Copy cell format to cell on another worksht and update automatical

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Hi Gord,

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to get the Stop Recording Toolbar to
pop up.

I am certain that it used to pop up but for some reason it is no longer
doing this. I have been forced to stop the recording by going into
Tools/Macro/Stop Recordiong.

Do you know how I go about enabling that Stop Recording popup?

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Gord,
I managed to get the 'Stop Recording' popup back up, I have recorded a macro
with relative references enabled BUT I get a VB error when I run it ..

"Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error."

If I record a macro with relative references turned off VB doesn't give me
the error.

Here are the details on the macro which I recorded:


Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 09/05/2005 by UBV2000
'

'
ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.Copy
ActiveCell.Offset(9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlFormats, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:= _
False, Transpose:=False
ActiveCell.Offset(-8, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub


any suggestions on how I could avoid this error would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kevin







"kevinm" wrote:

Hi Gord,

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to get the Stop Recording Toolbar to
pop up.

I am certain that it used to pop up but for some reason it is no longer
doing this. I have been forced to stop the recording by going into
Tools/Macro/Stop Recordiong.

Do you know how I go about enabling that Stop Recording popup?

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

It could be that the active cell is not in row 10 or below, but in row 1-9.
For example, if you are in cell B3, an offset of -9 rows is not possible.

On Mon, 9 May 2005 10:49:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Gord,
I managed to get the 'Stop Recording' popup back up, I have recorded a macro
with relative references enabled BUT I get a VB error when I run it ..

"Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error."

If I record a macro with relative references turned off VB doesn't give me
the error.

Here are the details on the macro which I recorded:


Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 09/05/2005 by UBV2000
'

'
ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.Copy
ActiveCell.Offset(9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlFormats, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:=
_
False, Transpose:=False
ActiveCell.Offset(-8, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub


any suggestions on how I could avoid this error would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kevin







"kevinm" wrote:

Hi Gord,

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to get the Stop Recording Toolbar to
pop up.

I am certain that it used to pop up but for some reason it is no longer
doing this. I have been forced to stop the recording by going into
Tools/Macro/Stop Recordiong.

Do you know how I go about enabling that Stop Recording popup?

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording
Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm

wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only
manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so
when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the
same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro
with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros
again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the
2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the
first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the
contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so
good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the
first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd
worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell
on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a
computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to
similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there
are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten
different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able
to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically
update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can
quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the
chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B),
but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically
update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Kevin

Errors out on this line most likely..........

ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select

If the activecell is in above row 10 this will throw an error because you are
trying to select from 9 rows above the activecell.

The -9 moves up 9 rows, the 0 means column remains unchanged.

What your macro is doing is selecting a cell 9 rows above the active cell then
copying the format of that cell and pasting into the active cell then
selecting a cell 8 rows above.

What are your exact needs? Perhaps a simpler macro can be written.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 9 May 2005 10:49:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Gord,
I managed to get the 'Stop Recording' popup back up, I have recorded a macro
with relative references enabled BUT I get a VB error when I run it ..

"Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error."

If I record a macro with relative references turned off VB doesn't give me
the error.

Here are the details on the macro which I recorded:


Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 09/05/2005 by UBV2000
'

'
ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.Copy
ActiveCell.Offset(9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlFormats, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:= _
False, Transpose:=False
ActiveCell.Offset(-8, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub


any suggestions on how I could avoid this error would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kevin







"kevinm" wrote:

Hi Gord,

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to get the Stop Recording Toolbar to
pop up.

I am certain that it used to pop up but for some reason it is no longer
doing this. I have been forced to stop the recording by going into
Tools/Macro/Stop Recordiong.

Do you know how I go about enabling that Stop Recording popup?

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Gord/Myrna,

thanks for your help, I went back and recreated the macro, I don't know what
I did different but it is working now.

All I need to figure out now is how to repeat the macro operation a number
of times.

Consider:

My master worksheet has about 600 cells, all in one column. Of these a
number of them are grouped into 20 consecutive cells. Instead of executing
the macro twenty times to copy the 20 cells to worksheet 2, is there a way of
looping the macro a user specified number of times?

Let me know if I should start a new thread for this,

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

Errors out on this line most likely..........

ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select

If the activecell is in above row 10 this will throw an error because you are
trying to select from 9 rows above the activecell.

The -9 moves up 9 rows, the 0 means column remains unchanged.

What your macro is doing is selecting a cell 9 rows above the active cell then
copying the format of that cell and pasting into the active cell then
selecting a cell 8 rows above.

What are your exact needs? Perhaps a simpler macro can be written.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 9 May 2005 10:49:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Gord,
I managed to get the 'Stop Recording' popup back up, I have recorded a macro
with relative references enabled BUT I get a VB error when I run it ..

"Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error."

If I record a macro with relative references turned off VB doesn't give me
the error.

Here are the details on the macro which I recorded:


Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 09/05/2005 by UBV2000
'

'
ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.Copy
ActiveCell.Offset(9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlFormats, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:= _
False, Transpose:=False
ActiveCell.Offset(-8, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub


any suggestions on how I could avoid this error would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kevin







"kevinm" wrote:

Hi Gord,

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to get the Stop Recording Toolbar to
pop up.

I am certain that it used to pop up but for some reason it is no longer
doing this. I have been forced to stop the recording by going into
Tools/Macro/Stop Recordiong.

Do you know how I go about enabling that Stop Recording popup?

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin

Hi experts,
thanks to your help I am having 'some' success with macros but I am finding
their behaviour somewhat unpredictable.


Rather then debug this one problem at a time and have to keep pestering you
for help each time I thought I should give you the full picture of what I am
trying to accomplish here. Maybe what I am trying to do is beyond the
capabilities of Excel, if so I would like to know so that I don't need to
keep hassling you for help with something which at the end of the day Excel
might not be able to handle.



Ultimately I want my spreadsheet to consist of two worksheets, sheet1 would
contain column D which corresponds to a list of pins for a computer chip I am
working on.

Sheet2 would be an array of rows and columns representing the physical view
of the computer chip which I am working on. This would essentially be a
square array of pins. Each of these pins would be numbered, i.e. A1, A2,etc,
much like an array of rows and columns appears on a spreadsheet.



Column D on sheet1 would contain a list of values, pointing to a cell on
sheet2 ..

Example1:

D2, value = C17
D3, value = D17
D4, value = C20

etc, etc

(in total there would be 448 rows of D to be parsed (D2449))

Each of these D cells would be colored by the user according to their
electrical function.


What I want to do is read the value of each D cell and use it's contents
(e.g. 'C17') as a pointer to the corresponding cell on sheet2, (i.e. C17,
D17, etc) then I want to do a copy/paste special to copy the format info
(i.e. color) to the cells on sheet2. I want to do this for all D cells within
the range D2449.

The pin array would be 26x32, this would be represented on sheet2 as 26 rows
by 32 columns.

I want this to all be automated, which I assume will require some huge macro
to be created.

could you please advise if Excel would be capable of doing this?

thanks,

Kevin



"kevinm" wrote:

Gord/Myrna,

thanks for your help, I went back and recreated the macro, I don't know what
I did different but it is working now.

All I need to figure out now is how to repeat the macro operation a number
of times.

Consider:

My master worksheet has about 600 cells, all in one column. Of these a
number of them are grouped into 20 consecutive cells. Instead of executing
the macro twenty times to copy the 20 cells to worksheet 2, is there a way of
looping the macro a user specified number of times?

Let me know if I should start a new thread for this,

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

Errors out on this line most likely..........

ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select

If the activecell is in above row 10 this will throw an error because you are
trying to select from 9 rows above the activecell.

The -9 moves up 9 rows, the 0 means column remains unchanged.

What your macro is doing is selecting a cell 9 rows above the active cell then
copying the format of that cell and pasting into the active cell then
selecting a cell 8 rows above.

What are your exact needs? Perhaps a simpler macro can be written.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Mon, 9 May 2005 10:49:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Gord,
I managed to get the 'Stop Recording' popup back up, I have recorded a macro
with relative references enabled BUT I get a VB error when I run it ..

"Run-time error '1004':
Application-defined or object-defined error."

If I record a macro with relative references turned off VB doesn't give me
the error.

Here are the details on the macro which I recorded:


Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 09/05/2005 by UBV2000
'

'
ActiveCell.Offset(-9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.Copy
ActiveCell.Offset(9, 0).Range("A1").Select
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlFormats, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:= _
False, Transpose:=False
ActiveCell.Offset(-8, 0).Range("A1").Select
End Sub


any suggestions on how I could avoid this error would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kevin







"kevinm" wrote:

Hi Gord,

unfortunately I dont seem to be able to get the Stop Recording Toolbar to
pop up.

I am certain that it used to pop up but for some reason it is no longer
doing this. I have been forced to stop the recording by going into
Tools/Macro/Stop Recordiong.

Do you know how I go about enabling that Stop Recording popup?

thanks,

Kevin


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Kevin

When you go to ToolsMacroRecord New Macro and OK, the Stop Recording Toolbar
should pop up.

On this Toolbar is a "relative reference" toggle button.

Record your macro with relative references turned on.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 8 May 2005 09:00:01 -0700, kevinm
wrote:

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. however I have tried creating a macro but
couldn't get it to do what I want. I had problems in that I could only manage
to get Excel to create a macro that used absolute cell refereences, so when I
went to a completely different cell and ran the macro it copied from the same
source cell every time. Somehow I need to get Excel to build a macro with
relative cell references, then it might work. I wil read up on macros again
and try to figure it out,

Kevin

"paul" wrote:

i think you will need a simple macro to do this ie paste
special-formats,paste special value
--
hope this helps
Paul


"kevinm" wrote:

I have two worksheets, I have entered the formula for a cell on the 2nd
worksheet so that the cell contents are copied from a cell on the first
worksheet.

e.g. =(Sheet1!B1)

When I update the contents of the cell on the first worksheet the contents
of the cell on the 2nd sheet are updated automatically .. so far so good ..

Now, what I really want to do is have the format of the cell on the first
sheet (and NOT it's contents) copied to the cell on the 2nd worksheet. When I
change the format of the cell on the 1st worksheet I want the cell on the 2nd
sheet to update automatically.

The reason for needing this behaviour is as follows:

Sheet 1 is used to represent a collection of signal pins of a computer chip
I am working on. These signals can be grouped together according to similar
function and I color format these according their function. (there are about
600 pins which are grouped by function and represented by about ten different
colors).

Sheet2 is a physical view of the computer chip. I want it to be able to
reassign signals on the first sheet and have Excel automatically update the
color format of the cells on the second sheet. This way I can quickly see how
changing the pin assignment is reflected in the physical view of the chip.

e.g.

Sheet 1, A1 is a signal named 'A', it is formatted BLUE
Sheet 2, AA10 shows the format of cell A1 on sheet1, i.e. BLUE

Suppose I decide to change A1 on sheet1 to a different signal (B), but this
signal is of type RED. What I want to see is Excel automatically update AA10
on sheet2 so that its format is RED.

Is it possible to do this in Excel?

thanks,

Kevin