Alternative to Conditional Formatting

[Bruise]

Hello.

Is there a way to bypass Conditional Formatting if 1) you need more than
three different formats or 2) you have a problem with people
cutting/pasting information which removes the conditional formatting?

I have a spreadsheet setup with conditional formatting. If cell C4
meets a specific criteria, then cells C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7 all are
formatted as designed. I would like to find a formula/VBA script that I
could setup and use that would accomplish the same task, but not use
Conditional Formatting.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! I am pulling my hair out!!

Thanks.

Bruise

 

[JakeyC]

You can change the colour - or indeed any defined formattting of a
cell - by using a routine called by the Workbook_SheetCalculate,
Workbook_SheetSelectionChange or similar events. Just use an IF
statement or any other logical test that results in a change in
formatting.

For example:

If Cells(2,3).Value = <some condition> Then
Cells(2,3).Interior.ColorIndex = 20
End If

 

[Gary Keramidas]

see if you can adapt this. if c3 is a number, it will color c3:c7 green.
test it out. right click the sheet name, choose view code and paste it on
the sheet code page if you only want it on one sheet

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
With Range("c3:c7")
If Application.IsNumber(Range("c3")) Then

.Interior.ColorIndex = 35
Else
.Interior.ColorIndex = 0

End If
End With
End Sub

 

[Bruise]

Thanks, Gary. This does work. If I wanted the value to be a specific
text (i.e., "SOLD", or "EMPTY"), the IsNumber reference won't work.
What would be the one for text and how would I write that one?

Thanks again. This helps out a ton!

Mark

 

[Gary Keramidas]

give this a try, adjust the range to your liking

Option Explicit
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

If Target.Count = 1 Then
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("C1:C17")) Is Nothing Then

If UCase(Target) = "EMPTY" Or UCase(Target.Value) = "SOLD" Then

Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 35
Else
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 0
End If
End If
End If
End Sub

 

[simtug]

Here is a subsequent issue... using the VBA code

If UCase(Target.Value) = "text" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 23

Whenever I press the DEL key to delete the content of the cell, a 13
runtime error pops up.

How can I make sure this does not occur?

 

[Gary Keramidas]

can you post all of the code. the word text in your example needs to be
capitalized for it to work, but that won't explain the error you're getting.

what it's doing is comparing the upper case value of the cell to the word
text and since text is lower case, it will never work. ucase is used so that
no matter how the word text is typed into the cell, it will always evaluate
to upper case, so ="TEXT" is how it should read

you could also change it to if lcase(target.value) and leave ="text" how it
is. same thing.

 

[simtug]

Hi, Gary, my aim is to change the color of cells depending on the tex
typed in by the end user. The conditional formatting option is no
feasible.



The VBA code I have used goes as follows:



Option Explicit
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

If Not Intersect(Target, Range("U4")) Is Nothing Then

If UCase(Target.Value) = "0" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 43
Else
If UCase(Target.Value) = "A1" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 17
Else
If UCase(Target.Value) = "A2" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 23
Else
If UCase(Target.Value) = "B1" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 44
Else
If UCase(Target.Value) = "B2" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 46
Else
If UCase(Target.Value) = "C1" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 39
Else
If UCase(Target.Value) = "C2" Then
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 47
Else

End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End If
End Sub





When I place the cursor in the U4 cell and I change the previou
inserted text with a different one no problem, but when I want t
delete the previous typed text by pressing del DEL key (which i
something the end user is routinely doing) I get a runtime error (13
alerting about a non-corrisponding type error.


Any help how to avoid the error window to pop up?



Thank you very much for any help!
Simon

 

[Gary Keramidas]

i don't get any error when i delete the contents of u4.

i did add a line to change the background back if the value isn't one of the
one's you're testing for. i don't know why you get a runtime error.

Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 47
Else
Target.Interior.ColorIndex = 0
End If

 

[Norman Jones]

Hi Simtug,

Like Gary, I could not replicate your error.

Which specific line of code is highlighted when the error occurs?