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Odd refresh behavior after you specify a conditional format in Excel

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Symptoms

When you specify a conditional format that refers to a user-defined function in Microsoft Excel, you may experience the following symptoms:
  • The screen stops updating.
  • The screen redraws incorrectly.
  • The message box reappears continuously after clicking OK.
  • Selected cells blink.
  • Excel stops responding (hangs).

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Cause

This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:
  • You created a user-defined function that displays a message box.
  • You specified a conditional format that refers to the user-defined function you created.

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Workaround

To have your screen refresh correctly, save and close the workbook. If the screen does not update correctly after closing the workbook, follow these steps:
  1. Exit Excel.
  2. Open the workbook.
  3. Remove the conditional formatting that refers to the user-defined function.
  4. Save the workbook.
Note In some cases, this problem may be resolved when you remove the message box from the function.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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More information

For more information about how to get help with Visual Basic for Applications, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
226118 List of resources that are available to help you learn Visual Basic for Applications programming

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Keywords: KB213243, kbprogramming, kbprb, kbpending, kbfaq, kbenv, kbdtacode

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Article Info
Article ID : 213243
Revision : 5
Created on : 1/24/2007
Published on : 1/24/2007
Exists online : False
Views : 364