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First time posting for me and hoping to get some help with for selective hardcod

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Question

First time posting for me and hoping to get some help with  for selective hardcoding.

I currently have a column into which a formula is set which returns either blank or a variety of text strings (the status of our company's orders).

I need to make a macro that looks into all the cells of that column and copy/pastes as value into that same cell only if the formula in that cell returnss text string "Received". It should not affect the other cells where the formula is returning either blank or a differeent text string.

Would really appreciatee your help. Please let me know if you need more info.

Thanks in advance!!!,

Explanation / Answer

Assuming you're going to run the macro manually, and that the column is column J, put this in a regular code module:

Public Sub LockIn()

Const csLockText As String = "Received"

Dim rCell As Range

Dim rLookIn As Range

  

With Worksheets("Sheet1")

On Error Resume Next

Set rLookIn = Intersect(.Range("J:J"), .UsedRange)

On Error GoTo 0

If Not rLookIn Is Nothing Then

For Each rCell In rLookIn

With rCell

If .Text = csLockText Then .Value = csLockText

End With

Next rCell

End If

End With

End Sub

Adjust "Sheet1" and the "J"s as needed.

If, on the other hand, you want to lock the value in as soon as it's calculated, put this in the worksheet code module:

Private Sub Worksheet_Calculate()

Const csLockText As String = "Received"

Dim rCell As Range

Dim rLookIn As Range

  

On Error GoTo Err_Handler

Application.EnableEvents = False

With Me

Set rLookIn = Intersect(.Range("J:J"), .UsedRange)

If Not rLookIn Is Nothing Then

For Each rCell In rLookIn

With rCell

If .Text = csLockText Then .Value = csLockText

End With

Next rCell

End If

End With

Exit_Sub:

Application.EnableEvents = True

Exit Sub

Err_Handler:

Resume Exit_Sub

End Sub