Using VBA Macro to format a column into Comma Style

kahlua17

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I have a macro that creates an email based on the contents of each column in the worksheet. The macro works great, but I would like to format a column (A) which contains numbers into the Comma Style, prior to sending out the email.

Is there a VBA code that will format a given column (A) into a certain style (Currency, Comma, Percentage, etc) ?

Thanks
 

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Code:
Columns("A:A").NumberFormat = "General"
Columns("A:A").NumberFormat = "Comma"
Columns("A:A").NumberFormat = "Percent"
Columns("A:A").NumberFormat = "Currency"
 
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Thanks. I also found that this works.

Code:
Columns("A:A").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "#,##0.00"
 
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Thanks. I also found that this works.

Code:

Columns("A:A").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "#,##0.00"

True, but selecting a column/row/range to apply formatting (or to do just about anything!) is inefficient, as it will slow down your code.
 
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True. However, it turns out that it doesn't work for what I need. I have a formula that runs through several rows and collects information from each row, generates an email, and sends that out. The way the numbers are loaded into the file, there is no formatting. So $1,000.50 shows up as 1000.5 which is wrong. The formatting of the cell only changes its appearance, and what I need to do is change the actual number. The code that I have which captures the cell that contains the number is :

Code:
& cell.Offset(0, -2).Value

Thanks.
 
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Instead of Value use Text.
Code:
& cell.Offset(0, -2).Text
 
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Eh, you indicated it was formatted?:o

Text should return the value as it's formatted. ie how you see it
 
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It's funny. The first time I tried the .Text extension, it didn't work. Now it does work, but it leaves a large leading space, even though there are no characters preceding the number.

Here is the output (I manually entered in the _ to indicate the blank spaces:

Report Number 123456 ($ __________1,000.50 ).

Here is the full code of that line :

Code:
"Report Number " & cell.Offset(0, -4).Value & " ($ " & cell.Offset(0, -2).Text & ").

I find that resizing the column does have an effect as well. If I resize it so that no values are showing, I get a # sign. If I resize it so that it fits all of the values, I still get a large preceding space.
 
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