How to run macro when cell value changes in Excel?
Normally, in Excel, we can press F5 key or Run button to execute the VBA code. But, have you ever tried to run the specific macro code when a cell value changes? This article, I will introduce some quick tricks to deal with this job in Excel.
Run or call macro when a specific cell value changes with VBA code
Run or call macro when any cell value changes in a range with VBA code
Run or call macro when a specific cell value changes with VBA code
To run a macro code by changing a cell value, the following VBA code can do you a favor, please do as this:
1. Right click the sheet tab that you want to execute the macro if cell value changes, and then choose View Code from the context menu, and in the opened Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window, copy and paste the following code into the blank Module:
VBA code: Run macro when cell value changes:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Address = "$A$1" Then
Call Mymacro
End If
End Sub
Note: In the above code, A1 is the specific cell that you want to run the code based on, Mymacro is the macro name which you want to run. Please change them to your need.
2. And then save and close the code window, now, when you enter or change value in cell A1, the specific code will be triggered at once.
Run or call macro when any cell value changes in a range with VBA code
If you want to run or trigger a macro when anyone cell value changes in a range of cell, the following code may help you.
1. Right click the sheet tab that you want to execute the macro if cell value changes, and then choose View Code from the context menu, and in the opened Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window, copy and paste the following code into the blank Module:
VBA code: Run macro when any cell value changes in a range:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1:B100")) Is Nothing Then
Call Mymacro
End If
End Sub
Note: In the above code, A1:B100 is the specific cells that you want to run the code based on, Mymacro is the macro name which you want to run. Please change them to your need.
2. And then save and close the code window, now, when you enter or change value in anyone cell of A1:B100, the specific code will be executed at once.
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