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CELL function

The CELL function returns information about the formatting, location, or contents of a cell. For example, if you want to verify that a cell contains a numeric value instead of text before you perform a calculation on it, you can use the following formula:

This formula calculates A1*2 only if cell A1 contains a numeric value, and returns 0 if A1 contains text or is blank.

Note: Formulas that use CELL have language-specific argument values and will return errors if calculated using a different language version of Excel. For example, if you create a formula containing CELL while using the Czech version of Excel, that formula will return an error if the workbook is opened using the French version. If it is important for others to open your workbook using different language versions of Excel, consider either using alternative functions or allowing others to save local copies in which they revise the CELL arguments to match their language.

Syntax

The CELL function syntax has the following arguments:

A text value that specifies what type of cell information you want to return. The following list shows the possible values of the Info_type argument and the corresponding results.

The cell that you want information about.

If omitted, the information specified in the info_type argument is returned for cell selected at the time of calculation. If the reference argument is a range of cells, the CELL function returns the information for active cell in the selected range.

Important: Although technically reference is optional, including it in your formula is encouraged, unless you understand the effect its absence has on your formula result and want that effect in place. Omitting the reference argument does not reliably produce information about a specific cell, for the following reasons:

In automatic calculation mode, when a cell is modified by a user the calculation may be triggered before or after the selection has progressed, depending on the platform you’re using for Excel. For example, Excel for Windows currently triggers calculation before selection changes, but Excel for the web triggers it afterward.

When Co-Authoring with another user who makes an edit, this function will report your active cell rather than the editor’s.

Any recalculation, for instance pressing F9, will cause the function to return a new result even though no cell edit has occurred.

info_type values

The following list describes the text values that can be used for the info_type argument. These values must be entered in the CELL function with quotes (» «).

Reference of the first cell in reference, as text.

Column number of the cell in reference.

The value 1 if the cell is formatted in color for negative values; otherwise returns 0 (zero).

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

Value of the upper-left cell in reference; not a formula.

Filename (including full path) of the file that contains reference, as text. Returns empty text («») if the worksheet that contains reference has not yet been saved.

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

Text value corresponding to the number format of the cell. The text values for the various formats are shown in the following table. Returns «-» at the end of the text value if the cell is formatted in color for negative values. Returns «()» at the end of the text value if the cell is formatted with parentheses for positive or all values.

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

The value 1 if the cell is formatted with parentheses for positive or all values; otherwise returns 0.

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

Text value corresponding to the «label prefix» of the cell. Returns single quotation mark (‘) if the cell contains left-aligned text, double quotation mark («) if the cell contains right-aligned text, caret (^) if the cell contains centered text, backslash () if the cell contains fill-aligned text, and empty text («») if the cell contains anything else.

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

The value 0 if the cell is not locked; otherwise returns 1 if the cell is locked.

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

Row number of the cell in reference.

Text value corresponding to the type of data in the cell. Returns «b» for blank if the cell is empty, «l» for label if the cell contains a text constant, and «v» for value if the cell contains anything else.

Returns an array with 2 items.

The 1st item in the array is the column width of the cell, rounded off to an integer. Each unit of column width is equal to the width of one character in the default font size.

The 2nd item in the array is a Boolean value, the value is TRUE if the column width is the default or FALSE if the width has been explicitly set by the user.

Note: This value is not supported in Excel for the web, Excel Mobile, and Excel Starter.

CELL format codes

The following list describes the text values that the CELL function returns when the Info_type argument is «format» and the reference argument is a cell that is formatted with a built-in number format.

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CELL Function

Summary

The Excel CELL function returns information about a cell in a worksheet. The type of information to be returned is specified as info_type. CELL can get things like address and filename, as well as detailed info about the formatting used in the cell. See below for a full list of information available.

Purpose

Return value

Arguments

• info_type — The type of information to return about the reference.
• reference — [optional] The reference from which to extract information.

Syntax

Usage notes

Use the CELL function to return a wide range of information about a reference. The type of information returned is given as info_type, which must be enclosed in double quotes («»). CELL can return a cell’s address, the filename and path for a workbook, and information about the formatting used in the cell. See below for a full list of info types and format codes.

The CELL function takes two arguments: info_type and reference. Info_type is a text string that indicates the type of information requested. See the table below for a full list of info types. Reference is a cell reference. Reference is typically a single cell. If reference refers to more than one cell, CELL returns information about the first cell in reference. For certain kinds of information (like filename) the cell address used for reference is optional and can be omitted. However, if reference is not supplied, CELL will return the name of the current «active sheet» which may or may not be the sheet where the formula exists, and might even be in a different workbook. To avoid confusion, use A1 for reference.

Note: the CELL function is a volatile function and may cause performance issues in large or complex worksheets.

Examples

For example, to get the column number for C10:

To get the address of A1 as text:

To get the full path and workbook name for the current worksheet:

CELL can also return format code information. For example, if A1 contains the number 100 with the currency number format applied, the CELL function will return «C2»:

When requesting the info_type «format» or «parentheses», a set of empty parentheses «()» is appended to the format returned if the number format uses parentheses for all values or for positive values. For example, if A1 uses the custom number format (0), then:

Info types

The following info_types can be used with the CELL function:

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VBA Cell Value – Get, Set, or Change

In this Article

This tutorial will teach you how to interact with Cell Values using VBA.

Set Cell Value

To set a Cell Value, use the Value property of the Range or Cells object.

Range.Value & Cells.Value

There are two ways to reference cell(s) in VBA:

• Range Object – Range(“A2”).Value
• Cells Object – Cells(2,1).Value

The Range object allows you to reference a cell using the standard “A1” notation.

This will set the range A2’s value = 1:

The Cells object allows you to reference a cell by it’s row number and column number.

This will set range A2’s value = 1:

Notice that you enter the row number first:

Set Multiple Cells’ Values at Once

Instead of referencing a single cell, you can reference a range of cells and change all of the cell values at once:

Set Cell Value – Text

In the above examples, we set the cell value equal to a number (1). Instead, you can set the cell value equal to a string of text. In VBA, all text must be surrounded by quotations:

If you don’t surround the text with quotations, VBA will think you referencing a variable…

Set Cell Value – Variable

You can also set a cell value equal to a variable

Get Cell Value

You can get cell values using the same Value property that we used above.

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Get ActiveCell Value

To get the ActiveCell value and display it in a message box:

Assign Cell Value to Variable

To get a cell value and assign it to a variable:

Here we used a variable of type Variant. Variant variables can accept any type of values. Instead, you could use a String variable type:

A String variable type will accept numerical values, but it will store the numbers as text.

If you know your cell value will be numerical, you could use a Double variable type (Double variables can store decimal values):

However, if you attempt to store a cell value containing text in a double variable, you will receive an type mismatch error:

Other Cell Value Examples

Copy Cell Value

It’s easy to set a cell value equal to another cell value (or “Copy” a cell value):

You can even do this with ranges of cells (the ranges must be the same size):

Compare Cell Values

You can compare cell values using the standard comparison operators.

Test if cell values are equal:

Will return TRUE if cell values are equal. Otherwise FALSE.

You can also create an If Statement to compare cell values:

You can compare text in the same way (Remember that VBA is Case Sensitive)

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Value exists in a range

Summary

To test if a value exists in a range of cells, you can use a simple formula based on the COUNTIF function and the IF function. In the example shown, the formula in F5, copied down, is:

where data is the named range B5:B16. As the formula is copied down it returns «Yes» if the value in column E exists in B5:B16 and «No» if not.

Generic formula

Explanation

In this example, the goal is to use a formula to check if a specific value exists in a range. The easiest way to do this is to use the COUNTIF function to count occurences of a value in a range, then use the count to create a final result.

COUNTIF function

The COUNTIF function counts cells that meet supplied criteria. The generic syntax looks like this:

Range is the range of cells to test, and criteria is a condition that should be tested. COUNTIF returns the number of cells in range that meet the condition defined by criteria. If no cells meet criteria, COUNTIF returns zero. In the example shown, we can use COUNTIF to count the values we are looking for like this

Once the named range data (B5:B16) and cell E5 have been evaluated, we have:

COUNTIF returns 1 because «Blue» occurs in the range B5:B16 once. Next, we use the greater than operator (>) to run a simple test to force a TRUE or FALSE result:

By itself, the formula above will return TRUE or FALSE. The last part of the problem is to return a «Yes» or «No» result. To handle this, we nest the formula above into the IF function like this:

This is the formula shown in the worksheet above. As the formula is copied down, COUNTIF returns a count of the value in column E. If the count is greater than zero, the IF function returns «Yes». If the count is zero, IF returns «No».

Slightly abbreviated

It is possible to shorten this formula slightly and get the same result like this:

Here, we have remove the «>0» test. Instead, we simply return the count to IF as the logical_test. This works because Excel will treat any non-zero number as TRUE when the number is evaluated as a Boolean.

Testing for a partial match

To test a range to see if it contains a substring (a partial match), you can add a wildcard to the formula. For example, if you have a value to look for in cell C1, and you want to check the range A1:A100 for partial matches, you can configure COUNTIF to look for the value in C1 anywhere in a cell by concatenating asterisks on both sides:

The asterisk (*) is a wildcard for one or more characters. By concatenating asterisks before and after the value in C1, the formula will count the text in C1 anywhere it appears in each cell of the range. To return «Yes» or «No», nest the formula inside the IF function as above.

An alternative formula using MATCH

As an alternative, you can use a formula that uses the MATCH function with the ISNUMBER function instead of COUNTIF:

The MATCH function returns the position of a match (as a number) if found, and #N/A if not found. By wrapping MATCH inside ISNUMBER, the final result will be TRUE when MATCH finds a match and FALSE when MATCH returns #N/A.

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