Hi Amar, Correct. Noorain's code should work just as well if you eliminate all instances of "VBA." from it. Asa
-----Original Message----- From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kasireddy Amarender Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:55 PM To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ How to find special characters in a cell Hi Asa, Noorain I'm not sure if I understood your comments. Did you meant to say we need not use the key word "VBA" below? Thanks, Amar On 10/01/2012, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote: > Hello Noorain, et.al., > > > > No need for the the VBA qualifiers. You only need to specify the VBA > library name when you have another procedure with the same name in scope > that would otherwise be executed instead, which is probably better avoided > by not naming procedures with the names of builtins. This concept for > qualifying applies to all procedures/methods that are in execution scope. > > > > Asa > > > > From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com [mailto:excel-macros@googlegroups.com] > On Behalf Of NOORAIN ANSARI > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:04 AM > To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ How to find special characters in a cell > > > > Dear Amarender, > > > > Please try it.. > > > > Sub Special_Character() > If ActiveCell.Value = "" Then > Exit Sub > End If > For k = 1 To Len(ActiveCell.Value) > If VBA.IsNumeric(Mid(ActiveCell.Value, k, 1)) = False And > (VBA.Asc(Mid(VBA.UCase(ActiveCell.Value), k, 1)) < 65 And > VBA.Asc(Mid(VBA.UCase(ActiveCell.Value), k, 1) > 90)) Then > spcl_chtr = spcl_chtr & Mid(ActiveCell.Value, k, 1) > End If > Next k > If spcl_chtr <> "" Then > MsgBox "Special Character " & spcl_chtr, vbInformation > Else > Exit Sub > End If > End Sub > > > See attached sheet > > -- > > Thanks & regards, > > Noorain Ansari > > <http://excelmacroworld.blogspot.com/> http://excelmacroworld.blogspot.com/ > > <http://noorain-ansari.blogspot.com/> http://noorain-ansari.blogspot.com/ > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Kasireddy Amarender > <kassi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I would like to take your help in finding the special characters in a cell. > > Here is the output I'm looking for. > > B1 = XYZ_Apr'11 > > Then I should get a message box saying it has a special character ('). > > Similarly for all other special characters. > > Here the special characters position is not fixed hence I'm unable to > use the regular experssion. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Amar > > -- > FORUM RULES (986+ members already BANNED for violation) > > 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. 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