IfBold/IsBold ???

gazza52 · Nov 24, 2003

I have what I thought would be a simple task however, as I cannot find any info on it, I may be wrong.

The scanario is a large list of competitors playing a knockout competition (Golf). I only want to write their names once so I thought I could list each match (2 players) and as a player wins his match I would change his name to bold (ie CTL + B). This would then automatically carry over to the next match.

With the above in mind, below is an example of a match where Players 1 and 3 would be "bold" in column A. C3 and C4 would have the formula to select the players who name is in bold:

(A1) Player 1
(A2) Player 2
>>>>>>>>>> (C3) Player 1
>>>>>>>>>> (C4) Player 3
(A5) Player 3
(A6) Player 4

I Have been trying various formulas using IfBold and IsBold and have tried some of the UDF's from the forum but I am at the headbanging stage. Any assistance would be appreciated. I am not very experienced with Visual Basic if the help goes in that direction.

onlyadrafter · Nov 24, 2003

Hello,

Could you not use CONDITIONAL FORMATTING where in cell A1 you have the CONDITION as

Formula is =B3=CELL("contents",A1)

A2 CONDITION as

Formula is = B3=CELL("contents",A2)

A5 CONDITION is

Formula is = B5=CELL("contents",A4)

and A6 CONDITION is

Formula is = B3=CELL("contents",A5)

You can then use the format painter for other cells.

gazza52 · Nov 26, 2003

Thanks for your input Onlyadrafter however, I do not think I explained my problem very well. So I have included a quick and dirty abbreviation table of what I want below.

Book2.xls

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

1

Player1

2

Player2

3

Player1

4

Player4

5

Player3

6

Player4

7

Player4

8

Player6

9

Player5

10

Player6

11

Player6

12

Player7

13

Player7

14

Player8

15

16

17

Example1-AfterinitialDrawbeforeanygamesplayed.

Example2-After2matches.ThewinnersofeachmatcharemadeboldbyCtlB.

Sheet1

The table would be much larger than above and the idea is to only input the names once in column A, which I do via a macro. I now want a formula which will automatically update the following games in Column C and E (as per exampe two) when I convert one of the names from each match in column A to Bold (via Ctl B).

I hope the table looks better when I post than the preview I am looking at. I have been trying to master Colo's HTML Maker.

Thanks for any help in advance.

fairwinds · Nov 26, 2003

Hi,
One way could be to put an x next to the winner, conditionally format the player next to the x to bold and then bring him on with a vlookup.

Book1

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

2

Player1

3

x

Player2

4

Player2

5

x

Player3

6

x

Player3

7

Player4

8

x

Player3

9

Player5

10

x

Player5

11

Player6

12

x

Player5

13

Player7

14

x

Player7

15

Player8

Sheet4

gazza52 · Nov 27, 2003

Thanks Fairwinds,
It worked perfectly. The beauty of this forum is that you get different perspectives on the problem at hand. I was stuck on the "IsBold" and "IfBold" aspect and couldn't see the ripples for the waves.

Happy sailing.

Richie(UK) · Nov 27, 2003

Hi,

As regards the original query, using the following UDF (which is, I assume, similar to what you were using):

Code:

Function IsBold(rng As Range)
    Application.Volatile
    IsBold = rng.Font.Bold
End Function

I got the following results (you will need to press F9 to force a recalculate after adding Bold to a particular cell):

Book1

A

B

C

D

E

F

1

2

Player1

3

Player2

4

Player2

5

Player3

6

Player3

7

Player4

8

Player2

9

Player5

10

Player5

11

Player6

12

Player5

13

Player7

14

Player7

15

Player8

16

Sheet1

HTH

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