XL: Visual Basic Macro to Show Active Cell's Range Names

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel for Windows NT, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that finds all named ranges that contain the active cell on a worksheet and displays the names in a series of message boxes.

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If the macro finds a range name that includes the active cell, it displays a message box showing the range name. Once all names have been checked, the macro displays a message box showing that there are "No More Names."

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

Sub Find_Names()

   ' Loop through all names in workbook.
   For Each n In ActiveWorkbook.Names

   ' Set Error Handling so macro will not fail when it
   ' encounters a name that does not refer to a worksheet range.
   On Error Resume Next
   ' Check to see if the name refers to the ActiveSheet.
   If Mid(n.RefersTo, 2, InStr(n.RefersTo, "!") - 2) = _
      ActiveSheet.Name Then
      ' If name refers to ActiveSheet, then find the intersection of the
      ' named range and the ActiveCell.
      ' If the ActiveCell is in the named range, "y" will equal "Range",
      ' otherwise y equals "".
      Set y = Intersect(ActiveCell, Range(n.RefersTo))
      ' Display a message box if the ActiveCell is in the named range.
         If TypeName(y) = "Range" Then MsgBox "Cell is in : " & n.Name
   End If
   Next
   MsgBox "No More Names!"   ' Display message when finished.
End Sub

REFERENCES

"Visual Basic User's Guide," version 5.0, Chapter 7, "Controlling How Your Code Runs"

For more information on using looping in Visual Basic macros, click the Search button in Programming with Visual Basic Help and type:

   Loops

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