Can formulas be too big for VB

Todd Bardoni

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I wrote a rather large formula that works in Excel but, when I tried to record it in VB it said it couldn't record. So, I copied it, went into VB and Pasted it. But then I got a compile error. The formula is 562 characters long. Here's the formula:

=IF(AND(C2="New",DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)<10),"02-"&"00"&DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)&"N",IF(AND(C2="New",DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)<100,DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)>=10),"02-"&"0"&DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)&"N",IF(AND(C2="New",DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)>99),"02-"&DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)&"N",IF(AND(C2="Change",DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)<10),"02-"&"00"&DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)&"C",IF(AND(C2="Change",DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)<100,DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)>=10),"02-"&"0"&DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)&"C",IF(AND(C2="Change",DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)>99),"02-"&DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)&"C",""))))))
 

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That's a truely hideous formula :)

Anyway, re the vba - when using the macro recorder, you don't record formulas, you record actions (select cell, change format etc). & the syntax of vba isn't the same as for excel formulas, so unfortunately you can't just pick up a spreadsheet formula & drop it into a macro.

If it works on the sheet, what are you trying to do?

Paddy
 
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My question was misleading. I want VB to write the formula into a cell. I've done it a million times before. I record a macro to write the formula into a cell. It was working but I added more arguments to the formula and when I tried to record it I got an error msg saying can't record. It appears that its too big for VB to read. Here's what it looks like in VB:

Range("A2").FormulaR1C1 = "IF(AND(C2="N",DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)<10),"02-"&"00"&DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)&"N",IF(AND(C2="N",DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)<100,DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)>=10),"02-"&"0"&DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)&"N",IF(AND(C2="N",DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)>99),"02-"&DCOUNT(BE:BE,1,BE1:BE5)&"N",IF(AND(C2="C",DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)<10),"02-"&"00"&DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)&"C",IF(AND(C2="C",DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)<100,DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)>=10),"02-"&"0"&DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)&"C",IF(AND(C2="C",DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)>99),"02-"&DCOUNT(BF:BF,1,BF1:BF5)&"C",""))))))"
 
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I should mention that this formula's funcition is to create a log number. Basically, on another sheet I enter data. I press a button that has a macro assigned to it. The macro, basically, writes links to another sheet. The above formula creates a log number based on the criteria. Its probably a half-*** way of doing it, but it works really well, except for the fact now that I added more arguments to the formula VBA can't seem to record it. Its just seems strange that it works in the cell but VBA can't record it.
 
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Nevermind...I figured it out...I forgot that VBA doesn't read text and formulas the same way it looks in Excel...boy, do I feel dumb.
 
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