but by manually selecting the range in each column and inputting the CF I have made it work.
I also wasn't sure if the formatting would carry through to the new worksheet as I have used the Paste Special command to convert the array formula to values in the new sheet. It does, however, carry the formatting across which is very handy.
It's not the perfect solution for me but it appears to be working so far. I still need to test what happens when I change the date and get updated data. It would still be interesting to know if I can move this formatting into my macro though. Any tips?
I'm using the trick described here - !A1 - to get the the range of cells up to and including the current one (typically for a Rows() function). This works great for day to day usage, and eliminates a lot of errors that I get when moving ranges around when I previously had to use an adjacent set of rows.
Unfortunately, my formulas need to be evaluatable from VBA. With __THISCELL__ as my !A1 cell, and the cell housing the formula as $Z$100 the following evaluates to an error:
Application.Evaluate(rngCell.formula)
And the following evaluates to $A$1:$Z$50
rngCell.Worksheet.Evaluate(rngCell.formula)
Obviously an approach is to replace __THISCELL__ with rngCell.Address(External:=True) prior to evaluation, but here's the kicker: I'd like to be able to execute my formula parser in a workbook which uses, say THIS_CELL, THISCELL or __THISCELL safely, and I'd also like to be able to safely execute my code in a workbook with a name like __NOT__THIS_CELL__.
All I need for this is a mechanism to evaluate relative references relative to a specific cell address - which since people do use R1C1 references in VBA a fair bit, I imagine must be around. However, I don't know it. Can anyone help?
NB: I like to avoid fiddling with ActiveCell, Selection, etc. where possible, since those smell like the excel equivalent of SendKeys - who knows what the user is doing when you access them. Even then, though, I'm not certain I'll get the right answer, because for the Worksheet.Evaluate approach, I'm not positioned in cell $A$1!
If I understand your question, I believe you're looking for the Range().Offset method.
Range().Offset(rOffset, cOffset) refers to a range that is rOffset lower and cOffset to the right of the given range (negative values for up and left are allowed). Also, .Offset can access and set all of the properties of the range, just like you would do with .Range.
The approach I've taken for the time being is implicit in the question: when a named range is detected, store the current selection and worksheet, select the one which we use as the evaluation context, and then use Evaluate. This seems to work, provided the cell being evaluated is inside the activesheet.
I don't like jumping the selection all over the place - feels dirty - but short of a more elegant solution, it does work.
I have a macro to write, quite simple.
It just pulls numeric values from a Database and pops them into certain cells.
Problem is, I want the layout and design of the worksheet to be able to be changed without a care of the underlying macro. So obviously the cell references will change, for the cells that I need to populate with data.
Is there a way to mark a cell - say with "VALUE1" - in the background, and then reference that cell by using "VALUE1" - without needing to know its exact Cell position? So that its value can be updated - wherever it is on the Work Sheet?
Is there a TAG property or something that could be used? Although a function would have to be written to search through all the TAGs of every cell, but that is OK.
Any ideas?
I think this could be a bonus for any Macro developer :)
Office Documentation: Define and use names in formulas.