How do I reference the current cell?

[RonMcK]

Bob and all you other lurking gurus,

How do I tell my program to use the contents of the currently selected cell? I want to take Chip Pearson's program for formating time values (which he wrote as a worksheet_change()) and run it instead as a user-selected macro.

In his program, Chip tells the code which cell(s) are selected by having Excel look at Target as Excel.Range; it checks whether the selected 'Target' is in the specified Range by getting the Intersection of Target and the stipulated Range.

How do I modify this code so it is invoked by the user on a user selected Cell? Do I still refer to my selected cell using Target? Or do I need to use a different reference?

[vba]Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
' Private Sub written by Chip Pearson, from his website.
Dim TimeStr As String

On Error GoTo EndMacro
'// Change Range() for the actual case
If Application.Intersect(Target, Range("A1:A10")) Is Nothing Then
Exit Sub
End If
'// Bail out if more than 1 cell is selected
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then
Exit Sub
End If
'// Bail if cell is empty
If Target.Value = "" Then
Exit Sub
End If

Application.EnableEvents = False
With Target
'// do not execute if formula in cell
If .HasFormula = False Then
Select Case Len(.Value)
Case 1 ' e.g., 1 = 00:01 AM
TimeStr = "00:0" & .Value
Case 2 ' e.g., 12 = 00:12 AM
TimeStr = "00:" & .Value
Case 3 ' e.g., 735 = 7:35 AM
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 1) & ":" & _
Right(.Value, 2)
Case 4 ' e.g., 1234 = 12:34
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 2) & ":" & _
Right(.Value, 2)
Case 5 ' e.g., 12345 = 1:23:45 NOT 12:03:45
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 1) & ":" & _
Mid(.Value, 2, 2) & ":" & Right(.Value, 2)
Case 6 ' e.g., 123456 = 12:34:56
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 2) & ":" & _
Mid(.Value, 3, 2) & ":" & Right(.Value, 2)
Case Else
Err.Raise 0
End Select
.Value = TimeValue(TimeStr)
' "hh:mm:ss")
End If
End With
Application.EnableEvents = True
Exit Sub

EndMacro:
' Any error leads us to this msg
MsgBox "You did not enter a valid time"
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub[/vba]
Thanks!

[Bob Phillips]

Activecell is what you want Ron.

Selection can refer to many cells, whereas ActiveCell will only refer to the one cell.

[RonMcK]

Bob (aka XLD),

Thanks for your help.

Here is my solution of Dave Lecki's time entry problem as a user-invokable macro.
[vba]Sub FormatTimeEntry()
'
' FormatTimeEntry Macro
' Macro recorded 9/26/2008 by Ron McKenzie
'
' Keyboard Shortcut: Option+Cmd+Shift+F
'
' Original solution from Chip Pearson (www.cpearson.com)
'
Dim TimeStr As String
On Error GoTo EndMacro
'// Change Range() for the actual case
'// Bail if cell is empty
If ActiveCell.Value = "" Then
Exit Sub
End If
Application.EnableEvents = False
With ActiveCell
'// do not execute if formula in cell
If .HasFormula = False Then
Select Case Len(.Value)
Case 1 ' e.g., 1 = 00:01 AM
TimeStr = "00:0" & .Value
Case 2 ' e.g., 12 = 00:12 AM
TimeStr = "00:" & .Value
Case 3 ' e.g., 735 = 7:35 AM
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 1) & ":" & _
Right(.Value, 2)
Case 4 ' e.g., 1234 = 12:34
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 2) & ":" & _
Right(.Value, 2)
Case 5 ' e.g., 12345 = 1:23:45 NOT 12:03:45
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 1) & ":" & _
Mid(.Value, 2, 2) & ":" & Right(.Value, 2)
Case 6 ' e.g., 123456 = 12:34:56
TimeStr = Left(.Value, 2) & ":" & _
Mid(.Value, 3, 2) & ":" & Right(.Value, 2)
Case Else
Err.Raise 0
End Select
.Value = TimeValue(TimeStr)
.NumberFormat = "h:mm:ss"
End If
End With
Application.EnableEvents = True
Exit Sub

EndMacro:
MsgBox "You did not enter a valid time"
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
[/vba]
Cheers,