Copy format of cell from other worksheet

[sirjibby]

When you tell a cell to display the contents of a cell from another worksheet
(eg. if in a cell from Sheet2 I put the formula ='Sheet1'!A1), how do you
also get it to use the formatting of that cell?

Thanks in advance for looking!

 

[Dave Peterson]

Formulas don't return this kind of formatting. They return values.

You could copy|paste or have a macro do it.

 

[sirjibby]

Ok thanks for letting me know. Could you possibly explain quickly how I would
get a macro to do that?

 

[Gord Dibben]

As quickly as you can record yourself doing the copy then Paste
Special>Paste links and Paste Special>Formats.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Dave Peterson]

On top of what Gord suggested, you could have an event macro that runs that does
the copy|Paste.

But you'd have to share how the "sending" cell changed--is it because the user
typed something, or is it because the formula got reevaluated?

And if you're sharing this, share the details of what cells are sending cells
and what cells are the corresponding receiving cells.