problem highlighting row

hello everyone...

I'm using the code below to color every row where "MAIN" and string
starting by "FFR0" coexist, but it doesn't work

is there anything wrong with this code ?

Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Intersect(Columns("A"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
If Left(cell.Value, 5) = "MAIN" And Left(cell.Offset(0, 3).Value, 14) =
"FFR0*" Then cell.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 3
Next cell

please take a look at the attached file.

thanks in advance for your help
regards...

Hi

"MAIN" is 4 characters long not 5 and "FFR0*" is 5 characters long not 14 - hnece your problem. Try amending to:

Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Intersect(Columns("A"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
If Left(cell.Value, 4) = "MAIN" And Left(cell.Offset(0, 3).Value, 4) =
"FFR0" Then cell.EntireRow.Interior.ColorIndex = 3
Next cell

I removed the * from the second comparison as I suspect you just want to know if the cell starts with FFR0?

Richard

You are modifying the text file in your subsequent code and when you run the avertMain routine before the modification code, none of your rows actually have MAIN in column A and FFR0 in column D. So, you just need to change the order the macros are called in in the tst sub:

  Call Module3.SuppLignes
  Call Module2.tableau
  Call Module2.avertMain

hey Richard,

it works just fine , thanks a lot ...

but when trying to test it on a text file it didn't work...

below two attached files txt file, and excel file with button "OpenText"

see plz