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Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

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    Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    Hi Guys

    I do need your help regarding one of my projects in this i had to change the color of cell to yellow if the cell content is "N/A"

    i had write few lines but don't know how to move in a range cell by cell
    plz help me with this

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    in this cell should be defined as which type?

    and if u modify this code i'd be really gr8ful
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    Re: Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    Hi Ravinder
    try something like
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    But better still why not use conditional formating??
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    Re: Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    Why use VBa, that's what conditional Formatting does

    http://www.excel-it.com/excel_condit...formatting.htm
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    Re: Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    i have to apply this code on multiple sheets of multiple workbooks that's y couldn't use cond. formatting i'm still a bit confuse what should be the data type for cell is it string or range

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    Re: Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    Ravinder
    cell as range

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    Re: Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    thanks a lot the same i did jst want to confirm
    thanks a million

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    Ravinder S

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    Re: Change the Back Ground Color on basis of content of cell in a range

    Quote Originally Posted by ravinder_tigh View Post
    thanks a lot the same i did jst want to confirm
    thanks a million

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    Ravinder S
    no problem, its allway good to confirm

    how about running code to conditional format it will be quicker that a loop

    some thing like
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