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    Making Rule work on Select Columns

    Hey I have this rule which highlights duplicates in a row in different colors so if you have a row that is

    1
    1
    1
    2
    2
    3
    1
    3

    All the one's will be blue 2's red and 1's white. Currently the rule below only works on column A. All my columns have headers, and I need it to instead of working on column A work on the columns with header names I choose.
    Anyone have any idea how this can be accomplished??

    Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    Dim Rng As Range, Dn As Range
    Dim K
    Dim col
    Dim c As Integer
    If Target.Column = 1 Then
    Set Rng = Range(Range("A1"), Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp))
    With CreateObject("scripting.dictionary")
    .CompareMode = vbTextCompare
    For Each Dn In Rng
    If Not .Exists(Dn.Value) Then
    .Add Dn.Value, Dn
    Else
    Set .Item(Dn.Value) = Union(.Item(Dn.Value), Dn)
    End If
    Next
    col = Array(3, 50, 6, 7, 8, 34, 35, 38, 39, 50, 45, 46)
    For Each K In .keys
    If .Item(K).Count > 1 Then
    c = IIf(c = 12, 0, c)
    .Item(K).Interior.ColorIndex = col(c)
    c = c + 1
    End If
    Next K
    End With
    End If
    End Sub

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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    Anyone have an idea?

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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    shba,

    Welcome to the forum! In the future, please wrap your code in code tags (see link in my sig for how).
    As for your question, you need to change the If Target.Column = 1 line. So if you wanted the code to monitor columns A, C and K (which are column numbers 1, 3, and 11) the line would look like this:
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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    shba,

    I received your PM which contained the following:
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    shba,

    Welcome to the forum! In the future, please wrap your code in code tags (see link in my sig for how).
    As for your question, you need to change the If Target.Column = 1 line. So if you wanted the code to monitor columns A, C and K (which are column numbers 1, 3, and 11) the line would look like this:
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    Hey thank you for the reply, but this isn't my question. I need this rule to work on many different files A, C and K won't always be the correct columns I need the rule to work on the column with the name IP but that column will sometimes be column A other times C and so forth.

    Thanks
    Yair

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    Alright, on to your question. So basically the Target.Column needs to be dynamic. You can accomplish this using the Range.Find method like so:
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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

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    Thank you, I think this is exactly what I needed, I'm having trouble combining them, adding the code instead of
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    I also tried replacing it with
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    but I get an error in this part of the code
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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    shba,

    Thank you for using code tags
    I think the full code would look like this:
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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    Thanks, It's kind of working, now it will work on column A and if the column header is IP. I've tried changing the Range, but I keep getting errors no matter how I change it , I need it to work on the entire document.

    Also If i want to add another name which will work just add something after the IP? so for example
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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    Anyone have an idea?

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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    shba,

    Updated code, should address both issues:
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    Re: Making Rule work on Select Columns

    Works great thank you very much for all your help.

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