I have 2 in-cell data validation lists in Excel. Both cells contain dropdown arrows pointing to 2 columns of a table. What I would like is for when 1 cell contains a value, the other cell contains the value from the corresponding row in the table, but its own column, and vice-versa.
So if I select a value from the dropdown in cell1 it overwrites cell2, if I select a value from the dropdown in cell2 it overwrites cell1
i.e. for a table GoalTbl with columns cl and d; a cell named cl_val contains a data validation list pointing to GoalTbl[cl]. Another cell called d_val points to GoalTbl[d]
And so to get a d_val based on cl_val I use a formula like =INDEX(GoalTbl[d],MATCH(cl_val,GoalTbl[cl],0))
Similarly to get a value for cl_val based on d_val, =INDEX(GoalTbl[cl],MATCH(d_val,GoalTbl[d],0))
I can't put these formulae in their respective cells for 2 reasons:
Since each formula refers to the other cell, I would get a circular reference
If I use the drop-down arrow to select a value, it overwrites the formula in that cell
So can I get this linked functionality by changing the lists that the data validation points to - or with a VBA approach?
I suppose this is a combination of a dynamic default formula for a validation, and an overwriting mechanism for 1 cell based on the other - 2 areas I'm not sure how to tackle simultaneously with formulae.
Thanks for the pointer towards Worksheet_Change, I have a VBA approach;
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, [cl_val]) Is Nothing Then
With Application.WorksheetFunction
UI False
[d_val] = .Index([Goaltbl[d]], .Match([cl_val], [Goaltbl[cl]], 0))
UI True
End With
ElseIf Not Intersect(Target, [d_val]) Is Nothing Then
With Application.WorksheetFunction
UI False
[cl_val] = .Index([Goaltbl[cl]], .Match([d_val], [Goaltbl[d]], 0))
UI True
End With
End If
End Sub
Where UI is simply a Sub* to turn on/off screen updating and events (I have a Worksheet_Calculate macro elsewhere which I don't want triggered)
Still, a function approach would be nice to know about - I'm sure something can be done by changing the list input
*UI code for reference
Public Sub UI(t As Boolean)
Application.EnableEvents = t
Application.ScreenUpdating = t
End Sub
I am currently trying to obtain historical information about how the backlog is developing.
My Excel file is based on queries from an Access Database which can give me a view of the current situation.
I would like to automatically run a macro every time the week number changes. I am currently using the following code:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Target.Worksheet.Range("D3")) Is Nothing Then
Call KPIupdate
End If
End Sub
The macro that should fire is called KPIupdate
My problem is that the Macro only fires if I click the cell. I would like it to just fire when the number changes. The cell "D3" is linked to another cell with the formula =Weeknum(Today();21)
I hope you can help me
According to the MSDN entry for Worksheet_Change:
This event does not occur when cells change during a recalculation. Use the Calculate event to trap a sheet recalculation.
To use Worksheet_Calculate to trap the change in a cell that is set by a formula looking at another cell, you need to set a variable to hold the value of the 'Target' and then check if it has changed after the Calculate event fires.
Here is a simple example:
Option Explicit
Private strCurrentWeek As String
Private Sub Worksheet_Calculate()
If Me.Range("A1").Value <> strCurrentWeek Then
'the linked cell changed
Debug.Print "Sheet1!A1 was changed"
'call another macro
End If
'update the new current week
strCurrentWeek = Me.Range("A1").Value
End Sub
To test this, just set the formula in A1 to be =B1 and then change the value of B1 and check the output in the Immediate window.
You can adapt this code to call KPIupdate where my Debug.Print... statement is.
This is a question that was asked to me in an interview. I have a excel list. It is copied to another location and then by mistake a row in the new location gets deleted.
Now I need to write a macro to compare the old and new ranges and then provide the missing data as result.
I can perhaps perform the comparison part. But the problem is I don't know how to get the selected range as input in a macro.
For eg. as soon as I select a range, it should be sent as input to the macro, then the macro should wait for another selection. As soon as I select the new range, the macro should compare and find the missing lines in new range.
Regarding the selection per mouse click you could look at the link I sent in the comments of the other answer. Selection_Change is an event which gets triggered when you change the selection of a worksheet (not only mouseclick but move-by-keys as well). The target coming in is the cell which you have selected. You can pass this as a range on to a function.
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
showMsg Target
End Sub
Private Function showMsg(r As Range)
MsgBox r.Address
End Function
You can just as well use another event like BeforeDoubleClick or BeforeRightClick. Check out the events of Excel and choose the one you feel fits best.
If you only want the function to be triggered for a certain range you can filter it.
If target.column <> 1 then exit function
If you don't want the event to trigger your function each time you change a selection you can choose one cell to be the switch which gets triggered by the same event.
If target.address = "$A$1" Then Call toggleSearch()
with toggleSearch being the switching function.
This is a classical diff (and a simple one at that), you shouldn't select by hand or anything. Just sort the two lists in an identical way, then run a Sub which loops over the number of rows in the source sheet comparing each row with the same row in the target sheet. The first mismatch you get is the missing line.
This example assumes both sheets are in the same workbook but you can easily adapt it
Public Sub diffThem()
Dim src as Worksheet, trg as Worksheet
Dim r as Range, i as Integer
Set src = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Source")
Set trg = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Destination")
Set r = src.Range("A1")
For i = 1 to ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Source").UsedRange.Rows.Count
If r.EntireRow <> trg.Range("A" & r.Row).EntireRow Then
MsgBox("The missing row is " & r.Row)
Exit Sub
End if
Set r = r.Offset(1,0)
Next i
End Sub
If EntireRow cannot be run due to different layouts or whatever then loop the columns at that point.
I'm trying to detect changes within an entire workbook (doesn't matter what changes) so that any change that occurs prior to save will result a specific cell getting set to a specific value. The goal is to show a visual indicator of whether the workbook is saved using conditional formatting (non issue, already have that set up).
The code I use to set the value of the cell is Sheets("Sheet1").Range("H1").Value = 1.
I've tried to detect changes by using Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range), but I'm unsure of how to set the range.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If I'm reading your question correctly, you want to setup your worksheet so that every time a change is made by a user, update the value in the cell.
You are already most of the way there, you just need to put the following subroutine in your workbook.
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("H1").Value = 1
End Sub
Once this is saved with your workbook, that specific workbook will perform the functionality you require. Here's a link to the documentation - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839775(v=office.15).aspx.
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range) 'Target is the variable name of the Range where the Change occured
If thisworkbook.saved=false then
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("H1").Value = 1
else
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("H1").Value = 0 'or other value
End if
End Sub
Is there a way to catch a click on a cell in VBA with Excel? I am not referring to the Worksheet_SelectionChange event, as that will not trigger multiple times if the cell is clicked multiple times. BeforeDoubleClick does not solve my problem either, as I do not want to require the user to double click that frequently.
My current solution does work with the SelectionChange event, but it appears to require the use of global variables and other suboptimal coding practices. It also seems prone to error.
Clearly, there is no perfect answer. However, if you want to allow the user to
select certain cells
allow them to change those cells,
and
trap each click,even repeated clicks
on the same cell,
then the easiest way seems to be to move the focus off the selected cell, so that clicking it will trigger a Select event.
One option is to move the focus as I suggested above, but this prevents cell editing. Another option is to extend the selection by one cell (left/right/up/down),because this permits editing of the original cell, but will trigger a Select event if that cell is clicked again on its own.
If you only wanted to trap selection of a single column of cells, you could insert a hidden column to the right, extend the selection to include the hidden cell to the right when the user clicked,and this gives you an editable cell which can be trapped every time it is clicked. The code is as follows
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
'prevent Select event triggering again when we extend the selection below
Application.EnableEvents = False
Target.Resize(1, 2).Select
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
In order to trap repeated clicks on the same cell, you need to move the focus to a different cell, so that each time you click, you are in fact moving the selection.
The code below will select the top left cell visible on the screen, when you click on any cell. Obviously, it has the flaw that it won't trap a click on the top left cell, but that can be managed (eg by selecting the top right cell if the activecell is the top left).
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
'put your code here to process the selection, then..
ActiveWindow.VisibleRange.Cells(1, 1).Select
End Sub
SelectionChange is the event built into the Excel Object model for this. It should do exactly as you want, firing any time the user clicks anywhere...
I'm not sure that I understand your objections to global variables here, you would only need 1 if you use the Application.SelectionChange event. However, you wouldn't need any if you utilize the Workbook class code behind (to trap the Workbook.SelectionChange event) or the Worksheet class code behind (to trap the Worksheet.SelectionChange) event. (Unless your issue is the "global variable reset" problem in VBA, for which there is only one solution: error handling everywhere. Do not allow any unhandled errors, instead log them and/or "soft-report" an error as a message box to the user.)
You might also need to trap the Worksheet.Activate() and Worksheet.Deactivate() events (or the equivalent in the Workbook class) and/or the Workbook.Activate and Workbook.Deactivate() events so that you know when the user has switched worksheets and/or workbooks. The Window activate and deactivate events should make this approach complete. They could all call the same exact procedure, however, they all denote the same thing: the user changed the "focus", if you will.
If you don't like VBA, btw, you can do the same using VB.NET or C#.
[Edit: Dbb makes a very good point about the SelectionChange event not picking up a click when the user clicks within the currently selected cell. If you need to pick that up, then you would need to use subclassing.]
I don't think so. But you can create a shape object ( or wordart or something similiar ) hook Click event and place the object to position of the specified cell.
This has worked for me.....
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Mid(Target.Address, 3, 1) = "$" And Mid(Target.Address, 2, 1) < "E" Then
' The logic in the if condition will filter for a specific cell or block of cells
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'MsgBox "You just changed " & Target.Address
'all conditions are true .... DO THE FUNCTION NEEDED
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End If
' if clicked cell is not in the range then do nothing (if condttion is not run)
End Sub
NOTE: this function in actual use recalculated a pivot table if a user added a item in a data range of A4 to D500. The there were protected and unprotected sections in the sheet so the actual check for the click is if the column is less that "E" The logic can get as complex as you want to include or exclude any number of areas
block1 = row > 3 and row < 5 and column column >"b" and < "d"
block2 = row > 7 and row < 12 and column column >"b" and < "d"
block3 = row > 10 and row < 15 and column column >"e" and < "g"
If block1 or block2 or block 3 then
do function .....
end if
I had a similar issue, and I fixed by running the macro "onTime", and by using some global variables to only run once the user has stopped clicking.
Public macroIsOnQueue As Boolean
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
macroIsOnQueue = False
Application.OnTime (Now() + TimeValue("00:00:02")), "addBordersOnRow"
macroIsOnQueue = True
End sub
Sub addBordersOnRow()
If macroIsOnQueue Then
macroIsOnQueue = False
' add code here
End if
End sub
This way, whenever the user changes selection within 2 seconds, the macroIsOnQueue variable is set to false, but the last time selection is changed, macroIsOnQueue is set to true, and the macro will run.
Hope this helps,
Have fun with VBA !!
Just a follow-up to dbb's accepted answer: Rather than adding the immediate cell on the right to the selection, why not select a cell way off the working range (i.e. a dummy cell that you know the user will never need). In the following code cell ZZ1 is the dummy cell
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Application.EnableEvents = False
Union(Target, Me.Range("ZZ1")).Select
Application.EnableEvents = True
' Respond to click/selection-change here
End Sub