FormulaR1C1

[V. III]

Can someone explain simply what the properties of FormulaR1C1 are.

Thanks

V

 

[fairwinds]

From help file: (I think it is quite simle)

In R1C1 reference style, Microsoft Excel indicates the location of a cell with an "R" followed by a row number and a "C" followed by a column number. For example, the absolute cell reference R1C1 is equivalent to the absolute reference $A$1 in A1 reference style. If the active cell is A1, the relative cell reference R[1]C[1] refers to the cell one row down and one column to the right, or B2.

The following are examples of references in R1C1 style.


R[-2]C - A relative reference to the cell two rows up and in the same column
R[2]C[2] - A relative reference to the cell two rows down and two columns to the right
R2C2 - An absolute reference to the cell in the second row and in the second column
R[-1] - A relative reference to the entire row above the active cell
R - An absolute reference to the current row

 

[V. III]

Thanks, thats just about simple enough

 

[Sid_London]

So... if I wanted to fill in relative cell C3 with the word 'January', I would use...

Range("B2") .Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1

...and Excel would move down one and across one from the active cell (in this case B2) and enter the word January?

Obviously that's a convoluted way of doing it. But in terms of what the FormulaR1C1 does, is this correct?

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

The FormulaR1C1 property is like the Formula property, except that it requires an R1C1 style reference to be passed to it. It puts a formula in a range; it doesn't change the selection. What you need is one of:

ActiveCell.Offset(1, 1).Value = "January"
ActiveCel.Cells(2, 2).Value = "January"
ActiveCell.Range("B2").Value = "January"

 

[Sid_London]

Ok, that makes more sense (I think). So the FormulaR1C1 bit is just specifying that it needs a cell reference type range for the 'January' text to be entered into? So I could technically remove the R1C1 part and as long as I kept a cell reference as the range then it would still work (although it could cause issues if a non-cell reference range was added)?

I'm not trying to actually enter anything myself. Just trying to get a clear idea of FormulaR1C1.

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

As I said the FormulaR1C1 property is like the Formula property, except that it requires an R1C1 style reference to be passed to it. It puts a formula in a range. If B2 contains the formula =C3, the equivalent in R1C1 reference style would be =R[1]C[1].

 

[Sid_London]

Ok, thank you. I only started learning VBA two days ago, so apologies if my question seemed a bit naive.