How do I tell (through VBA) if users region is going to use a dot or comma for money?

[johncassell]

Hi, I have a macro that has always worked perfectly. It copies data from a CSV file (lets say a particular column has the value 40.00 in it) and my excel is happy with it and can do calculations.

I have a colleague in the Netherlands who I've just shared this with and when it imports the data, it just cannot understand what 40.00 is. If I manually change this to 40,00 (European comma format) then it's happy days.

My question is - how do I ask VBA.. "If my user is English then keep the dot. If he is Dutch then replace the dot with a comma"

I can do the replace part but I don't know how to check if it actually needs replacing? thanks, John

[TMS]

See if this helps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...ectedfrom=MSDN

There's an example right at the bottom that, I think, gives you what you want.

[TMS]

Thinking about it, you could probably test if the (supposedly numeric) cell is seen a Text. So 40.00 would be seen as text in the Netherlands and numeric in the UK.

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[johncassell]

Excellent, I'll try that when I'm back in the office tomorrow. Looks like it would do the trick. Thank you

[TMS]

You're welcome.



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[johncassell]

yes that definitely, worked thank you!

[TMS]

You're welcome. Thanks for the rep.