Home/ Questions/Q 979017
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-16T04:09:09+00:00

Single line of code is causing my application to stop working – I think

  • 0

Single line of code is causing my application to stop working – I think that the problem is with the apostrophes (maybe wrong escape):

.Formula = "=IF(AND(" 'Criterion " & i & "'!" & cellAdress & ">=1;"'Criterion " & i & "'!" & cellAdress & "<=4);"'Criterion " & i & "'!" & cellAdress & ";0)"

When I try to enter the “‘ sequence VBA automatically puts a space between ” and ‘ making the latter appear as comment. What is wrong – do I need to use escape character here? If yes how to code it. I get an error 1004 Application of object-defined error.

Thank you

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    You escape double quotes in VBA by putting 2 double quotes, like so:

    ""

    You can also explicitly call Chr(34) to put in double quotes, like so:

    Debug.Print "The following is in double quotes: " & _
    chr(34) & "Inside double quotes" & chr(34)

    I wasn’t able to try out the following formula in Excel, but I think it should work:

    .Formula = "=IF(AND(""Criterion""" & i & "!" & cellAdress & _
  ">=1;""Criterion""" & i & "!" & cellAdress & "<=4);""Criterion""" & _
  i & "!" & cellAdress & ";0)"
    • 0