Creating a formula in VBA with quoted strings

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Thomas Philips

I have a cell with the following formula in cell F128 (i.e. cells(128,6):

=SUBTOTAL(1,F126:F127)

I'd like to convert this formula to the following
=text(SUBTOTAL(1,F126:F127),"0.00%") & "/" & text(x,"0.00%")

where x is a real number, and so that the contents of cell F128 become something like
2.00% / 2.50%

I can get some, but not all of this to work in VBA. In particular, if I write
cells(128,6).formula = "=text(" & Mid(Trim(Cells(128, 6).Formula), 2) & ", ""0.00%"" )"

the formula in cell F128 becomes
=text(SUBTOTAL(1,F126:F127),"0.00%")

which solves the first part of my problem, but i I extend it to

cells(128,6).formula = "=text(" & Mid(Trim(Cells(128, 6).Formula), 2) & ", ""0.00%"" )" & "" / ""

it chokes and gives me an run-time error 1004 - Application-defined or object-defined error. I'd be very appreciative if someone could point out the flaw in my method, and point me in the right direction.

Sincerely

Thomas Philips
 
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tkpmep

Figured it out by trying out stuff from other posts in this group:


Cells(BottomRow, 6).Formula = "=text(" & Mid(Trim(Cells(BottomRow, 6).Formula), 2) & ", ""0.00%"" )" & " & " & Chr(34) & " / " & Chr(34) & " & text(" & x & ", ""0.00%"" )"

where x is a real number.
 

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