{"id":87251,"date":"2024-05-09T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/excel-placeholder-text-code-r-vba-reddit\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:35:19","slug":"excel-placeholder-text-code-r-vba-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/excel-placeholder-text-code-r-vba-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"[EXCEL] Placeholder text code : r\/vba &#8211; Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think this exact feature is possible in Excel, even through VBA. You could instead use the Workbook_SheetSelectionChange event to have placeholder text appear when a cell is not selected and disappear when the cell is selected or not blank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/vba\/comments\/1cnftup\/excel_placeholder_text_code\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/vba\/comments\/1cnftup\/excel_placeholder_text_code\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think this exact feature is possible in Excel, even through VBA. You could instead use the Workbook_SheetSelectionChange event to have placeholder text&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}