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9.2

Conditional Formatting when 'this' cell's ref appears in a list

Asked by hawkeye_zzz in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

Tags: Conditional formatting reference

The code below (from Question ID:24709907) drops dependents from a highlighted list into a new sheet. It drops the Original cell ref in Column A and the Dependent cell ref in Column B (cell refs include sheet name).

The question now is, can additional lines be added, or a follow on macro, which conditionally formats the highlighted cells (on which the original macro was just run) as follows:
1) if the cell in question does not appear in column A of the new sheet at all, no formatting
2) if the cell in question appears in column A of the new sheet once (i.e. it has one dependent exactly), cell pattern/background = acqua/light blue
3) if the cell in question appears in column A of the new sheet more than once (i.e. it has more than one dependent), cell pattern/background = Red

One additional complication: I'm only interested in cell dependents on other sheets, so this could be dealt with by:
a) changing the original macro so it doesn't include 'own-sheet' dependents
b) deleting own sheet dependents from the list after the macro has run
c) defining only 'different-sheet' dependents on the conditional formatting
d) anything else clever
...(b) would be best so it can be isolated and deleted from the macro if I need them back in, so if doing it this way, pls comment in the code 
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Sub ListDependents()
   Dim wks As Worksheet
   Dim rngFormulas As Range, rngCell As Range
   Dim objDict As Object
   Dim varDeps As Variant, varItem As Variant
   Dim lngRow As Long, x As Long, y As Long
   Dim wksOut As Worksheet
   Application.ScreenUpdating = False
   Set rngFormulas = Selection
   ' this Dictionary will hold the addresses
   Set objDict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
   
   If Not rngFormulas Is Nothing Then
      For Each rngCell In rngFormulas
         ListCellDependents rngCell, objDict
      Next rngCell
      Set rngFormulas = Nothing
   End If
   Set wksOut = Worksheets.Add
   wksOut.Range("A1:B1").Value = Array("Original Cell", "Dependents")
   lngRow = 2
   For Each varItem In objDict.Keys
      varDeps = Split(objDict.Item(varItem), "|")
      For y = LBound(varDeps) To UBound(varDeps)
         wksOut.Cells(lngRow, "A").Value = varItem
         wksOut.Cells(lngRow, "B").Value = varDeps(y)
         lngRow = lngRow + 1
      Next y
   Next varItem
   Application.ScreenUpdating = True
   
End Sub
Sub ListCellDependents(rngCheck As Range, dict As Object)
   Dim lngSheetCounter As Long, lngRefCounter As Long
   Dim strKey As String, strAddy As String
   strKey = "'" & rngCheck.Parent.Name & "'!" & rngCheck.address(0, 0)
   lngSheetCounter = 1
   On Error Resume Next
   With rngCheck
      .ShowDependents False
      Do
         lngRefCounter = 1
         Do
            .NavigateArrow False, lngSheetCounter, lngRefCounter
            strAddy = "'" & Selection.Parent.Name & "'!" & Selection.address(0, 0)
            If Err.Number = 0 Then
               If strAddy = strKey Then
                  rngCheck.ShowDependents True
                  Exit Sub
               Else
                  If dict.Exists(strKey) Then
                     dict(strKey) = dict(strKey) & "|" & strAddy
                  Else
                     dict(strKey) = strAddy
                  End If
               End If
               lngRefCounter = lngRefCounter + 1
            Else
               Err.Clear
               Exit Do
            End If
         Loop
         lngSheetCounter = lngSheetCounter + 1
      Loop
   End With
End Sub
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