Adding text to a cell in Excel using VBA

Question

I've been working with SQL and Excel Macros, but I don't know how to add text to a cell.

I wish to add the text "01/01/13 00:00" to cell A1 . I can't just write it in the cell because the macro clears the contents of the sheet first and adds the information afterwards.

How do I do that in VBA?

Answer 1

Range("$A$1").Value = "'01/01/13 00:00" will do it.

Note the single quote; this will defeat automatic conversion to a number type. But is that what you really want? An alternative would be to format the cell to take a date-time value. Then drop the single quote from the string.

Answer 2

You could do

[A1].Value = "'O1/01/13 00:00"

if you really mean to add it as text (note the apostrophe as the first character).

The [A1].Value is VBA shorthand for Range("A1").Value .

If you want to enter a date, you could instead do (edited order with thanks to @SiddharthRout):

[A1].NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm;@"
[A1].Value = DateValue("01/01/2013 00:00")

Answer 3

You need to use Range and Valu e functions.
Range would be the cell where you want the text you want
Value would be the text that you want in that Cell

Range("A1").Value="whatever text"

Answer 4

You can also use the cell property.

Cells(1, 1).Value = "Hey, what's up?"

Make sure to use a . before Cells(1,1).Value as in .Cells(1,1).Value , if you are using it within With function. If you are selecting some sheet.