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Assigning a Macro to a Keyboard Combination
Hiding Rows Based on a Cell Value
If you are developing a simple custom application in Excel, you may want to use the InputBox function to retrieve information from the user, and then place that information in a particular place in a worksheet. This can be easily done in the following manner:
UserValue = InputBox("Value to use?")
Cells(1, 1).Value = UserValue
These two lines, when inserted into a macro, prompt the user for input. This input is assigned to the UserValue variable by the InputBox function. The contents of this variable are then deposited in cell A1 of the current worksheet using the Cells method. If you prefer, you could also use the Range object to specify a location for the value, as shown here:
UserValue = InputBox("Value to use?")
Range("B3").Value = UserValue
This example deposits the value of UserValue into cell B3.
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