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Excel VBA Select Case issue

I am still in the beginer stage of VBA programming but a long time Excel user. I am in need of some assitance in writing a modified code. My task is to highlight rows in excel based on a keyword in a "T" column. Column "T" will have either Open, Closed, Recalled. I've tried using conditional formatting, but it wasnt working past first row. I have written a macro to do the highlighting and it works great. Here is the code...

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim oCell As Range
For Each oCell In Range("$T2:$T5000")
    Select Case oCell.Value
        Case Is = "Closed"
            oCell.EntireRow.Interior.Color = RGB(196, 215, 155)
        Case Is = "Recalled"
            oCell.EntireRow.Interior.Color = RGB(191, 191, 191)
        Case Is = "Open"
            oCell.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
    End Select
Next oCell
End Sub

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But now I have a new challenge. When I receive an document for review and its been reviewed, I record the Reviewed Date in Column "O" for that document.

Here is the problem.

Current macro just looks at Column"T" and highlights the rows.

While the document is in "Open" status, I need that row to be highlighted by a different color based on the cell not being empty in Column "O" ( it will have a reviewed date). Afterwards, when Column "T" changes to either "Closed" or "Recalled", for that same document, the rows will be highlighted accordingly, regardless if the cell is empty or not empty in Column "O".

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dlmille

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dlmille

May I suggest a couple optimization steps? Is there a need to look at every row in column T from row 2 to 5000, or just the row where a change has (or changes have) been made?

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

    If Not Intersect(Target, Range("T2:T5000")) Is Nothing Then
    
        For Each oCell In Target
        
                Select Case oCell.Value
                    Case Is = "Closed"
                        oCell.EntireRow.Interior.Color = RGB(196, 215, 155)
                    Case Is = "Recalled"
                        oCell.EntireRow.Interior.Color = RGB(191, 191, 191)
                    Case Is = "Open"
                        If Cells(oCell.Row, "O").Value = vbNullString Then
                            oCell.EntireRow.Interior.Color = vbYellow
                        Else
                            oCell.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
                        End If
                End Select
        Next oCell
        
    End If
End Sub

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This code (above) checks only the rows that have been changed in column T (2:5000) and is triggered by Worksheet_Change() event, as opposed to Worksheet_SelectionChange() event, so should be much more efficient.

May I also ask what should be done if the value in column T were blank? You don't seem to have code handling that, so you might be highlighting a row after the column T value were cleared, that didn't need highlighting.

Dave

toalexsandr

ASKER

Wow, this works perfect. Thanks Dave.

toalexsandr

ASKER

Yes, I dont mind optimizations.

I only need it to respond to when the status of the cell in column T changes.

You are right, I havent even considered when removing status in Column T to remove highlighting, and I just checked, and its not removing highlighting.