Volatile Method

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

Marks a user-defined function as volatile. A volatile function must be recalculated whenever calculation occurs in any cells on the worksheet. A nonvolatile function is recalculated only when the input variables change. This method has no effect if it's not inside a user-defined function used to calculate a worksheet cell.

expression.Volatile(Volatile)

expression    Required. An expression that returns an Application object.

Volatile    Optional Variant. True to mark the function as volatile. False to mark the function as nonvolatile. The default value is True

Example

This example marks the user-defined function "My_Func" as volatile. The function will be recalculated whenever calculation occurs in any cells on the worksheet on which this function appears.

Function My_Func()
    Application.Volatile
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End Function