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    Cell contents updating colour of other cells

    Hi there

    I know that I can achieve what I'm trying to do pretty easily in later versions of Excel using conditional formatting, but i'm apparently making life hard for myself and trying to do this in Excel 2000.

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    How I want the above set up is as follows:
    When I enter the letter a, e, t o or I into a cell between H5 and H70, the cells in that row change colour accordingly. Below is the code i'm using:

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    Now I know that I could technically just copy and paste this 70 times and use the same code for each of the 70 rows I want it to apply to, but surely there's a quicker way?

    Possibly an incredibly novice question but hey, I'm nothing if not a novice :P

    Hope you can help

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    Last edited by TokyoClownAttack; 10-27-2013 at 08:17 AM. Reason: Problem is solved

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    Re: Cell contents updating colour of other cells

    Hello TokyoClownAttack,

    Would the attached Sample Workbook be what you are after?

    Hope it works in Excel 2000.

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    Re: Cell contents updating colour of other cells

    Hi and welcome to the forum

    Sorry to "pound" on you with your 1st post, but Your post does not comply with Rule 3 of our Forum RULES. Use code tags around code.

    Posting code between [CODE]Please [url=https://www.excelforum.com/login.php]Login or Register [/url] to view this content.[/CODE] tags makes your code much easier to read and copy for testing, it also maintains VBA formatting.

    Highlight your code and click the # icon at the top of your post window. More information about these and other tags can be found here

    I will add then for you this time, please remember to use them in future

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    Please do not upload a picture of your file...rather, upload a sample of your workbook, showing what data you are working with, a few samples of your expected outcome is (manually entered is ok) and how you arrived at that. (exclude sensitive info). Pictures are pretty much impossible to edit, and no-one wants to re-type your data for you Also, not all members can upload picture files (Company firewalls and stuff)
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    Re: Cell contents updating colour of other cells

    Hi again

    Thanks for the help Winon, that almost completely solved the problem.

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    The Target.EntireRow bit solved the problem I was initially having. The only thing I had to change is the Range("D5:J5") bit, as whenever I entered a value in the H column, it would always change the colour of the D row as well, regardless of what was already in there. I just changed Range("D5:J5") to Target and that fixed it.

    Thanks a lot for the help and sorry for the rule breaking

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    Re: Cell contents updating colour of other cells

    Hi TokyoClownAttack,

    Glad I could be of some assistance, and I am happy to see that you managed to solve your issue.

    You are a fast learner, wrapping of Code, and Marking your Thread as Solved as well. That's good.

    Thank you also for adding to my Reputation.

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