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About Tom Ogilvy
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Worked with the program for many years - provided assistance on MS Excel Newsgroups since 1997. Have received the Microsoft MVP award annually since 1999. I don't answer questions on using Excel in a browser Since I have no way to test this. Prefer not to answer charting questions. I consider myself to be particularly knowledgeable about using VBA internal to Excel but have no problems with formulas and pivot tables either.

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Have Used Excel for 15 - 20 years. Answered in excess of 70,000 Excel related questions in MS Excel newsgroups. Unless obvious, please specify whether you want a worksheet function or macro/VBA solution.

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BS General Engineering (concentration in Industrial Engineering) MS Operations Research Systems Analysis

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Excel - hiding a column until triggered by another column value or reference

Expert: Tom Ogilvy - 7/9/2009

Question
I would like to hide a column unless a value/trigger/word is "true" in another column. ie. column "R" hidden = true if column "G", rows 5:20 = blank?

I am unsure of correct writing for this macro?

Answer
Rob,

I think this is what you want.

sub HideR()
Dim r1 as Range, cell as Range
Dim bBlank as boolean
set r1 = Range("G5:G20")
bBlank = True
for each cell in r1
if not isempty(cell) then
bBlank = False
exit for
end if
Next
if bBlank then
Range("R:R").Entirecolumn.Hidden = True
else
Range("R:R").Entirecolumn.Hidden = False
end if
End Sub

You have to run this macro for it to do anything.
It should be placed in module1 or equivalent.

If I understood your question correctly, it worked for me.
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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

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