How to find enter and space in the excel cell value by uisng VBA. For example if the cell value contain value like "Some value" then How to find that this cell contain space. In second case if the cellvalue contain Enter like while typing values in a cell if someone write "Some" and the press enter and then write "value" then how to find this enter.
I am using excel 2007
Thanks
You can't hit enter to get a new line in Excel, you have to hit alt + Enter. You can use the VBA constant vbLf in your Instr to find it.
Jesse
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I have inherited a massive spreadsheet with many sheets, and many formulas that have a lot of absolute references.
These sheets need to be combined into one, is there an easy way to identify absolute references quickly with VBA?
I was thinking of some conditional formatting for cells that contain "$" but that doesn't work.
Alternatively I figured a script could run through each cell and evaluate it's absolute contents, if it identifies a "$" it then formats the cell and moves on to the next.
Thanks for your time :)
You can easily do this with conditional formatting:
Mark all your data
Select "conditional formatting", "New rule"
Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
Enter the formula =FIND("$",FORMULATEXT(A1))>0 (assuming that the first cell you selected is [A1]. FORMULATEXT will look for the text of the formula of a cell and FIND will search for a $ within that formula.
Do not forget to set the formatting, e.g. a fill color
A simple solution for even basic users:
Ctrl+F (search),
enter search parameter "$" (in this case),
Ensure the drop boxes have selected:
Within: Sheet
Search: By Rows
Look in: Formulas
Uncheck the "Match entire cell contents" checkbox,
click "Find all"
In the list that appears within the search window,
select all of the entries, it will select the entire search group.
Apply formatting to the selection to highlight these cells.
On of our offices started their text data with an equals sign, which, when imported into the spreadsheet, gave the #NAME? error.
Now, I know I can change the cell format to text and then click in the formula bar, and excel recognizes the cell as text, but is there a way to do this through VBA?
EXAMPLE:
Cell display value: #NAME?
cell text =-Notice, ABC
Desired OUTPUT: Notice, ABC
now, normally, I'd do something like
sub convert_it()
if left(cells(1,1).value,2) ="=-" then cells(1,1).value = _
right(cells(1,1).value, len(cells(1,1).value) -2)
end sub
but that returns a type mismatch error.
Is there some way I can get the text in the cell without manually clicking?
I can click a few thousand times and then Excel recognizes it as text again, and not as an error, but I'd rather avoid that.
You can do this with VB, or just highlight the whole sheet, hit CTRL-H, type = in the Find and '= in the Replace, then click Replace All. This will make Excel stop thinking that these are formulas.
Instead of using .Value you have to use .Formula, since it's being interpreted as such here:
sub convert_it()
if left(cells(1,1).formula,2) ="=-" then cells(1,1).formula = _
right(cells(1,1).formula, len(cells(1,1).formula) -2)
end sub
Naturally you would place your code within a loop for the column. But I agree that it might be easier to just do a large find/replace.
I'm working on a userform for an excel sheet I'm working on. I have a specific text box in the userform for a work order number (named txtWO). I would like to pre-concatenate the user-entered value from this text box (a 5-digit string) with the text 'WO-' and then insert it into a cell in the worksheet. The small bit of VBA I have written to do this is shown below.
ws.Cells(iRow, 2).Formula = "=CONCATENATE(""WO-"",me.txtWO.Value)"
Where iRow is a value, formatted as long, that represents the value of the first empty row in the worksheet.
This is all syntactically correct, as far as the VBA is concerned, but after the the value is inserted in the cell, I receive a #NAME? error. When I show the calculation steps for the formula, 'Me.txtWO.Value' evaluates to a #NAME? error.
I can't tell if this is happening because something is wrong with my VBA, or if I am misunderstanding how to work with text box values. But if anyone can shed any light, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
-Sean
Excel's cells can't access the textbox value. Just do everything in VBA like so:
ws.Cells(iRow, 2).Value = "WO-" & me.txtWO.Value
I've a problem with this VBA macro.
Sub demoChangeText()
Application.Range("B2").Value = "Overidden text"
End Sub
My test is here. To run this macro, open it in Excel, press Ctrl+F8 and choose demoChangeText.
As the result, this macro changes the value of cell B2 (the text displayed to us) but clear its formula. I need to change B2's value BUT also need the formula to be remained.
So my question is How to change the display text of cell without changing its formula?
UPDATE
I ask this question because I'm trying to solve this problem
I'm not sure if this will help, as it is a bit hard to tell what your underlying requirement is, but here goes anyway:
Several things affect the display of a cell:
the entered value, if its a constant
the result of a calculation, if its a formula
the format of the cell
the conditional format(s) of the cell, if any
In the example sheet provided you have a formula of =ROW()&COLUMN() which returns a string result of 22
You can make this display something else by applying a cell format,
eg a format of 0;0;0;Ov\e\r\ri\d\d\e\n t\ext will display any string value as Overridden text
This can by applied with VBA with
Range("B2").NumberFormat = "0;0;0;Ov\e\r\ri\d\d\e\n t\ext\s"
or
Range("B2").NumberFormat = "0;0;0;""Overridden texts"""
I need help with a formatting issue in Excel, which is interfering with the VLOOKUP function in my Excel sheet.
I have two sheets with more than 20,000 column values as lookup, and the same number of values for reference. All the values in both cells are weirdly formatted, some with green triangles at the upper left corner of cells, some are text, etc.
Is there a way in Excel using a macro/VBA to remove or make all formatting similar in both sheets? The reason for VBA is because the person who is going to work with this file needs everything automated and is not familiar with Excel at all. I already have the VLOOKUP function in the cells, I just need to work with the formatting.
Well, I fight with partial lookups this way:
In the items array, I create new empty FIRST column and then place formula
="+"&B2
This will take the content of Cell B2 and add + in the front of it.
When I do vlookup, I add "+" to searcheable value
=VLOOKUP("+"&A6,A:O,2,FALSE)
Therefore, instead of comparing for example Strings and numbers, I compare Strings, by adding "+" in the front.
Another technique, is to kill all formatting:
Select whole column, click DATA-TEXT TO COLUMNS-DELIMITED and then DESELECT ALL DELIMITERS. Click Finish. This will clear your formatting.
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This is the VBA solution you asked for:
Call it from Excel
=GetLookup(G2,A:C)
Here is VBA:
Function GetLookup(LOOKFOR As String, RANGEARRAY As Range) As String
GetLookup = Application.WorksheetFunction.VLookup("+" & LOOKFOR, RANGEARRAY, 3, False)
End Function
Good luck!
I'm assuming the data type in all of the cells is the same, or you want it to all be the same. The following steps will make the cells a uniform type:
Save your workbook, in case this does not do as you require
Select all cells you wish to be of the same cell type
Press Ctrl+1, on the "Number" tab, select the type you wish these cells to take. Press OK.
Open the VBA editor using Alt+F11
Open the immediate window with Ctrl+G
Type the following: for each cell in selection : cell.formula = cell.value : next cell
Press enter (you may have to wait a few seconds).
If you take this action with the same data type (e.g. choose "Text" for both ranges in step 3) on both your ranges you should be "comparing apples with apples" and your VLOOKUP should function as required.
Hope this helps.
Edit: formatting, clarification