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How not to compete with self

Asked by DWG123 in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Microsoft Development, VB Objects

Tags: MS Excel, VBA, functions

I am writing a user function to raise my bid price for an auction.  I want to make sure 1) I have the highest bid price, 2) I don't ever pay more than needed to have the best bid price and 3) that I don't compete with myself.  Number 3 is giving me trouble.

Mugadu sent some code back that worked (thanks), but with some buttons and sub routines in it.  I would like to make this work as a function if possible.  Mainly because I am not sure how to reference/call the sub and I want the same function to work lots of times in a spreadsheet and don't want to get public/private mixed up. (I'm new to this...)

What am I missing to keep from competing with myself?  When MyBid becomes the CurBid, I don't want to "raise" against myself.

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Option Explicit
 
Function MyBid(CurBid As Single, ReservePrice As Single, FairValue As Single, ProfitMargin As Single)
 
 Dim MaxBid As Single
 Dim Step   As Single
 
 MaxBid = FairValue - ProfitMargin
 Step = 1
 
 If CurBid > MyBid Then
  MyBid = CurBid + Step
  If MyBid >= MaxBid Then
   MyBid = MaxBid
  End If
 End If
 
End Function
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Best Bid with VBA function macro
 
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