XL97: How to Programmatically Change the Format of a User Input After Data Entry (305565)

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1. Start Microsoft Excel.
2. Click Tools, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor (or press ALT+F11).
3. In the Project Explorer window, you should see entries similar to the following:

         VBAProject (Book1)
            Microsoft Excel Objects
               Sheet1 (Sheet1)
               Sheet2 (Sheet2)
               Sheet3 (Sheet3)
   						

   Double-click the entry for the worksheet to which you want to assign a Worksheet_Change macro (Sheet1, for example).
4. In the Code window, type the following code:

   Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
   
      Dim r As Range
   
      'Set the range for the formatting changes to A1:A5.
      Set r = Intersect(Range("A1:A5"), Target)
   
      'If the change in the worksheet is not in the tested range, exit the macro.
      If r Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
   
      'Change to formatting of the cell that changed.
      r.Font.Bold = True
   
         
   
   End Sub
   					

5. On the File menu, click Close and Return to Microsoft Excel.
6. Type text in any cell in A1:A5, and then press ENTER.
   
   NOTE: The text in the cell is bold.

If there are multiple discontiguous ranges to be formatted, you must test against these separately.

If you want to make the formatting for each cell different, replace the sample code in the previous steps with this sample code:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
   Dim r As Range

   'Set the range for the formatting changes to A1:A5
   Set r = Intersect(Range("A1:A5"), Target)

   'If the change in the worksheet is not in the tested range, exit the macro
   If r Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
   
   Select Case Target.Address
   Case "$A$1"
        Target.Font.Bold = True
   Case "$A$2"
       Target.Font.Italic = True
   Case Else
        Target.Font.Size = 32
   End Select

End Sub