Putting an X in a Clicked Cell

In the second macro it makes no sense to use a loop to cope with multiple cell ranges. Try it, select a range and when you double click on any cell in the range, the range disappears and the clicked cell becomes the active cell. So the macro can be drastically simplified from 11 to 3 lines code:

Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)
If Intersect(Target, Range("C3:P312")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Target.Value = "x"
Cancel = True
End Sub

How could ellens code be modified to clear the selection when the cell already has a "X" inside

i have modified his codes to my needs below(it works) but is there any else i should remove/change?

Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick( _
ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim rInt As Range
Dim selectedCell As Range

Set rInt = Intersect(Target, Range("C:C"))
If Not rInt Is Nothing Then
For Each selectedCell In rInt
selectedCell.Value = "RECEIVED"
Next
End If

Set rInt = Intersect(Target, Range("C:C"))
If Not rInt Is Nothing Then
For Each selectedCell In rInt
selectedCell.Value = ""
Next
End If

Set rInt = Intersect(Target, Range("D:D"))
If Not rInt Is Nothing Then
For Each selectedCell In rInt
selectedCell.Value = "INSTALLED"
Next
End If
Set rInt = Nothing
Set selectedCell = Nothing
Cancel = True

End Sub

Peter,

thank you very much!

Best regards,
Roibert

Robert

I have editied the first sub so that it will only enter one "x" into a column. You can change the range iwhen eting the range e.g.
Set rInt = Intersect(Target, Range("C3:P312")) to
Set rInt = Intersect(Target, Range("C3:P20, H3:K45"))

the code with same range is

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim rInt As Range
Dim rCell As Range
Dim rColumn As Range
Dim counter As Integer

Set rInt = Intersect(Target, Range("C3:P312"))

If Not rInt Is Nothing Then
Set rColumn = Range(Cells(3, rInt.Column), Cells(312, rInt.Column))

counter = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(rColumn, "=x")
If counter > 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
For Each rCell In rInt
rCell.Value = "x"
Next
End If

End Sub

Hi,
please, can you add a few lines into Niefer's code which will enable to use several ranges with the same principle within each range (no more than one x in one range)?

I will appreciate your help!
How can I find your answer? Can you e-mail it to me or you will post it in this thread?

Best regards!
Robert

Reading between the lines, it seems likely that Wendy would want the behavior of a check-box on a form - so the "X" isn't really the character X but diagonal lines spanning the entire cell. And as it turns out, Excel can do that ... Niefer was headed there with a macro that seems to have been designed to implement the behavior of a Radio Box (only one cell has the X; clicking on a different one would clear the X from all the other cells in MyRange). The next step would be to implement a Conditional Format such that if the value is 0 (in the case of Niefer's macro) or blank (for Allen's), the cell has a neutral format, while if it contains 1 or "X" the cell is formatted with diagonal border lines.

Now some questions:
- Why did Allen include the "Set rInt = Nothing" and "Set rCell = Nothing" lines in his double-click macro? Once the macro completes, don't these pointer variables disappear back into the heap? What danger could there be in leaving them alone?
- What is the effect of the "Cancel = True"? I'm guessing that it prevents the handler from being called again to handle anything that the handler itself does that Excel would interpret as another double-click; is this here just because it's a good practice, or is there something in this macro that would trigger this event? What is that? Does Niefer's "Application.EnableEvents = False" and then True accomplish the same purpose?
- Allen cycles through multiple cells in the intersection range. This seems reasonable in most event handlers - but help me understand how you could trigger a double-click event for more than one cell. It's not like you could do down-drag-release twice in a row in quick-enough succession that Excel interprets it as a double-click. So it seems to me that a double-click would always be for exactly one cell.
- Why did Niefer include "Selection.FormulaR1C1 = 0"? What is the value of Selection here (there's no ".Select" method applied prior to that spot in the macro) - is it perhaps the selection that was active before the event that triggered the SelectionChange macro? Is this how the macro is meant to implement Radio Box behavior?
- Allen's SelectionChange macro did not have a Target.Select statement, while Niefer's did - is one missing, is the other superfluous, or is this somehow wrapped up in Niefer's Application.EnableEvents = False?

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.EnableEvents = False
If Target.Cells.Count = 1 Then
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("MyRange")) Is Nothing Then
Application.Goto Reference:="MyRange"
Selection.FormulaR1C1 = "0"
Target.Value = "1"
End If
End If
Target.Select
Application.EnableEvents = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub