Only copy visible range in VBA? - vba

Question

I'm running into an issue where I'm unable to copy only visible cells to a new sheet. I'm able to get the lastrow, but I get #N/A on every cell except the first for each column. I want to just copy the visible cells. I'd also like to only put information on visible rows too, if possible?
Please see my code below:
Sub Importe()
lastRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).End(xlDown).Row
Worksheets.Add
With ActiveSheet
Range("A1:A" & lastRow).Value2 = _
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("H1:H" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Value
Range("B1:B" & lastRow).Value2 = _
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("E1:E" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Value
End With
End Sub

Answer 1

Something like .Value2 = .Value doesn't work on special cells of type visible, because …
… e.g. if lastRow = 50 and there are hiddenRows = 10 then …
your source Range("H1:H" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
has lastRow - hiddenRows = 40 rows
but your destination Range("A1:A" & lastRow).Value2
has lastRow = 50 rows.
On the first you subtract the visible rows, so they are different in size. Therefore .Value2 = .Value doesn't work, because you cannot fill 50 rows with only 40 source rows.
But what you can do is Copy and SpecialPaste
Option Explicit
Sub Importe()
Dim lastRow As Long
lastRow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).End(xlDown).Row
Worksheets.Add
With ActiveSheet
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("H1:H" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy
.Range("A1").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("E1:E" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy
.Range("B1").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
End With
End Sub
Nevertheless I recommend to avoid ActiveSheet or ActiveWorkbook if this is possible and reference a workbook eg by ThisWorkbook. My suggestion:
Option Explicit
Sub Importe()
Dim SourceWs As Worksheet
Set SourceWs = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
Dim DestinationWs As Worksheet
Set DestinationWs = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets.Add
Dim lastRow As Long
lastRow = SourceWs.Cells(1, 1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).End(xlDown).Row
SourceWs.Range("H1:H" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy
DestinationWs.Range("A1").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
SourceWs.Range("E1:E" & lastRow).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy
DestinationWs.Range("B1").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
End Sub

Answer 2

To define whether a cell is visible or not, both its column and row should be visible. This means, that the .Hidden property of the column and the row should be set to False.
Here is some sample code of how to copy only the visible ranges between two worksheets.
Imagine that you have an input like this in Worksheets(1):
Then you manually hide column B and you want to get in Worksheets(2) every cell from the Range(A1:C4), without the ones in column B. Like this:
To do this, you should check each cell in the range, whether its column or row is visible or not.
A possible solution is this one:
Sub TestMe()
Dim myCell As Range
For Each myCell In Worksheets(1).Range("A1:C4")
If (Not Rows(myCell.Row).Hidden) And (Not Columns(myCell.Column).Hidden) Then
Dim newCell As Range
Set newCell = Worksheets(2).Cells(myCell.Row, myCell.Column)
newCell.Value2 = myCell.Value2
End If
Next myCell
End Sub
Just a general advise - whenever you use something like this Range("A1").Value2 = Range("A1").Value2 make sure that both are the same and not the left is Value2 and the right is .Value. It probably will not bring what you are expecting.

Answer 3

You cannot perform a direct value transfer without cycling though the areas of the SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible) collection.
Sometimes it is easier to copy everything and get rid of what you don't want.
Sub Importe()
Dim lr As Long
Worksheets("Sheet1").Copy after:=Worksheets("Sheet1")
With ActiveSheet
.Name = "xyz"
.Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion = .Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Value2
For lr = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row To 1 Step -1
If .Cells(lr, "A").EntireRow.Hidden Then
.Cells(lr, "A").EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next lr
lr = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
.Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Resize(lr, 1) = .Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Resize(lr, 1).Offset(0, 7).Value2
.Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Offset(0, 1).Resize(lr, 1) = .Cells(1, 1).CurrentRegion.Resize(lr, 1).Offset(0, 4).Value2
.Columns("C:XFD").EntireColumn.Delete
End With
End Sub

Answer 4

just to throw in an alternative version:
Sub Importe()
Dim sht1Rng As Range, sht1VisibleRng As Range
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
Set sht1Rng = .Range("A1", .Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp))
End With
Set sht1VisibleRng = sht1Rng.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
With Worksheets.Add
.Range("A1").Resize(sht1Rng.Rows.Count).Value2 = sht1Rng.Offset(, 7).Value2
.Range("B1").Resize(sht1Rng.Rows.Count).Value2 = sht1Rng.Offset(, 4).Value2
.UsedRange.EntireRow.Hidden = True
.Range(sht1VisibleRng.Address(False, False)).EntireRow.Hidden = False
End With
End Sub
which may have the drawback of Address() maximum "capacity "