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How to create a message box if a column contains certain text any of its cells

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Hi, I have a spreadsheet and in column W the cells contain a formula to show if a completion date has not been met:
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  1. =IF(V88>N88,"On Target","Critical completion date has been missed!")
I would like a message box to appear reading "Critical completion date has been missed!"if any of the cells in column W contain "Critical completion date has been missed!"
Any ideas???
Sep 28 '12 #1
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Rabbit
12,516 Expert Mod 8TB
I would use VBA to check for the changes in the values and then show a message box if the criteria matches. If you don't know VBA, you'll want to learn it.
Sep 28 '12 #2
Killer42
8,435 Expert 8TB
One thing you might try is to invoke a VBA function to do the check and return the value that your expressin currently produces. Since you're now in your own code, you can pop up a message box if you want.

You'd have to come up with some way to prevent the message box from popping up every time you calculate, though.
Sep 29 '12 #3

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