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Hi Folks.

I have this bit of code that is not working as expected. The goal is to highlight a cell with either a red font highlighted interior color if it's value is below or above a given benchmark. The benchmarks are different for each cell...
B21 - 3% or lower
C21 - 25% or higher
D21 - 20% or higher
E21 - 15% or lower
F21 - 15% or higher
G21 - 22% or lower

In some instance there is no value in the cell and in those cases I simply want to ignore the cell and move on. What's happening is even if a cell is blank, it ends up getting either a red font or highlighted interior as if there is a value in it. Here's what I'm working with... I can't wait to see how the guru's here compress this down to three or four lines of code. :)

VBA Code:
    'Column B WTD +/-
    If Range("B21") > 0.03 Then
        Range("B21").Font.Color = 255
    Else
        If Range("B21") < 0.03 Then
            Range("B21").Interior.Color = 65535
        Else
        End If
    End If
    
    'Column C WTD +/-
    If Range("C21") < 0.25 Then
        Range("C21").Font.Color = 255
    Else
        If Range("C21") >= 0.25 Then
            Range("C21").Interior.Color = 65535
        Else
        End If
    End If
    
    'Column D WTD +/-
    If Range("D21") < 0.2 Then
        Range("D21").Font.Color = 255
    Else
        If Range("D21") > 0.2 Then
            Range("D21").Interior.Color = 65535
        Else
        End If
    End If
    
    'Column E WTD +/-
    If Range("E21") > 0.15 Then
        Range("E21").Font.Color = 255
    Else
        If Range("E21") < 0.15 Then
            Range("E21").Interior.Color = 65535
        Else
        End If
    End If
    
    'Column F WTD +/-
    If Range("F21") < 0.15 Then
        Range("F21").Font.Color = 255
    Else
        If Range("F21") > 0.15 Then
            Range("F21").Interior.Color = 65535
        Else
        End If
    End If
    
    'Column G WTD +/-
    If Range("G21") > 0.22 Then
        Range("G21").Font.Color = 255
    Else
        If Range("G21") < 0.22 Then
            Range("G21").Interior.Color = 65535
        Else
        End If
    End If
 

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Just add another condition to each IF to make sure they are not blank, i.e.
change
VBA Code:
If Range("B21") > 0.03 Then
to
VBA Code:
If (Range("B21") > 0.03) And (Range("B21") <> "") Then
 
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Solution
Just add another condition to each IF to make sure they are not blank, i.e.
change
VBA Code:
If Range("B21") > 0.03 Then
to
VBA Code:
If (Range("B21") > 0.03) And (Range("B21") <> "") Then
Thanks! I didn't think about that.
 
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You are welcome.

Actually, now that I think about, you don't need it in all instances
For example, if you are checking for it to be "> 0.03", there is no way it can be that and blank (zero) at the same time.
So really, you only need it for ones where zero can be found, like this:
VBA Code:
    If Range("C21") < 0.25 Then
as 0 is < 0.25, so that one would need to be:
VBA Code:
    If (Range("C21") < 0.25)  And (Range("B21") <> "") Then

But ones like:
VBA Code:
If Range("B21") > 0.03 Then
should be fine, as-is.
 
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