Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 17:39:53 CST 2007
Bizarrely enough, this appears to be the answer. Those accursed single quotes! Who knew? Arthur On Nov 28, 2007 3:37 PM, O'Connor, Patricia (OTDA) <Patricia.O'Connor at otda.state.ny.us> wrote: > hi Arthur > Sorry I am not at work to really try this out before sending a answer > if I had a copy of the excel spreadsheet I could play with it a bit more > and test > But when building strings and I tend to put the " and ' in using the CHR() > and have gotten around many problems > > Dim strFormula as String > strFormula = CHR(34) & "=VBLOOKUP(A6," & CHR(39) & > strFormula = strFormula & "S:\Lgroup\Fundacct\Excel\!INVPORT\CSV > FILES\Sep07\[# of securities.xls]SOI" > strFormula = strFormula & CHR(39) & "!$B$3:$C$100,2,TRUE)" & CHR(34) > > or > strFormula = "=VBLOOKUP(A6," & CHR(39) & > strFormula = strFormula & "S:\Lgroup\Fundacct\Excel\!INVPORT\CSV > FILES\Sep07\[# of securities.xls]SOI" > strFormula = strFormula & CHR(39) & "!$B$3:$C$100,2,TRUE)" > > HTH > Patti > >