Color shading vba

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carman - Jun 27, 2010 at 09:16 PM
rizvisa1 Posts 4478 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 - Jun 29, 2010 at 03:16 AM
Hello,
Please does anyone know if there is a VBA code that can help me to perform this:
If a phase starts with M then look up column 4 and 5 in document 2 and fill the value in the tab with yellow shading.
If a phase starts wirth S then look up column 3 4 5 in document 2 and fill the value in the tab with yellow shading.
Thanks!
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rizvisa1 Posts 4478 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 766
Jun 28, 2010 at 05:05 AM
If all you care is that if a phrase starts with M or S, then you can use VLOOKUP and do a conditional formatting to color the cell



Some thing like this

=IF(LEFT(a1,1)="S", VLOOKUP(.....), IF(LEFT(A1,1)="S"), VLOOKUP(...), ""))

Could you please upload a sample EXCEL file WITH sample data, macro, formula , conditional formatting etc on some shared site like https://authentification.site , http://docs.google.com, http://wikisend.com/ , http://www.editgrid.com etc and post back here the link to allow better understanding of how it is now and how you foresee. Based on the sample book, could you re-explain your problem too
thanks for your reply.
But what if i am trying to input data from other document. I tried using "=IF(LEFT(a1,1)="S", VLOOKUP(.....), IF(LEFT(A1,1)="S"), VLOOKUP(...), "")) " by conditional formatting but i showed a message : "you may not use conditional formatting from other worksheet or other workbook".
Since i am looking up data from other document, how could this be solved??Thanks again.
rizvisa1 Posts 4478 Registration date Thursday January 28, 2010 Status Contributor Last seen May 5, 2022 766
Jun 29, 2010 at 03:16 AM
Could you please upload a sample EXCEL file WITH sample data, macro, formula , conditional formatting etc on some shared site like https://authentification.site , http://docs.google.com, http://wikisend.com/ , http://www.editgrid.com etc and post back here the link to allow better understanding of how it is now and how you foresee. Based on the sample book, could you re-explain your problem too