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Create a tooltip displaying the contents of a cell in VBA for Excel 2003

Hi everybody,

In a worksheet, I have a column that reads and displays the content of cells from another worksheet. As my column is too narrow to display the whole information, I wrote a VBA macro that would display that actual contents when right-clicking the cell and selecting the macro in the shortcut menu.

However I was wondering whether I could create in VBA a tooltip that would do the same just when hovering around the cell using the mouse.

Any idea for me to get started?

Many thanks in advance for any clue.

Cheers.

PG

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dlmille

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pg111

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Thanks, dlmille.

I will think it over and make sure to let you know of the outcome.

Cheers.

PG

pg111

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Hi Dave,

Thanks again for your suggestion. I apologize for not being able to test it earlier but I've been busy those past few days. Now I'm reverting to you as promised.

Actually my problem seems simpler than in the example you referred me to.

I'm having a worksheet in which range E2:E14 displays jobs' names from other worksheets in the same workbook. So the value for each cell in that range is dynamically updated by a formula (e.g. =IF(Proj_Trad1_nom<>"";Proj_Trad1_nom;"").

As my column E is too narrow to display the full contents of the current cell, further your suggested approach, I would like a comment to be automatically generated when loading the worksheet that reads the value for each cell in the range E2:E14 and populates a comment with it I could display.

I tweaked the code from Sid as flws:

Dim strComment As String

Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
    
If Intersect(Range("E2"), Range("E14")) Is Nothing Then
    Application.EnableEvents = False
    
    For i = 2 To 14
        If Range("E" & i).Value <> "" Then
            strComment = Range("E" & i).Value
            If Len(Trim(strComment)) = 0 Then
                Range("E2:E14").ClearComments
            Else
                With Range("E" & i)
                    .ClearComments
                    .AddComment
                    .Comment.Visible = False
                    .Comment.Text Text:=strComment
                End With
                strComment = ""
            End If
        End If
    Next i
    
    Application.EnableEvents = True
End If

End Sub

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So it works just fine by using the Activate event i/o Change for the current worksheet.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers.

Patrick

dlmille

Well, that's just fabulous.

Well done!

But, may I ask what you mean to accomplish with this statement which will always be TRUE?

If Intersect(Range("E2"), Range("E14")) Is Nothing Then

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and your "tooltip" has the same comment for the entire E2:E14 range, yes?

Dave

pg111

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Hi Dave,

You're right about the Intersect statement. I was just wondering whether I could remove it without affecting the remaining code.

Actually each cell in the involved range (E2:E14) is being added a comment with its actual contents (value). Each tooltip is different.

So I could achieve what I wanted to get: a tooltip for each cell in the range.

dlmille

Great - yes, you can remove the IF intersect is nothing then statement, and the end if that goes with it, or you could just change

IF INTERSECT() THEN to

If True Then 'and put comments here to remind you you could use an intersect statement her to gauge whether the code should run or not.

However, the only way to manage that is with the mouse hover routine, so unless you actually clicked in the cell and used the code on a selection change event, the intersect may have no value for you.

Cheers,

Dave