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Decision-making process is an important part of Excel 2010 VBA programming because it can help to solve problems that require the fulfillment of certain conditions.
In Excel 2010 VBA, decision making involves the use of the If…then…Else syntax to process data and display the output based on the fulfillment of certain conditions. To effectively control the VB program flow, we need to use If…Then…Else statement together with the conditional operators and logical operators.
These operators are shown in Table 10.1 and Table 10.2 respectively.
Table 10.1: Conditional Operators
Table 10.2: Logical Operators
We shall demonstrate the usage of If….Then…Else with the following example.In this program, we place the command button1 on the MS Excel spreadsheet and go into the Excel 2010 VBA editor by clicking on the button. In the editor, enter the program code as shown below.
We use the RND function to generate random numbers. In order to generate random integers between 0 and 100, we combined the syntax Int(Rnd*100). For example, when Rnd=0.6543, then Rnd*100=65.43, and Int(65.43)=65. Using the statement cells(1,1).Value=mark will place the value of 65 into cell(1,1).
Now, based on the mark in cells(1,1), we use the If…….Then….Elseif statements to put the corresponding grade in cells(2,1). So, when you click on command button 1, it will insert a random number between 1 and 100 in cells(1,1) and the corresponding grade in cells(2,1).
The Code
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() Dim mark As Integer Dim grade As String mark = Int(Rnd * 100) Cells(1, 1).Value = mark If mark < 20 And mark >= 0 Then grade = “F” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark < 30 And mark >= 20 Then grade = “E” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark < 40 And mark >= 30 Then grade = “D” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark < 50 And mark >= 40 Then grade = “C-” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark < 60 And mark >= 50 Then grade = “C” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark < 70 And mark >= 60 Then grade = “C+” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark < 80 And mark >= 70 Then grade = “B” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade ElseIf mark <= 100 And mark >=80 Then grade = “A” Cells(2, 1).Value = grade End If End Sub
The output is shown in Figure 10.1
