Excel 2003: Simple VBA hide row on cell value

Two things:
1. The Cells function requires two numbers as inputs, so I think you'd want Cells(4,71) rather than using the letter D.
2. You're unhiding row 75 if the text is as indicated. Did you intend to hide it instead? If so, swap False and True.

Also the worksheet change event handler is triggered when anything changes so could be used to trigger your activity whenever a change occurs to the worksheet.

It can be simpplified and tidied up depending on if the functionality applies to more than one row.

Chris

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Range("D" & 71) = "*Requires 2 signatures*" Then
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = False
    Else
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = True
    End If

End Sub

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I have tried both suggestions and the row 75 remains visible .  As additional information, the D71 cell is the result of a formula:=IF(data!C57="Yes","*Requires 2 signatures*"," ").  

Sub HideandUnhide()
If Cells(4, 71) = "*Requires 2 signatures*" Then
    Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = True
Else
    Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = False
End If
End Sub

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Range("D" & 71) = "*Requires 2 signatures*" Then
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = False
    Else
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = True
    End If

End Sub

It should work fine in the change event handler.

Did you place it in the specific worksheets code page?

Chris

telyni19:

Swapping true and false is easy enough but is not necessarily appropriate as we do not know if it is to be hidden until the condition is met or hidden if the condition is met.

The key comment was "row 75 remains visible" which implies the status does not change and therefore the function isn't working at all.

Chris

Chris:
I'll let the author of the question tell me whether the cell should be hidden if the condition is met or not. (You're right, that hasn't actually been specified, which would be useful information.) However, aside from that, your function looks as if it should work, so the first thing I would think to try, given the information that it does not hide the row when it should, is to switch the values so that it should hide the row when the condition is met rather than the reverse. If that also does not do what the author intended, then there is a more subtle problem, and we really need to clarify what the function should be doing to avoid confusion.

Ok I tried several versions.  D71 is =IF(data!C57="Yes","*Requires 2 signatures*"," ")
So if D71 = " " then it should hide row 75, else do not hide.
The code is in the appropriate worksheet change

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Cells(71, 4) = " " Then
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = True
    Else
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = False
    End If
End Sub

Is the code running at all? Can you put a breakpoint on the If statement and make sure the code is getting that far? Then check what it thinks the value of Cells(71,4) is. Spaces are hard to track, so you could try "" in the IF function in D71 instead and then use this line for the If statement instead:
If Len(Cells(71, 4)) = 0

I changed D71  to show "" and changed the code to If Len(Cells(71, 4)) = 0

I put breaks on all the lines and now the code works but only if the code is ran manually.  

Is it possible that the code runs every time D71 is changed?

Yes, the code will run every time any cell on the worksheet is changed. The Worksheet_Change Sub is automatically triggered. If you don't want that and simply want to trigger it manually or on a button click or something, then you'd want to use a regular named Sub, as you had originally.

It does not work unless the code is ran manually.  D71 cell is changed and the row does not unhide.

I have tried these variations.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Len(Cells(71, 4)) = 0 Then
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = True
    Else
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = False
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Len(Range("D" & 71) = 0 Then
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = True
    Else
        Rows(75).EntireRow.Hidden = False
    End If

End Sub

>>>I put breaks on all the lines and now the code works but only if the code is ran manually.  
It wouldn't do so if defined as the change handler since the parameter Target  wouldn't allow it to.

Can you upload a sample workbook ... delete all the data to make it secure.

Chris

Thank you Chris but our internal policy and firewalls prevents us from posting or exporting files.

I will tell the user to hide the row manyally, we have spent enough time on this.

Thank you .

The solution should work and the code is accurate however i am unable to make it work due to internal policies.