Using a UDF in Excel to update the worksheet

Question

Not really a question, but posting this for comments because I don\'t recall seeing this approach before. I was responding to a comment on a previous answer, and tried some

Answer 1

Posting a response so I can mark my own "question" as having an answer.

I've seen other workarounds, but this seems simpler and I'm surprised it works at all.

Sub ChangeIt(c1 As Range, c2 As Range)
    c1.Value = c2.Value
    c1.Interior.Color = IIf(c1.Value > 10, vbRed, vbYellow)
End Sub


'########  run as a UDF, this actually changes the sheet ##############
' changing value in c2 updates c1...
Function SetIt(src, dest)

    dest.Parent.Evaluate "Changeit(" & dest.Address(False, False) & "," _
                        & src.Address(False, False) & ")"

    SetIt = "Changed sheet!" 'or whatever return value is useful...

End Function

Please post additional answers if you have interesting applications for this which you'd like to share.

Note: Untested in any kind of real "production" application.