Make conditional formatting static

Question

Is there any way to convert conditional formatting to static formatting in Excel?

I'm trying to export a range of a Excel Sheet to a new Workbook, with identical appearance but no formulas, links, etc. The problem here is that I have conditional formatting that relies on calculations outside exported range.

I've tried saving the workbook to .html, oddly enough the formatting shows in IE but not when reopening it in Excel.

Answer 1

The following idea was taken from here, although modified to fit some new conditional formatting structures and your needs.

It works like this: Given a workbook with some conditional formatting (make a copy of yours), you put in Sub a() the range of cells you want to transform from conditional to straight formatting, and run the macro. After that, just delete manually the conditional formats, and presto!

Sorry about the code length ... life is sometimes like this :(

Option Explicit
Sub a()

Dim iconditionno As Integer
Dim rng, rgeCell As Range
Set rng = Range("A1:A10")

For Each rgeCell In rng

   If rgeCell.FormatConditions.Count <> 0 Then
       iconditionno = ConditionNo(rgeCell)
       If iconditionno <> 0 Then
           rgeCell.Interior.ColorIndex = rgeCell.FormatConditions(iconditionno).Interior.ColorIndex
           rgeCell.Font.ColorIndex = rgeCell.FormatConditions(iconditionno).Font.ColorIndex
       End If
   End If
Next rgeCell

End Sub
Private Function ConditionNo(ByVal rgeCell As Range) As Integer

Dim iconditionscount As Integer
Dim objFormatCondition As FormatCondition

    For iconditionscount = 1 To rgeCell.FormatConditions.Count
        Set objFormatCondition = rgeCell.FormatConditions(iconditionscount)
        Select Case objFormatCondition.Type
           Case xlCellValue
               Select Case objFormatCondition.Operator
                   Case xlBetween: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, ">=", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True And _
                                           Compare(rgeCell.Value, "<=", objFormatCondition.Formula2) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlNotBetween: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, "<=", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True And _
                                           Compare(rgeCell.Value, ">=", objFormatCondition.Formula2) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlGreater: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, ">", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlEqual: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, "=", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlGreaterEqual: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, ">=", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlLess: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, "<", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlLessEqual: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, "<=", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                   Case xlNotEqual: If Compare(rgeCell.Value, "<>", objFormatCondition.Formula1) = True Then _
                                           ConditionNo = iconditionscount

                  If ConditionNo > 0 Then Exit Function
              End Select

          Case xlExpression
            If Application.Evaluate(objFormatCondition.Formula1) Then
               ConditionNo = iconditionscount
               Exit Function
            End If
       End Select

    Next iconditionscount
End Function

Private Function Compare(ByVal vValue1 As Variant, _
                         ByVal sOperator As String, _
                         ByVal vValue2 As Variant) As Boolean

   If Left(CStr(vValue1), 1) = "=" Then vValue1 = Application.Evaluate(vValue1)
   If Left(CStr(vValue2), 1) = "=" Then vValue2 = Application.Evaluate(vValue2)

   If IsNumeric(vValue1) = True Then vValue1 = CDbl(vValue1)
   If IsNumeric(vValue2) = True Then vValue2 = CDbl(vValue2)

   Select Case sOperator
      Case "=": Compare = (vValue1 = vValue2)
      Case "<": Compare = (vValue1 < vValue2)
      Case "<=": Compare = (vValue1 <= vValue2)
      Case ">": Compare = (vValue1 > vValue2)
      Case ">=": Compare = (vValue1 >= vValue2)
      Case "<>": Compare = (vValue1 <> vValue2)
   End Select
End Function