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Macro to populate adjacent cell but if already populated leave cell alone if false

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    Macro to populate adjacent cell but if already populated leave cell alone if false

    I am VERY inexperienced with VB. That being said, I have a spreadsheet that I've coded to put a value in one cell based on a value in another cell:

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    The problem is, besides not knowing how to code, when I place other data in column T, the code overwrites it when I run the macro.

    To clarify - I have five columns in a spreadsheet and, based on what goes in the first column (the first column will either be blank or contain "N/A"), I want the second, third, fourth and fifth columns to auto-populate (if there's nothing, it remains blank, if it's "N/A", then "N/A" ). The reason these columns would otherwise remain blank is that I need to populate them with dates.

    My macro works well initially, but if I place dates in the second, third, fourth or fifth columns, the next time I run the macro this data gets overwritten.

    I'm obviously in way over my head.

    Hope this is clear enough.

    ANY help at all would be appreciated.

    Thanks.

    Cindy
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    Re: Macro - leave cell alone if false...I think...help!

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    Re: Macro to populate adjacent cell but if already populated leave cell alone if fals

    OK - I thought I was getting somewhere, but alas, another roadblock. I have modified the code as follows:

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    However, once I've run the code once, it won't work again, for example: I'll populate data in cell T8 through to, say, T15 and then launch the macro to autofill the adjacent cells in column U. It works perfectly up to this point. But if I go back later on and populate data in T15 to T25. When I launch the macro again, it no longer works - at all.

    Any suggestions?

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    Re: Macro to populate adjacent cell but if already populated leave cell alone if fals

    Hi, Try this:-
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