VBA to format cells...

[patrickmuldoon99]

Hey all

Does anyone know the syntax / if its possible to explicitly state what the format of the data in a cell should take when I am assigning a value to it?

An example should make it clearer

Cells(5,3) = 120

Now if the cell C5 is formatted as currency, it would be displayed as £120.00. Similarly, if it was formatted as a percentage it would display 12000%. What I want to do is state how I want it formatted as I am writing to the cell. So, what i'm after is something like this:

Cells(5,3) = Currency(120)

I need to either display values as plain text, currency (to 2 d.p) or as a percentage.


Can anyone help?!?!


Thanks, Patrick

 

[Macropheliac]

Try this:
For Currency:

Cells(5,3).NumberFormat = "$#,##0.00"

For Text:

Cells(5,3)..NumberFormat = "@"

For Percentage:

Cells(5,3)..NumberFormat = "0.00%"

 

[HalfAce]

I need to either display values as plain text, currency (to 2 d.p) or as a percentage.

Well, to simply assign a value & format to those specific formats:
Currency:
With Range("C5")
.Value = 120
.NumberFormat = "$#,##0.00"
End With

Percentage:
With Range("C5")
.Value = 120
.NumberFormat = "0.00%"
End With

Text:
With Range("C5")
.Value = 120
.NumberFormat = "@"
End With


Now, if you want it to be formatted as one or the other of these, depending on what the value
is, what would be your criteria for each of the formats?

 

[patrickmuldoon99]

Cheers both of you, excellent stuff.

My criteria depends on the 'mode' that the user is viewing the sheet in, but that's not really my problem. I just needed to know the VBA to vary output as opposed to selecting the range and applying the formatting all at once.

Which is better, in your opinion, stating the format as they are plugged in, or plugging them in, then selecting the whole range and changing the format?

 

[Macropheliac]

In my opinion, it is a lot easier to change the format as the values are entered.