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    How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    Hello,

    I have searched for this and come up with nothing

    I have tried the simple code below to see if it will identify if a cell's comment is blank or not. Is the use of 'Not IsEmpty(...)' the correct approach?

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    You may test if the Comment is Nothing:
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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    An alternative I use is IF Trim(Len(Cells(1,1).Comment)) = 0

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    Quote Originally Posted by Izandol View Post
    You may test if the Comment is Nothing:
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    Thanks Izandol, however I would need to check first if the comment is Not Nothing. Is there a way to handle that?

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    Quote Originally Posted by JieJenn View Post
    An alternative I use is IF Trim(Len(Cells(1,1).Comment)) = 0
    Hi JieJenn, that may be a better approach. I will give it a try.

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    I gave the Trim(Len(... a try and I get a Run-time error '438'

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    Any ideas why?

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    Quote Originally Posted by tv69 View Post
    Thanks Izandol, however I would need to check first if the comment is Not Nothing. Is there a way to handle that?

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    The code I provided does exactly that. It is to tell you if there is a comment or not.

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    Quote Originally Posted by Izandol View Post
    The code I provided does exactly that. It is to tell you if there is a comment or not.
    Yes it does. However this is just a test to see what results are returned. What I'm really after is to check if a comment has a value and then...

    So how would you use 'Is Nothing' to look for a comment field that has something in it?

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    My apologies, I have asked the original question the wrong way. My real question is how to determine if a cells comment has a value in it?

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    Re: How to determine if a cell's comment is blank or empty?

    Izandol,

    The Len(Cells.... works like a charm.

    Thank you very much.

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