Why not simply use conditional format?
Sam Mathai Chacko
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tiffany <tiffany....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm a little new to VBA but have managed to put together a macro that half
> achieves its intended purpose.
>
> Depending on what is chosen in a data validation cell (any cell in range
> S8 to AL8), the macro is supposed to change the format of 296 cells below
> the data validation cell:
>
> - If "Amount" is chosen in the data validation cell, the format in
> cells below should change to "Comma" style (i.e., 0.00). This works.
> - If "Percent" is chosen in the data validation cell, the format in
> cells below should change to "0.000000%". This doesn't work. I'm stumped
> since the language looks right to me and no debugging error pops up. Any
> ideas?
>
> The macro I have now is copied below. Any help you could provide would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
>
> Dim SAType As Range
> Set SAType = Range("S8:AL8")
>
> If Not Application.Intersect(Target, SAType) Is Nothing Then
> On Error Resume Next
> Select Case SAType
> Case "Amount"
> Target.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1:A296").Style = "Comma"
> Case "Percent"
> Target.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1:A296").NumberFormat =
> "0.000000%"
> End Select
> End If
> End Sub
>
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