Question

In my Main procedure I want to write a quick if-statement which checks whether the user has made a valid input (user chooses number of project from list of data, see attached screenshot). For that I am checking whether the project number is not part of the list of projects. If that is true, an error message is displayed; if not then a number of other procedures are called.

For some reason though I get error 2015 when I run it, which means that the if-statement is always true, even on correct user entries. Can someone help me understand the error please?

• The project number input is a named cell called “IdSelect” and is on a sheet called “Invoice”
• The data against which this input is checked is on a sheet called “Input”
• The data is stored in column B and called “ProjectList”

Code below (note: I have tried pasting it 5 times but the formatting still won’t work this time for some reason – any idea what that could be? The code is properly formatted. Sorry for the messy display; if anyone can tell me what that problem might I would be very grateful!)

Sub Main()
    'Turn off screen updating
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    'Define variable for currently active cell to reactivate it afterwards
    Dim OldActiveSheet As Object
    Dim OldActiveCell As Object
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim ProjectList As Range
    Set OldActiveSheet = ActiveSheet
    Set OldActiveCell = ActiveCell
    'If-statement to check whether project number is valid or not
    Worksheets("Invoice").Activate
    'Print to Immediate Window to check value - remove later
    Debug.Print Range("IdSelect").Value
    If IsError(Application.Match(Range("IdSelect").Value, "ProjectList", 0)) Then
        'Print to Immediate Window to check value - remove later
        Debug.Print Application.Match(Range("IdSelect").Value, Worksheets("Input").Range("ProjectList"), 0)
        MsgBox "Invalid Choice: Project with this number does not exist!"
        Exit Sub
    Else
        'Call procedures to execute
        Call SortData
        Call Count_Line_Items
        Call Count_Total_Rows
        Call Write_Services(ServCnt)
        Call Write_Expenses(ExpCnt)
    End If
    'Reactivate previous active cell
    OldActiveSheet.Activate
    OldActiveCell.Activate
End Sub

Screenshot from “Input” sheet:

Answer 1

The way you refer to range is rather odd.. because you missed out range reference. Oddly enoughbthat you do it correct on the next line at
Debug.Print Application.Match(Range("IdSelect").Value, Worksheets("Input").Range("ProjectList"), 0)

So try this please: (it take me 100 years to format my own post on mobile…..). Make sure to use explicit reference as shown in my sample code below. Set your sheets accordingly.

Dim ws as Worksheet
Set ws = Sheets(1)

 IsError(Application.Match(ws.Range("IdSelect").Value, ws.Range("ProjectList"), 0)) Then 

And here is for you to read on for error handling on on match.