[AccessD] Manipulating Excel Cells

Can you use the old trick of recording a macro and looking at the code?

Rocky


John Colby wrote:
> I'm baaaack.  ;-)
>
> Here's the deal.  I am working with a spreadsheet that has columns of
> systems and rows of documents.  Therefore each cell represents a
> system-document.  BTW, this was a "source" for me to build a pair of tables
> - tblSystem and tblDocument.  I then added a field to tblDocument called
> SpreadsheetRow and a field to tblSystem called SpreadsheetColumn.  
>
>
> We are tracking the receipt of these documents.  The client now wants to
> see, back in his original spreadsheet, the "status" of a given system
> document using colors to express the status - white = not assigned, red =
> not received, yellow = partial receipt, green = received.
>
> So... I have to go "poke colors" out into the spreadsheet.  I have
> discovered the "area" property which has a color attribute.  What I need now
> is a translation from the column LETTERS to a column number since for some
> bizarre reason the columns have letter names but cells are referenced by
> column numbers.  "Brain damaged children" as Bill Cosby would say.
>
> Does anyone have code for manipulating cells by cell(intRowNumbers,
> strColNames)?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com 
>
>
>   

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Rocky Smolin
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