Article ID: 213473 - Last Review: November 23, 2006 - Revision: 3.5

XL2000: A Visual Basic Nested Case Statement Example

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SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel 2000, you can use nested case statements in Visual Basic to execute one of several expressions based on a particular value or expression evaluation similar to an IF statement.

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The following example returns a text expression in the next column, depending upon whether a particular date falls within a specific beginning and ending date range. The active cell in the worksheet should be the upper-left cell containing the dates.

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Macro Example

Sub TestDate()
'The following nested case statement determines if a date within
'a column of dates falls within a certain range. If the beginning date
'or the ending date is within or out of the range, it displays a message
'in the next column.
  begin_date = DateValue(InputBox(prompt:="Enter the beginning date"))
  end_date = DateValue(InputBox(prompt:="Enter the ending date"))
  Do While ActiveCell <> ""
    'Checks the date of the current cell.
    Select Case ActiveCell
       Case Is >= begin_date
        'Nested Case to check for ending date of current cell.
        Select Case ActiveCell
            Case Is <= end_date
            ActiveCell.Offset(0, 2) = "Meets criteria"
            'Does this if the ending date is out of range.
            Case Is >= end_date
            ActiveCell.Offset(0, 2) = "Ending date out of range"
            End Select
    'Does this if the beginning date is out of range.
    Case Else
        ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1) = "Beginning date is out of range"
    End Select
    'Selects the next cell on the active worksheet.
    ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
    Loop
End Sub

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