Indirect Sheet References possible? AND Text formatting...

[KrisLB]

Is there anyway to use indirect sheet references directly in excel rather than creating a macro?

IE: =sheets(1)!A5
And then anytime the sheets are reordered the value of the cell would change.

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Does anyone know - if possible - make a reference to another cell also identify and model text formatting to that cell?

IE: A5 = "Normal" (1) < (1) in Superscript>
A6 = A5 (would like to maintain the superscripting of "(1)")

-kris

 

[Greg Truby]

Q#1: see this post. (Skip the part on SheetPos and just focus on the part regarding defining wsNames editing the 2nd arg in the call to INDEX() to be just your constant (1 in your example).

Q#2: Only way I can think of without doing a lot of complicated VBA is to copy the cell and hold down your shift key and click on the Edit menu and pick Paste Picture Link from the Shift-Edit menu.

 

[KrisLB]

Re: Indirect Sheet References possible? AND Text formattin

Greg, thanks; absolute genius. Works perfectly (re: #1).

(re: #2) I know i can do a normal copy and paste, and that copies cell and text formatting (format painter just copies cell formatting - not text formatting [my assumption is that text formatting is just inserted character codes). I was just wondering if there was a function that would possibly copy text formatting as well as the value.

Appreciate all the help!

-kris

 

[Greg Truby]

Ok, now I understand what you are after for your question #2. AFAIK, there isn't a built-in tool that will do this for you. However, the following little bit of code seems to work ok for me in testing:

<font face=Courier New><SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN> CopyLetterFormats()
<SPAN style="color:#007F00">' Copies character-level formatting from active cell</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#007F00">' to any other selected cells.  So if selecting two</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#007F00">' non-contiguous cells/areas, select the targets first</SPAN>
<SPAN style="color:#007F00">' and the source last.      Greg T., Jan 2005</SPAN>

    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> TypeName(Selection) <> "Range" <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Exit</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN>
    
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Dim</SPAN> rngSelected <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> Range, rngBaseCell <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> Range, rngCell <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> Range
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Dim</SPAN> intLtr <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Integer</SPAN>
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Dim</SPAN> fontBase <SPAN style="color:#00007F">As</SPAN> Font
    
    
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Set</SPAN> rngBaseCell = ActiveCell
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Set</SPAN> rngSelected = Selection
    
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> vbNo = MsgBox("Copy letter formats from " & _
                      rngBaseCell.Address(False, False) & _
                      " to the rest of the selected cells?", _
                      vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Text Format Copy") <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Exit</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN>
    
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">For</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Each</SPAN> rngCell <SPAN style="color:#00007F">In</SPAN> rngSelected
        <SPAN style="color:#00007F">If</SPAN> rngCell.Address = rngBaseCell.Address <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Then</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">GoTo</SPAN> EndOfLoop
        <SPAN style="color:#00007F">For</SPAN> intLtr = 1 <SPAN style="color:#00007F">To</SPAN> WorksheetFunction.Min(Len(rngCell.Text), Len(rngBaseCell.Text))
            <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Set</SPAN> fontBase = rngBaseCell.Characters(Start:=intLtr, Length:=1).Font
            <SPAN style="color:#00007F">With</SPAN> rngCell.Characters(Start:=intLtr, Length:=1).Font
                .Name = fontBase.Name
                .FontStyle = fontBase.FontStyle
                .Size = fontBase.Size
                .Strikethrough = fontBase.Strikethrough
                .Superscript = fontBase.Superscript
                .Subscript = fontBase.<SPAN style="color:#00007F">Sub</SPAN>script
                .OutlineFont = fontBase.OutlineFont
                .Shadow = fontBase.Shadow
                .Underline = fontBase.Underline
                .ColorIndex = fontBase.ColorIndex
            <SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> <SPAN style="color:#00007F">With</SPAN>
        <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Next</SPAN> intLtr
EndOfLoop:
    <SPAN style="color:#00007F">Next</SPAN> rngCell

    rngBaseCell.Select

<SPAN style="color:#00007F">End</SPAN> Sub</FONT>

HTH