Highlight cells based on cell content with Excel VBA - vba

Question

This is for an Microsoft Excel VBA macro. What it is supposed to do, for every row, when "Late" is entered into column C, to highlight the cell 2 spaces to the left and Range of cells 3 spaces to the right through 43. So example is C4 contains "Late", highlight A4 and F4:AW4. Same goes for the word "Hold" just a different color.
Private Sub Highlight_Condition(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim lastRow As Long
Dim cell As Range
Dim i As Long
With ActiveSheet
lastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp).Row
Application.EnableEvents = False
For i = lastRow To 1 Step -1
If .Range("C" & i).Value = "LATE" Then
Debug.Print "Checking Row: " & i
.Range("A" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
ElseIf .Range("C" & i).Value = "HOLD" Then
.Range("A" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
Else
.Range("A" & i & ":AW" & i).ClearContents
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).ClearContents
End If
Next i
Application.EnableEvents = True
End With
End Sub

Answer 1

This should work for you...
Private Sub Highlight_Condition(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim lastRow As Long
Dim cell As Range
Dim i As Long
With ActiveSheet
lastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp).Row
Application.EnableEvents = False
For i = lastRow To 1 Step -1
If .Range("C" & i).Value = "LATE" Then
Debug.Print "Checking Row: " & i
.Range("A" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
ElseIf .Range("C" & i).Value = "HOLD" Then
.Range("A" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
Else
.Range("A" & i & ":AW" & i).ClearContents
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).ClearContents
End If
Next i
Application.EnableEvents = True
End With
End Sub
Tested and seems to work fine for me :)

Answer 2

... C4 contains "Late" ... (emphasis mine)
This seems to indicate that Late may be part of a longer string. I will code to that effect.
Conditional formatting rules are a quick method of achieving your cell highlighting and respond as soon as values in column C change without rerunning the sub procedure (unless more values are added below the lastRow).
Option Explicit
Sub Macro1()
Const TEST_COLUMN As String = "D"
Dim lastRow As Long, sSheetName As String
sSheetName = ActiveSheet.Name
With Worksheets(sSheetName)
lastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, TEST_COLUMN).End(xlUp).Row
With .Range("A4:A" & lastRow & ", F4:AW" & lastRow)
.FormatConditions.Delete
.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression, Formula1:="=isnumber(search(""late"", $c4))"
.FormatConditions(.FormatConditions.Count).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression, Formula1:="=isnumber(search(""hold"", $c4))"
.FormatConditions(.FormatConditions.Count).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
End With
End With
End Sub

Answer 3

Great! I wanted to run this in the worksheet and not as a module. So i added a few extra lines and ByVal Target As Range to fire everytime a change is made in the range but it doesn't seem to work. Am i missing something?
Private Sub Highlight_Condition(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim cell As Range
Dim i As Long
With ActiveSheet
LastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp).Row
Application.EnableEvents = False
For i = LastRow To 1 Step -1
If .Range("C" & i).Value = "LATE" Then
Debug.Print "Checking Row: " & i
.Range("A" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 39
ElseIf .Range("C" & i).Value = "HOLD" Then
.Range("A" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
.Range("F" & i & ":AW" & i).Interior.ColorIndex = 43
Else
.Range("A" & i).EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
End If
Next i
Application.EnableEvents = True
End With
End Sub