tab order (Excel 2003)

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I have a spreadsheet that is essentially a calendar- Jan to June on the left and July to December on the right. I have protected it so that I can only tab to the cells that I want. I have one minor problem. Normally I tab from B1 to H1 (Monday to Sunday). I want to tab from H1 to B2 not to K1 which is in July. How do I change the end of week tab order? I have been unsuccessful in looking this up.

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Fred

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If you don’t mind not ever being able to select a cell in column I, then you could use the code below in the worksheet selection change event routine:

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Not Intersect(Target, Range("I:I")) Is Nothing Then
        Application.EnableEvents = False
        Range("A" & Target.Row + 1).Select
        Application.EnableEvents = True
    End If
End Sub

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I think what you are telling me is that there is not the simple solution that I had hoped for. Right now your solution is beyond my knowledge to implement. This is not earth shattering. I will live with things as they are now.

Thank you for your effort. I hope that in a relatively short time my knowledge will catch up with your solution.

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Legare’s solution is surprisingly simple to implement; right click the worksheet tab, select View Code, and paste the code in there, then save the workbook. Give it a try!

Is it correct that your layout is Sun – Sat for the Jan – June in Columns B:H and then Sun – Sat for July – Dec is in Columns J:P? A similar solution to Legares’ would be to protect all cells except in those columns, protect the sheet, and then use code like this, entered the same way:

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
If ActiveCell.Column = 9 Or ActiveCell.Column = 17 Then _
ActiveCell.Offset(1, -7).Activate
End Sub

But you’d have to Click into a day in the second set of months to get into those July – December columns.

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Legare’s solution is surprisingly simple to implement; right click the worksheet tab, select View Code, and paste the code in there, then save the workbook. Give it a try!

Is it correct that your layout is Sun – Sat for the Jan – June in Columns B:H and then Sun – Sat for July – Dec is in Columns J:P? A similar solution to Legares’ would be to protect all cells except in those columns, protect the sheet, and then use code like this, entered the same way:

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
If ActiveCell.Column = 9 Or ActiveCell.Column = 17 Then _
ActiveCell.Offset(1, -7).Activate
End Sub

But you’d have to Click into a day in the second set of months to get into those July – December columns.

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I think what you are telling me is that there is not the simple solution that I had hoped for. Right now your solution is beyond my knowledge to implement. This is not earth shattering. I will live with things as they are now.

Thank you for your effort. I hope that in a relatively short time my knowledge will catch up with your solution.

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If you don’t mind not ever being able to select a cell in column I, then you could use the code below in the worksheet selection change event routine:

Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
    If Not Intersect(Target, Range("I:I")) Is Nothing Then
        Application.EnableEvents = False
        Range("A" & Target.Row + 1).Select
        Application.EnableEvents = True
    End If
End Sub

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