VBA Includes empty cells in table formatting - vba

Question

Very new to VBA.
What I am trying to do:
1) Copy sheet from (source) workbook to active (master) workbook
2) Delete unnecessary columns of the copied data in the master workbook
3) Select cells with data in the master workbook and format as table (this is where I am stuck)
Sub first_sub()
'Open user Raw Data workbook
Workbooks.Open Filename:= _
"C:\Users\" & Environ("UserName") & "\Downloads\File.xls"
'Copy user Raw Data sheet to Data Master sheet
Workbooks("File.xls").Sheets("Records").Copy _
Before:=Workbooks("Macro Main.xlsm").Sheets(1)
'Close user Raw Data
Workbooks("File.xls").Close
End Sub
Sub Format()
Sheets("Records").Range("D:G,I:K,M:Y,AA:AA,AF:AM").EntireColumn.Clear
Sheets("Records").Range("D:G,I:K,M:Y,AA:AA,AF:AM").EntireColumn.Delete
End Sub
Sub MakeTable()
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Range(Range("A1"), Range("A1").SpecialCells(xlLastCell))
Set tbl = ActiveSheet.ListObjects.Add(xlSrcRange, rng, , xlYes)
tbl.TableStyle = "TableStyleMedium3"
End Sub
The problem is in point 3. For some reasons, VBA selects columns up to "AM", even though I deleted them in previous sub, and as a result - I have the table full of empty columns all the way up to AM. How to solve this? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Check how .SpecialCells(xlLastCell) works: Range.SpecialCells Method (Excel)
I think your range variable rng is referencing from range Range("A1") to the last used cell in the column range AM
Set rng = Range(Range("A1"), Range("A1").SpecialCells(xlLastCell))
Try adding this line after to check if the range is actually targeting your desired range:
rng.select
To solve this problem you can try:
Set rng = Range("A1").CurrentRegion
Or finding the last cell in column A...
Code:
Sub MakeTable()
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Range("A1").CurrentRegion
Set tbl = ActiveSheet.ListObjects.Add(xlSrcRange, rng, , xlYes)
tbl.TableStyle = "TableStyleMedium3"
End Sub