VBA Blogs: If I use VBA Then I get better at it!

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This week, we’re going to cover the use of the IF statement in VBA. This is a very useful tool to help apply conditional rules in macros. For example, if you want a macro to run A if a cell is positive, and B if it is negative, you can use the IF statement to check the cell value, and choose what will happen in the true and false cases.

The basic command looks like this:

You can also use it to run only if the check is true, as long as what you are doing will fit on one line, such as:

In this instance, if X is false, nothing will happen.

Let’s look at a specific example. Suppose we want to check if the cell A1 contains a value. If it does, let’s clear the content of the cell. If not, we will copy the value from B1 into A1. We could do this as follows:

In this, the use of “<>” in the first line means “not equal to”; that is, that the value in cell A1 is not equal to a blank space.

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