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- From: r-mcdonald@nwu.edu (Robert McDonald)
- Subject: Re: Quattro Macros--Help!
- Message-ID: <r-mcdonald.14.0@nwu.edu>
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- Organization: Northwestern University
- References: <0f34YZW00WBN88i1sO@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:53:52 GMT
-
- In article <0f34YZW00WBN88i1sO@andrew.cmu.edu> Stephen Sorensen <ss9o+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:10:45 -0500
- >From: Stephen Sorensen <ss9o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- >Subject: Quattro Macros--Help!
- >Hi folks,
- >Can ANYONE answer my question about using macros in Quattropro (I'm
- >using qp 4.0 for windows) ? All I want to do is have a macro go through
- >and color all the cells with numbers; I want it to leave the blank cells
- >alone. So far, I've got something like this:
- > {IF #NOT#@Active_Cell}{RIGHT}
- > {Setproperty....}
- > {Right}
- >
- >I keep getting an error message about an invalid statement. Does anyone
- >know how to properly use such an "IF" clause ? The Quattro manuals seem
- >basically useless.
- >
- >Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Steve
- >
-
- First, sorry to all about my previous incomplete posting; I
- accidentally sent it in the middle of typing and couldn't stop it.
-
- There are two solutions to what you want to do. The non-macro solution
- (which *sounds* as if it would suffice, based on your description) is to
- select /Options,colors,conditional and you can then set numeric values to
- display in whatever color you want.
-
- A macro solution would be to use the fact that @cell can check whether a
- cell has a value in it:
-
- {if @cell("type",a1)="v"}etc...
-
- and you could cycle through the spreadsheet, perhaps using @cellindex in
- place of "a1". The first solution is definitely the easiest if it does what
- you want.
-
- -- Bob
-
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