getting data out of merged cells

[vbnewbiebastard]

hey... I'm making a vb script that beeps and gives a msgbox if a user types in more than 25 characters in a string. The following code works when I try it with 1 cell, but I get a data mismatch error when I try to check the contents of a merged cell. Is there something besides excel.range.value I should be using?

Thanks in advance,

-ROb

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
Dim ThisCell As String
If Target.Column = 2 And Target.Row = 15 Then
ThisCell = Mid(Target.Value, 26, 1)
If ThisCell <> "" Then
Beep
foo = MsgBox("Please enter no more than 26 characters", vbOKOnly)
Target.Value = "enter text here"
End If
End If
End Sub

[Damon Ostrander]

Hi vbnewbie,

The problem is that a merged cell is actually a range containing more than one cell, and you can't access the Value property of a range containing more than one cell. I believe in your case the problem will go away if you change all your references to Target.Value to Target.Cells(1).Value, which just yields the first cell in the range (which is where the displayed cell contents reside).