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    Assign Macro to active cell

    Hello,

    I am trying to figure out how to assign a macro to the active cell.

    I want to trigger a macro (say MyMacro) when I click on the active / selected cell (not "OnSelect" but "OnClick").

    The "trigger" needs to be assigned to the cell programmatically through a macro, so I am visualizing something like:


    Sub CellTriggering
    'this macro performs various operations within the active cell.

    'the last procedure is the assigning of a macro to the active cell:

    'Run MyMacro when click on active cell


    End Sub

    Is this possible?

    Thanks

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    Re: Assign Macro to active cell

    You could use the double click event
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    Re: Assign Macro to active cell

    Hi plans,

    On Click isn't one of the normal events so I believe you need to put that event in a Class Module. See information for older versions of Excel at:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...-event-handler

    I use double click events to trigger my code on a cell. I don't know how to do it on a simple click in that cell.
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    Re: Assign Macro to active cell

    I understand and I could use the "double click event".
    The issue I have is that the event has to be assigned to a cell programmatically.

    For example, I am running the "Sub CellTriggering" while the active cell is X100 and at the end of the macro, I need to assign the event programmatically to cell X100.

    Next time I will be running the macro while cell Y500 is active, at that point, I need to assign the event programmatically to cell Y500.

    Could you please advise?
    Thanks

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    Re: Assign Macro to active cell

    Hey plans,

    If there were an event for "Click in Cell" then I'd use a Global Variable of Last cell click in and update it with each click of my mouse. Then if I clicked in a cell a second time, this would show that the last click was the same as this click and run my macro. Something like:

    If not intersect(Target, LastClickCell) is nothing Then

    Good luck!!

    But there is no event of "click" so you might need to do what I suggested above and figure out how to do a Class Module Event.

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    Re: Assign Macro to active cell

    I keep learning things in Excel I never knew. The event of Selection_Change does capture what cell is clicked in. I think you can use this for a "Click Event" . Try this code behind sheet 1.
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    Clicking around Sheet1 will show which cell was clicked on.
    I guess I was confused with this and the event behind the WorkBook called:
    Workbook_SheetChange()

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