How to keep cell formatting while referencing other sheet cells?

Generally, the cell only keeps the cell value while referencing other cell, but in this article, I introduce a VBA code to keep the cell values and formatting while referencing another cell, and the cell values and formatting changes as the reference cell changes as below screenshot shown.

Keep cell formatting while referencing another cell with VBA

Keep cell formatting while referencing another cell with VBA

To handle this job, you just need to run below code.

1. Enable the workbook you use, press Alt + F11 key to enable Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window, and double click on the sheet name which you will place the reference cell in Project-VBAProject pane to show a blank script. In this case, I want to refer to cell A1 in the Sheet1. See screenshot:

2. Paste below code to the script, and in the VBA code, specify the cell references as you need.

VBA: Keep formatting and values while referencing another cell

Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
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    Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Or Target.Value = "" Then Exit Sub
    Application.EnableEvents = False
    If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A1")) Is Nothing Then              'Range("A1") the reference cell
        Target.Copy
        ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet2").Range("B1").PasteSpecial xlPasteAllUsingSourceTheme
                    'Range("B1")the cell linked to reference cell,ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet2")the sheet which contains linked cell
        Application.CutCopyMode = False
        Target.Select
    End If
    Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

Note: A1 is the reference cell, B1 in Sheet 2 is the cell you want to link to the reference cell and keep values and formatting with A1 in Shee1.

Then when you change the values or formatting in cell A1 in Sheet1, the cell B1 in Sheet2 will be changed while clicking at the reference cell twice.

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