So I created a copy and paste function. I had help previously with an error I encountered. However, I am now wanting to make the values copy and pasted to be updated when the original date is changed. So, my original thought was to paste something like =(ws.Cells(i, j). And have a nested for loop to with the values i staying the same as below and j going in between 6 and 16. But I couldn't get that to work.
If there is a special paste function or something that I am unaware of that would be great. Is there a way to get copy and paste data but also have it still be reliant on the original (updates when the original is changed).
If there is another question with a solution to this problem then I didn't see it and I am sorry.
I have my code below. And any help would be appreciated.
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim rng As Range
Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = Worksheets("Goals")
a = Worksheets("Goals").Cells(Rows.Count, 7).End(xlUp).Row
For i = 2 To a
If Worksheets("Goals").Cells(i, 20).Value = "Red" Then
ws.Activate
Set rng = ws.Range(ws.Cells(i, 6), ws.Cells(i, 16)) 'columns to be copied
rng.Copy
Worksheets("Scorecard").Activate
b = Worksheets("Scorecard").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
Worksheets("Scorecard").Cells(b + 1, 2).Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Worksheets("Goals").Activate
End If
Next
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Worksheets("Forms").Activate
Worksheets("Forms").Cells(22, 10).Select 'going back to the Forms page
End Sub
Try this
Worksheets("Goals").Range("I6:I16").Copy
Worksheets("Scorecard").Paste Link:=True
I hope you wont mind if the sheets switch in this process..
Thanks
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I have created a loop where data is copied from a worksheet and pasted into another, however I am having problems with the paste function – sometimes the wrong data gets pasted, seemingly randomly. My current code is:
Sub ACCPR_LOOP()
Dim wsACC_PR As Worksheet
Set wsACC_PR = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("ACC PR")
Dim wsPR_CALC As Worksheet
Set wsPR_CALC = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("PR - CALC")
Dim MyRange As Range
Dim MyCell As Range
Set MyRange = Range("A2:A145")
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Columns("B:C").ClearContents
For Each MyCell In MyRange
MyCell.Copy
wsPR_CALC.Range("A1").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
Application.CutCopyMode = False
wsPR_CALC.Range("B226,B228").Copy
MyCell.Offset(0, 1).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValuesAndNumberFormats, Transpose:=True
Next MyCell
End Sub
What the code is doing is in Col A are a bunch of dates, it copies the date in A, then pastes it into another worksheet to update a drop-down date selector and change the data. Two of the cells are then copied and pasted back into the original worksheet with an offset of 1 column. For some reason sometimes, the data from the previous date in A is pasted. For example, the date in A17 is copied and pasted into the date selector, the correct data is then pasted into B17, but on the next step, the data relating to A17 is pasted into the next row down at B18.
If a repeat the line:
MyCell.Offset(0, 1).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValuesAndNumberFormats, Transpose:=True
the code works but this seems rather inefficient. Any ideas what’s going on in my code and how I can fix it?
In the Set MyRange = Range("A2:A145") you should declare the corresponding worksheet as well. E.g.:
Set MyRange = Worksheets("MyNameIsWhat").Range("A2:A145")
Otherwise, it would take the ActiveWorksheet and the MyRange would be assigned to it.
The same goes to Columns("B:C").ClearContents.
It should be Worksheets("TsakaTsakaSlimShaddy").Columns("B:C").ClearConents
I always try to avoid the copy/paste function in VBA. It's processor intensive and functions ... arcanely.
Try this instead:
For Each MyCell In MyRange
wsPR_CALC.Range("A1").Value = MyCell.Value
Application.Calculate
MyCell.Offset(0, 1).Value = wsPR_CALC.Range("B226,B228").Value
Next MyCell
You'll lose the number formatting, but there are other ways of doing that.
I also added an Application.Calculate line, because it looks like you're copying from a formula in the second step, and it's good to make sure that value gets updated. You can also try Application.CalculateFull if plain .Calculate isn't cutting it.
Also, to echo Vit, if you're working with multiple sheets, declaring your sheet as often as possible will help as well.
I want to make J3:N3 = T2:X2, then I want to copy the cells formulas of T2:X2 and paste, jump one and paste and so on. The code runs fine, but does not apply my formulas in any of the cells. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
WsScenarios.Activate
Application.CutCopyMode = False
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=R[1]C[-10]"
Range("T2").Select
Selection.AutoFill Destination:=Range("T2:X2"), Type:=xlFillDefault
Set RgnCopy = Range("T2:X2")
i = 4
Do While i <= LastRow
RgnCopy.Copy
Range(Cells(i, 20), Cells(i, 24)).PasteSpecial xlPasteFormulas
i = i + 2
Loop
Recording a macro using the Excel UI could be useful sometimes, but what matters more is to write the code in a way to get done what you want in a better way. Also you have to think about maintaning or developing the code more in future so I suggest to remove every element that is an indication of using the UI such as activating sheets, or getting inputs from the user through activecell, Select method etc.
As mentioned in one of the previous comments using Range("T2").FormulaR1C1 = "=R[1]C[-10]" would solve your problem, but if you consider two ranges as the origin and destination, then you can always do the job a lot faster and better with the least hassle to parametrise the code in a later time:
Sub CopyIt()
Dim rngOrigin As Range
Dim rngDestination As Range
Dim WS As Worksheet
Set WS = ActiveSheet
Set rngOrigin = WS.Range("T2:X2")
Set rngDestination = WS.Range("J3:N3")
rngDestination.NumberFormat = "General"
rngOrigin.Copy
rngDestination.PasteSpecial xlPasteFormulas
End Sub
I am not a Dev, but given I do use Excel, I have been tasked to create a looping macro that will check for a string ('Resource') in a cell and if it finds that string, then run a Copy and Paste code and then move to the next row. This starts at row 5 and runs continuously until row 199, but does not work on every row, hence the validation for the string Resource.
I have managed to create the macro for the Copy and Paste but it also has issues as I created it using the macro recorder and it only works on the row I actually did the recording on.
I am at a complete loss, can anyone help?
this is what I have so far
A New Resource name is added manually to the spreadsheet
the user clicks cell (C6) to focus the curser
the user clicks a macro button called 'Forecast for Future Project 1' to start the macro
On the button click the Macro will:
Interogate if cell to the left of current cell (B6) = 'Resource'
IF Yes, THEN
Sub CP()
DO
Range("C6").Select
Selection.Copy
Application.Goto Reference:="ProjAdd"
ActiveSheet.Paste
Application.CutCopyMode = False
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _
"=SUMIF('Current Project Utilisation'!R2C1:R62C1,RC1,'Current Project Utilisation'!R2C:R62C)+SUMIF('Future Project 1'!R2C1:R62C1,RC1,'Future Project 1'!R2C:R62C)"
Range("ProjAdd").Select
Selection.Copy
Range("C6").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Selection.Copy
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlToRight)).Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Range("B6").Select
Loop Until ActiveCell.Address(0,0) = "$B$199"
End Sub
Move to cell under original active cell (C7) and Repeat the Macro until cell C199 is reached
If (B6) does not = 'Resource' then move to go to the cell under (C7) aand Repeat the Macro until cell C199 is reached
Refresh Worksheet to update data
Would something like this work for you?
Sub CopyPasteResource()
Dim CopyRange As Range
Dim Cell As Range
Set CopyRange = Workbooks("YourWorkBookName").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C6:C199")
For Each Cell In CopyRange
If InStr(1, Cell.Offset(0, -1).Text, "Resource") Then
Cell.Copy
'paste where you wish
End If
Next Cell
End Sub
EDIT: Or do you want to loop through B6:B199 and then C6:199? I'm not entirely clear on the aim.
Ah the old macro recorder, generating 90% extra code since 1997. I couldn't exactly figure out from your question what exactly is being copied and to where but this code will loop through rows 5 to 199, check if the value in column B = "Resource" and then set the corresponding value in column C, you should be able to modify for your needs but I think you definitely want a structure more like this than what the recorder generated for you..
public sub cp()
Dim ws as Worksheet
Set ws = Worksheets("Current Project Utilisation")
Dim i as int
for iI = 5 to 199
if(ws.cells(i, 2).value = "Resource") then
ws.cells(i, 3).value = "what you're copying"
end if
next I
end sub
Assuming your cell range doesn't change you can do this for the looping part
Sub ResourceCheck()
Dim WS As Worksheet
Set WS = ActiveSheet
Dim Resources() As Long, r As Long
ReDim Resources(5 To 199)
For r = 5 To 199
If UCase(WS.Cells(r, 2).Value) = "RESOURCE" Then
WS.Cells(r, 3).Value = "x"
'Do copy paste part
End If
Next r
Application.Calculate
End Sub
Can you add a sample of your data? It's a bit hard to see what you're referencing to and how the data relates to each other.
Also, where is the "Projadd" cell reference? And what does it do?
Sub CP()
' I like to know what worksheet I'm on
Dim ws as Worksheet
' if it's a dedicated worksheet use this
' Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
' Otherwise following your current code
Set ws = ActiveSheet
' I also like to grab all my data at once
Dim Data as Variant
Data = ws.Range("B6:B199")
' No need to focus the cursor
For row = 5 to 199
' No need to select any range
' Is this case-sensitive???
If Data(row-4, 1) = "Resource" Then
' Copy C6??? Paste 'ProjAdd'
ws.Cells(row, 3).Copy Range("ProjAdd")
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End If
Next
End Sub
I've looked around the forum and played with various options but not found a clear match for my problem:
My task is to copy data from a worksheet (called “workorders”) to a second worksheet (called “Assignments”). The data to be copied is from the “workorders” worksheet starting at cell range “E2, P2:S2”; and also copied from each row (same range) until column “P” is empty – (the number of rows to be copied can vary each time we need to run this macro so we can’t select a standard range) . Then pasted into the “Assignments” worksheet, starting at cell “A4”. I’ve used the forum so far to successfully copy a single row of date (from row 2) – I admit that’s the easy part, and I’ve used various versions of code to achieve this.
I’ve also tried some code (which I found via watching a youtube clip and modifying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyNWL0DXXtQ )to allow me to run a loop which repeats the copy process for each required row in the “workorders” worksheet and then pastes the data into the “assignments” worksheet- but this is where I am not getting it right, I think I’m along the right lines and think I’m not far off but any help would be very useful.
Code examples below (first 2 only copy first row, 3rd example is where I’ve tried to loop and copy multiple rows:
Sub CopyTest1()
' CopyTest1 Macro
'copy data from workorders sheet
'Worksheets("workorders").Range("E2,P2,Q2,R2,S2").Copy
Worksheets("workorders").Range("E2, P2:S2").Copy
'paste data to assignments sheet
'sheets("assigments dc").Range("A4").Paste
Sheets("Assigments DC").Select
Range("A4").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End Sub
Sub CopyTest2()
Sheets("workorders").Range("e2,p2,q2,r2,s2").Copy Sheets("assigments dc").Range("a4")
End Sub
Sub CopyTest3()
Dim xrow As Long
'Dim xrow As String
xrow = 2
Worksheets("workorders").Select
Dim lastrow As Long
lastrow = Cells(Rows.Count, 16).End(xlUp).Row
Do Until xrow = lastrow + 1
ActiveSheet.Cells(xrow, 16).Select
If ActiveCell.Text = Not Null Then
'Range("E2,P2,Q2,R2,S2").Copy
'Selection = Range("E2,P2,Q2,R2,S2").Copy
'Cells(xrow, 5).Copy
Cells(xrow, 5).Copy
Sheets("Assigments DC").Select
Range("A4").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Sheets("workorders").Select
End If
xrow = xrow + 1
Loop
End Sub
Try this:
Sub LoopCopy()
Dim shWO As Worksheet, shAss As Worksheet
Dim WOLastRow As Long, Iter As Long
Dim RngToCopy As Range, RngToPaste As Range
With ThisWorkbook
Set shWO = .Sheets("Workorders") 'Modify as necessary.
Set shAss = .Sheets("Assignments") 'Modify as necessary.
End With
'Get the row index of the last populated row in column P.
'Change accordingly if you want to use another column as basis.
'Two versions of getting the last row are provided.
WOLastRow = shWO.Range("P2").End(xlDown).Row
'WOLastRow = shWO.Range("P" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
For Iter = 2 to WOLastRow
Set RngToPaste = shAss.Range("A" & (Iter + 2))
With shWO
Set RngToCopy = Union(.Range("E" & Iter), .Range("P" & Iter & ":S" & Iter))
RngToCopy.Copy RngToPaste
End With
Next Iter
End Sub
Read the comments first and test.
Let us know if this helps.
From what I see, you are only copying the cell in Column E. You could correct this by replacing Cells(xrow, 5).Copy with
Union(Sheets("workorders").Cells(xrow,5),Sheets("workorders").Range(Cells(xrow,"P"),Cells(xrow,"S")).Copy
However, using Select and Copy are not ideal. Instead, you can assign the value of the range directly:
Sheets("Assignments DC").Range("A4").Value = Union(Sheets("workorders").Cells(xrow,5),Sheets("workorders").Range(Cells(xrow,"P"),Cells(xrow,"S")).Value
More info on the Union method and why using Select is bad.
Is it even possible to run a line like this?
Worksheets("workorders").Range("E2, P2:S2").Copy
Each time I try different ways to copy/select a range which contains in my case, A3 and the range A34:C40 ("A3, A34:C40").Copy i get an error saying theres to many parameters.. Could this be because I'm running excel 2007?
Any tips or help would be greatly apreciated! :)
I do not have much experience with writing macros, and therefore need the help of this community for the following issue encountered:
My macro copies a range of values entered in a vertical range in one worksheet and then pastes the values horizontally (transpose) in another worksheet. It would in theory paste the values from the first sheet to first row of the second worksheet which does not have content. Since the first five rows have contents, it thus pastes the values to the sixth row.
The problem I have with the running of the macro is that I feel like it is too slow and I would therefore like it to run faster.
I have the same macro doing the same thing but that instead pastes the values to another worksheet to the first row, and it runs perfect.
My best guess is therefore that the second macro is running slow because it has to start pasting on the sixth row and there may be some contents on the first 5 rows that take a lot of time for the macro to go through (there a lot of cell references to other workbooks) to determine where the next row for pasting should be. That is my best guess though and since I hardly know anything about macros, I cannot say for sure what the problem is.
I hereby provide you with the code of my macro and sincerely hope that somebody can tell me what is making my macro slow and provide me with a solution as to how to make it run faster. I am thinking that a solution might potentially be that the macro should not consider the first five rows of data and start pasting immediately on row 6 for the first entry. Then on row 7 the next time, and etc. This might be a solution but I do not know how to write the code in a way that it would do that.
Thank you for taking time and helping me to find a solution, here is the code:
Sub Macro1()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim historyWks As Worksheet
Dim inputWks As Worksheet
Dim nextRow As Long
Dim oCol As Long
Dim myCopy As Range
Dim myTest As Range
Dim lRsp As Long
Set inputWks = wksPartsDataEntry
Set historyWks = Sheet11
'cells to copy from Input sheet - some contain formulas
Set myCopy = inputWks.Range("OrderEntry2")
With historyWks
nextRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
End With
With inputWks
Set myTest = myCopy.Offset(0, 2)
If Application.Count(myTest) > 0 Then
MsgBox "Please fill in all the cells!"
Exit Sub
End If
End With
With historyWks
With .Cells(nextRow, "A")
.Value = Now
.NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
End With
.Cells(nextRow, "B").Value = Application.UserName
oCol = 3
myCopy.Copy
.Cells(nextRow, 3).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Transpose:=True
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End With
'clear input cells that contain constants
With inputWks
On Error Resume Next
With myCopy.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
.ClearContents
Application.GoTo .Cells(1) ', Scroll:=True
End With
On Error GoTo 0
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Just reiterating what has already been said:
Option Explicit
Sub Macro1()
'turn off as much background processes as possible
With Excel.Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
.Calculation = Excel.xlCalculationManual
.EnableEvents = False
End With
Dim historyWks As Excel.Worksheet
Dim inputWks As Excel.Worksheet
Dim nextRow As Long
Dim oCol As Long
Dim myCopy As Excel.Range
Dim myTest As Excel.Range
Dim lRsp As Long
Set inputWks = wksPartsDataEntry
Set historyWks = Sheet11
'cells to copy from Input sheet - some contain formulas
Set myCopy = inputWks.Range("OrderEntry2")
With historyWks
nextRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).End(Excel.xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
End With
With inputWks
Set myTest = myCopy.Offset(0, 2)
If Excel.Application.Count(myTest) > 0 Then
MsgBox "Please fill in all the cells!"
GoTo QuickExit
End If
End With
With historyWks
With .Cells(nextRow, 1)
.Value = Now
.NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
End With
.Cells(nextRow, 2).Value = Excel.Application.UserName
oCol = 3
myCopy.Copy
.Cells(nextRow, 3).PasteSpecial Paste:=Excel.xlPasteValues, Transpose:=True
Excel.Application.CutCopyMode = False
End With
'clear input cells that contain constants
With inputWks
On Error Resume Next
With myCopy.Cells.SpecialCells(Excel.xlCellTypeConstants)
.ClearContents
Excel.Application.Goto .Cells(1) ', Scroll:=True
End With
On Error GoTo 0
End With
Calculate
QuickExit
With Excel.Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.Calculation = Excel.xlAutomatic
.EnableEvents = True
End With
End Sub
I'd step through the macro line-by-line to try to locate which line is slow.
Another alternative - although not sure if it'll speed things up - is to avoid the clipboard and lose the copy/paste so you'd apply a method like the following to move the data:
Option Explicit
Sub WithoutPastespecial()
'WORKING EXAMPLE
Dim firstRange As Range
Dim secondRange As Range
Set firstRange = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Cut Sheet").Range("S4:S2000")
With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Cutsheets")
Set secondRange = .Range("A" & .Rows.Count).End(Excel.xlUp).Offset(1)
End With
With firstRange
Set secondRange = secondRange.Resize(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count)
End With
secondRange.Value = firstRange.Value
End Sub
Best way to improve performance based on my experience is to work on variables in code rather than accessing the spreadsheet every time you want to lookup a value.
Save any range you want to work with in a variable(variant) and then iterate through it as if it was the sheet.
dim maxRows as double
dim maxCols as integer.
dim data as variant
with someSheet
maxRows = .Cells(rows.count, 1).end(xlUp).row 'Max rows in sheet
maxCols = .Cells(1, columns.count).end(xlToLeft).column 'max columns in sheet
data = .Range(.Cells(1,1), .Cells(maxRows, maxCols)) 'copy range in a variable
end with
From here you can access the data variable as if it was the spreadsheet like - data(row, column) with MUCH MUCH faster read speed.
Please take a look at this article as well.
How to speed up calculation and improve performance...
By all means, Application.calculation= xlCalculationManual is usually the culprit. But we can notice that volatile Excel sheet functions can mostly kill your application on large scale of data processing and functional aspect.
Also, for your current code following post might not be directly relevant. I find it useful for tips on over-all Excel/VBA performance optimization.
75 Excel speeding up tips
PS: I don't have enough reputation to comment on your post. So added as an answer..
Just a few suggestions (would have posted as a comment but I guess I don't have the rep):
Try refering to cell addresses instead of named ranges (doubt this would be the cause but may be causing some hit to performance)
Do your workbook formulas contain links to other workbooks? Try testing the code on a file with broken links to see if it improves performance.
If neither of these are the issue, my guess is that if the formulas are overly complex, there is probably some processing overhead being added. Try the code on a file containing only values to see if there is any improved performance.
As suggested by a few others in the comments, you should definitely change Application.Calculation to xlCalculationManual and rememeber to set it back to xlcalculationAutomatic at the end. Also try setting Application.Screenupdating = False (and turning that back on again too). Also, bear in mind that .Copy is a very inefficient way to copy cell values - if you really just want the values, loop through the range setting .Value to the .Values in the old range. If you need all the formatting, you're probably stuck with .Copy.
When you turn off the calc/screen refresh flags, please remember to turn them back on in all circumstances (even when your program exits at a different point, or causes a runtime error). Otherwise all sorts of bad things will happen. :)
You can improve the speed by stopping calculation during changing cell value and after that you can enable it. please follow the link.
http://webtech-training.blogspot.in/2013/10/how-to-stop-heavy-formula-calculation.html
.Cells(nextRow, 3).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Transpose:=True
Application.CutCopyMode = False
I wouldn't do that. Cut,copy & Paste operations are the costliest operations, in terms of processor utilization, in an operating system.
Instead, you could just assign the value from one cell / range to an another cell / range, as in
Cells(1,1) = Cells(1,2) or Range("A1") = Range("B1")
Hope you got my point..