I am currently using cell references to create a depedendent list with data validation. How to make cell references show up with some invalid characters?
For example, one of my cell references is Youngs_Market_Company. However, when pulling up the cell, I want it to be displayed as Young's Market Company.
I have some code that sets named ranges based on sheet names defined by the user.
Issue is, sheet names allow characters that range names do no (i.e. #, - etc).
Is there a relatively simple way to clean a sheet name to allow it to be used as a range name.
Code example below. I am using Replace, but unsure how many characters are invalid. Unfortunately I am referencing a third party workbook, so no control over sheet names.
Sub test()
Dim sh As Worksheet, shnm As String, wb As Workbook
Set wb = ThisWorkbook
For Each nm In wb.Names
nm.Delete
Next
For Each sh In wb.Sheets
If sh.Visible = xlSheetHidden Then GoTo continue:
When I insert a row into a worksheet (by selecting the row and then hitting ctrl+plus, or by going through the menu insert, row), a message pops up, as follows:
I created this worksheet from scratch and am not aware of any invalid reference.
I have a list drop down that is dependent on a first list. The first list has numbers, spaces, and "-" at the beginning I need to get rid of to make it a valid name to reference. The "Substitute" function can't be nested enough times to make this work for me since I have a fairly lengthy list for the independent column which has differing numbers at the beginning. The first two examples of the independent drop down (which would dictate the second dependent column and drop down) are:
00 - Preconstruction
01 - General Conditions
I would like to name these something like "Preconstruction" and "GeneralConditions" for valid naming convention.
Second thought:
If character removal isn't the most efficient or possible at all, is there a combination of reference functions that could make this work? Ultimately I want to use these 2 drop downs for reference functions on a second worksheet.
how I would go about referencing a cell on another worksheet to return only the last so many characters from the data in that cell. EG:
Sheet 1 cell A3 contains the number (stored as text) 12345678
Sheet 1 cell A4 contains the number (stored as text) 98765432
On Sheet 2 I want to put into cell B2 5678 (the last four characters from the data in Sheet 1 A3.) Also on Sheet 2 I want to put into cell B3 5432.
How can I delete characters unallowed in file names in cell text all in one go instead of below long macro. (i.e. can you minimize the below vba)
These characters that I wanna delete
"/", "", ":", "*", "?", "< ", ">", "|"
Code:
Range("A1").Select
Selection.Replace What:="""", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
[Code].....
My group is putting "marks" in Excel (2007) work papers & sometimes they may want to add additional marks to those previously added in a selected cell. What I have below actually works, but I just got my VBA book last week & there has to be a better way.
Specifically, I've saved the "target" off in the same worksheet (That can't be good.) and delete it when I'm done writing it back. Can I save the original characters virtually, or to the personal.xlsb.
Code:
Sub addMarkInCELL()
'
Dim charCount As Integer
Dim charStart As Integer
Dim rngTarget As String
charCount = ActiveCell.Characters.Count
[Code] ..........
I have name some random names as name1, name2.... name5
to add these cells, the formula is not working
=SUMPRODUCT(INDIRECT("name"&{"1","2","3","4","5"}))
Why this doesn't work?
I get the error message: Invalid Next control variable reference
And it highlights the i in 'Next i'
[Code] .....
I want to superscript the values from row 8. There is a column title in row 7 which I don't want to superscript. So I added the line.
[Code] ....
Which is giving error .
superscript.xlsm
Code:
Sub ProtectAll()
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
.Protect Password:="Password", AllowFiltering:=True
.EnableSelection = xlUnlockedCells
End With
End Sub
I am trying to get autofilter to be active when i run my protect macro.
Im getting an "Invalid or unqualified reference" error from this sub.
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
If ("C5") > ("b5") Then .Select ("C5")
Selection.Interior
.ColorIndex = 6
.Pattern = xlSolid
End If
End Sub
Never got this message before with the old excel so i dont know how to resolve. I get this. "Invalid Reference. File conversion can not contain formulas that reference cells beyond a worksheet size of 256 columns(columns IW or higher) or 65536 rows." Im doing a VLookup and when i input the table array it is always invalid when i know it is valid. The spreadsheet im referencing does not have any formulas beyond that range either. Another guy i work with is now getting the same error with the new excel.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm getting the compile error: Invalid or Unqualified reference and it's highlighting the .autofiltermode= part of the code. Now, keeping in mind that I had a LOT of help with this and I'm a complete newbie, is there anything obvious that I may be missing? I have to admit that I really don't know much about the autofilter stuff. That was taken from in here somewhere and I tweaked it and got help with it so once I moved things around it broke!
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim strPick As String
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim FstRow As Variant
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim allshts As Worksheets
On Error Goto ErrorTrap:
Worksheets("General").Range("A2:I65536").ClearContents
For Each ws In allshts
strPick = "Started"
.AutoFilterMode = False
ws.Range("A1:I1").AutoFilter
ws.Range("A1:I1").AutoFilter Field:=5, Criteria1:=strPick
.UsedRange.Offset(1, 0).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy _
Destination:=Sheets("General").Range("D65536").End(xlUp).Offset(1, -3)
Next
ErrorTrap:
MsgBox ("Error: " & Err.Source)
Resume Next
End Sub
I'm creating a chart that will show a running average of a set of values. First column has the values and the second is a running average. Here's my sample data:
55.0
65.5
8732.7
425.5
521.4
8832.5
528.6
826.0
423.6
My formula for the second column is as follows, =AVERAGE($G$1:G1), =AVERAGE($G$1:G2)... and so on.'
My problem is when I try to run the same formula on a different worksheet to put on the current worksheet, I get an error from Excel that the formula is invalid. Here's the formula I use, =AVERAGE('Team Stats'!$A$I1:AI1), =AVERAGE('Team Stats'!$A$I1:AI2), ...
Is this a bug with Excel? Is the format wrong? I've tried just using the function wizard and it tells me that the absolute reference is invalid.
I've got a worksheet here that i need to update every week. The problem i'm having is that i have a table of values that's drawing values in from another larger table. For example in B9 the cell is referenceing the I2 cell in another sheet. When i pull down the formula in B9 i want the cell below to reference J2 and so on. In other words, I only want the alpha characters to increment. Tried messing around with dollar signs but it doesn't seem to be doing what i want.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have written the following VBA Script but am getting an error message saying -> "Compile Error. Invalid Next control variable reference".
Code:
Sub Form1() 'Change Yes/No
Dim bottomT1 As Integer
bottomT1 = Sheets("Data Sheet").Range("T" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
Dim bottomP2 As Integer
bottomP2 = Sheets("Follow-Up").Range("P" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
Dim bottomO2 As Integer
bottomO2 = Sheets("Follow-Up").Range("O" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
[code].....
I have a very strange problem with a pivot table in Excel 2007. The source data is in a table in another workbook, stored on a shared network drive. We have 7 PCs in our office, and on 6 of them the pivot table refreshes fine. On the other, it always comes up with an error message that the reference is not valid, even if the source workbook is open. This particular PC is connected by a cable, so it can't be a wireless network problem.
All the PCs have got all updates installed, and as far as I can see the Trust Centre settings are the same (the problem PC can run macros from the same folder without problems). The really annoying thing is that the user of the problem PC is the only person who actually needs to refresh the data as part of her job.
I would like to apply different conditional formatting at different times with a click of a button. I setup a dummy and turned on the recorder and recorded this
Range("A7:N7").Select
Selection.FormatConditions.Delete
Selection.FormatConditions.Add Type:=xlExpression, Formula1:="=$C7=1"
Selection.FormatConditions(1).Interior.ColorIndex = 37
Range("A1").Select
End Sub
I tried changing to this
'/Conditional Format - OTHER EXPENSE B/L
Set rngConditional = wsData.UsedRange
With rngConditional...............
I am trying to add to a cell number and I am not entirely sure its possible. Here is my question:
My formula is thus:
='Sheet1'$A1 On sheet 2
And My next cell that I want it to show would be From Sheet 1 A4, then Sheet 1 A7, and so on and so on.
Can I do something on Sheet 2 to put =A1+3 and that would somehow give me A4?
I am trying to use the reference of Sheet 1 A1 and have next cell show me the value of Sheet 1 A4, then Sheet 1 A7 and so on and so on.
I have a file with data in one sheet (unfortunately I cannot share the file because of confidential data..), and two sheets with both 9-11 charts in them.
The charts are all filled simply with a dynamic range from the datasheet, so that Last Year and all months from this year with data in them are always in there.
The problem: When opening either of the graph sheets, the (familiar?) error pops up: "A formula in this worksheet contains one or more invalid references. Verify that your formulas contain a valid path, workbook, range name and cell reference."
One of the graphs has an error and only shows one point of data in it. But only until I press F9, and then the chart is repaired and functions perfectly like all the others!
I have tried lots of things, including checking all source ranges, deleting all graph names etc. and then repaired it so it would work again. The only thing that happened, is that the same error now pops up for another graph in the sheet. Still, when you press F9, the graph functions again!
I'd prefer to edit links with the source workbook open, however I receive this error when I do "A formula in this worksheet contains one or more invalid references." I am able to edit links with the source workbook closed but this takes far too much time to be satisfied with that as the solution. I have used vlookup formulas and the index-match method and they both take about the same amount of time to update. I've separated each worksheet and used the "name manager" add-in and have searched all links for any type of error. I feel like I'm missing something. Is there a way to fix this "invalid reference" error so that I can edit my links with the source workbook open?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWithin one workbook I have 15 sheets, 13 are for separate divisions within the company, 2 are used to present sums across the 13 sheets. All 13 sheets have identical columns and rows, with unique numbers in each cell. Right now I am manually selecting the cells to reference in my master sheet, =sheet name!cell+sheetname!cell+sheetname!cell - so and and so on. How can I reference the sheet name once, and then all of the cells to SUM? =sheetname!(c4+c14+c24+c34) etc?
This would let me be able to copy the formula from cell to cell, and only have to change the sheet name each time.
I want to create a formula that will refer to the cell I want by adding a number to the cell reference, not to the contents of the cell. For example, lets say that the cell C11 holds a value of 22. I want to add 4 to C11 to get my formula to reference cell C15, I don't want it to add 4 to the contents of C11 which is 22 and would give me a result of 26. I have a large spreadsheet and I can't just fill down the way I have it now and I don't want to have to retype the formula every time.
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I have a few dozen pictures created when a macro runs. They all have unique names. I'd like to add comments to cells, where the cell.value decides which picture to pull. All the examples I've found online show how to do this if you have pictures saved on your hard drive by referencing the file path "c://mydocs/...blahblah/"
Is there a way to reference the pictures I've created/named with my macro?
Here's the snippet of code that creates the pictures and names them:
Code:
For i = 2 To Application.CountA(Sheets("Allocation").Rows(1))
Sheets("Allocation").Activate
Set rInput = Sheets("Allocation").Range(Cells(1, i), Cells(10, i))
sPicName = "_" & Sheets("Allocation").Cells(1, i) & "_"
sSheet = Sheets("Allocation").Cells(3, i)
dDate = Sheets("Allocation").Cells(5, i)
[Code] ......
Here are some examples that are close to what I'm looking for.
VBA Popup Pictures - 1108 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast - YouTube
VBA Express : Excel - Add pictures that float like comments.
I need to add spaces to a string of characters so that it is readable, the database is huge so I cannot do it manually:
For example,
123456John Doe 3456Adam Sharp I need it to apperar as:
123456 John Doe 3456 Adam Sharp
but still remains at the same column. Is there a quick way to do this ?
i have a macro that copies info from cell in row A and uses that info to name the whole row, now if the name has a space between the words it uses _ (underscore) substition so i don't get an error (when row name is defined - you can't use any special characters or spaces) i was wondering if anyone can help me to add "-" besides the space
here is the macro
Sub Macro1()
Dim a As Long
For a = 1 To Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
Cells(a, 100) = Application.WorksheetFunction.Substitute(Cells(a, 1), " ", "_")
ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:=Cells(a, 100), RefersToR1C1:="=Sheet1!R" & a
Next a
End Sub
I need to be able to paste information into excel and then get excel to read the characters to 50 and then move the other info to another line and do the same command again until it has read all the data and put it in lines of 50.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am aware that special characters such as -,(,),[,] are not permitted in named ranges (for lists), but is there a workaround for this? I have a lot of dependent lists that need to access names that contain either a - or () or both. I could simply remove the -'s or ()'s using find/replace, but they are required, as they're part of the name. I am aware of this method http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal02.html#Illegal but I have a lot of dependent lists across a sheet, and a VLOOKUP isn't going to work. If there isn't a workaround, are there any allowed characters I could use to replace the -'s and ()'s?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a worksheet that will have tabs added as time goes by and a macro within the workbook currently selects all of the sheets and copies and pastes formulas within all of the sheets simultaneously. Right now, if a tab is added, the macro needs to be updated to select that specific tab name as well.
I would like to simply have the macro select all of the sheets starting with "IL" until the sheet before "reference", or all sheets except the first 3 and the last 2 if that is easier. Any ideas? And thank you for your help, you people really amaze me sometimes!