I created a macro which finds all matched values of a cell in a range. The user enter for example numb in the cell A2 Then every time he clicks on Find button it will show him the matched cell for example Order Number then purchase number then part number ...
Here is my code
Sub find_matched_cells()
w = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A2")
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A4:A104").Find(What:=(w), After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False).Activate
End Sub
It works fine but when the user for example press on a cell not in my range then on the button find will not work. The issue is in
After:=ActiveCell
For example if by mistake you selected a cell in a range not in A4:A104 then the ActiveCell will not be in my range and it will give an error.
I need to add condition for example the first ActiveCell Starts from A4 and if I find the first matched cell then ActiveCell will take that value.
Any other suggestions please? Thank you very much.
One approach is this...
Sub find_matched_cells()
Dim Rng As Range
Set Rng = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A4:A104")
w = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A2")
If Intersect(ActiveCell, Rng) Is Nothing Then Range("A4").Select
Rng.Find(What:=(w), After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False).Activate
End Sub
You could check the intersection. I would re-write the code slightly depending on what you need to actually do to each of these found cells - is it just select them? I have amended code below to avoid error if the value is not found.
Sub x()
Dim rFind As Range, sAddr As String, w
w = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A2")
With ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet4").Range("A4:A104")
Set rFind = .Find(What:=w, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:=xlPart, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)
If Not rFind Is Nothing Then
sAddr = rFind.Address
Do
rFind.Select
MsgBox w & " found at " & rFind.Address
Set rFind = .FindNext(rFind)
Loop While rFind.Address <> sAddr
End If
End With
End Sub
Related
I am using Find method to bring the cell value from another workbook.
The code below brings the value. But I wanted to erase Activate methods, so just using Block Statements with Find method to bring values from another workbook.
'Windows(wb_name).Activate
'Sheets("SheetA").Select
'Set rg =Worksheets("SheetA").Range("C:C")
'With rg
'value1 = Cells.Find(What:="11693", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False,
SearchFormat:=False).Value
'End With
For clarifying, what exactly I want; in values1 = Cells.Find ...I changed Cells to rg but it doesnt work. I want to know why? Also I see it unnecessary to use activate . I want to write a code where I will get rid of Activate another workbook. So, just by giving source wb and ws names and range to look for the value
Try the next way, please:
Sub FindInOtherSheet()
Dim Value1 As String, rg As Range
Set rg = Workbooks("W1.xlsx").Worksheets("SheetA").Range("C:C")
With rg
Value1 = .cells.Find(What:="11693", After:=.cells(1, 1), LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False).value
End With
End Sub
It starts searching after the first cell of the range. ActiveCell does not have sense in a not activated sheet...
Edited:
As an example to clarify your question about the Find "problem" of not returning any error in case of no any match, I would state that this should be considered an advantage.
You can simple check if the function returned a range in this simple way (I will use the above code to exemplify):
Sub FindInOtherSheet()
Dim Value1 As String, rg As Range, fndCell as Range
Set rg = Workbooks("W1.xlsx").Worksheets("SheetA").Range("C:C")
With rg
set fndCell = .cells.Find(What:="11693", After:=.cells(1, 1), LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
'check if Find returned a range:
If not fndCell is Nothing Then 'if a match has been found
Value1 = fndCell.value
Else
MsgBox "No match has been found...": Exit Sub
End If
End With
End Sub
I'm using the range.find method to locate a cell with specific value in the first row. When there's a match, the code works fine. When there's no match, the code throws error as shown in screenshot below.
Is it normal that we need error handling for this method? I thought it'd just return Null or Nothing. Thank you for your help!
Use this. if you directly wanted to return column number of an empty range, it will show error.
Sub findtest()
dim c as long
dim rng as range
Set rng = ActiveSheet.Rows("1:1").Find(What:="John Smith", _
After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)
If Not rng Is Nothing Then c = rng.column : Debug.Print c
end sub
I have an excel file that has the text "Income from Trans" where I will need to delete the entire column.
This is my current code in VBA 2010 that works until there are no more cells with "Income from Trans"; I can't get it to break out of the loop.
Any idea why?
Dim rng1 As Range
Dim target1 As String
target1 = "Income From Trans"
Set rng1 = Cells.Find(What:=target1, _
After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False)
Do Until rng1 Is Nothing
Cells.Find(What:=target1, After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows,
SearchDirection _
:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False).Activate
ActiveCell.EntireColumn.Delete
Loop
Your code Set rng1 = Cells.Find... will set rng1 to be a range object, assuming it finds your value. Next is your loop which will ultimately cause rng1 to be deleted. It continues to loop because even though rng1 is deleted it still was assigned and therefore isn't Nothing. It ends with an run time error message of 91 because rng1 was set but deleted. You can see in the locals window View>Locals Window that its type is still Range\Range even though it's actually been deleted.
You have implicit cell references from the unqualified Cells usage. That means this code will run on whatever worksheet happens to be the ActiveSheet. Implicit references can have unintended side effects when you don't realize this. It's best to fully qualify them so there's no ambiguity as to which sheet they reside on. I'm assuming ActiveCell falls into this category too since you want it to wrap delete until there "Income from Trans" is no longer found.
The code .Activate followed by ActiveCell. isn't needed and can be shortened by removing both so it ends up as SearchFormat:=False).EntireColum.... Selecting a range object isn't usually necessary. Joining the two makes it apparent what you're doing.
Below you'll find a simpler version that uses .Find is in your original to find the first instance. After that it uses .FindNext() to continue looping until all are found. This eventually exits because it is setting the range variable found after every deletion, ultimately leaving found as Nothing after it's deleted the last. The RemoveColumns has parameters which allow you to use this on more than just a single sheet.
Sub Test()
RemoveColumns Sheet1, "Income From Trans"
End Sub
Sub RemoveColumns(ByVal sheetToSearch As Worksheet, ByVal value As String)
Dim found As Range
Set found = sheetToSearch.Cells.Find(What:=value, After:=sheetToSearch.Range("A1"), LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False)
Do Until found Is Nothing
found.EntireColumn.Delete
Set found = sheetToSearch.Cells.FindNext
Loop
End Sub
Check the search result inside the loop as well
Dim rng1 As Range, target1 As String, firstFound As String
target1 = "Income From Trans"
Set rng1 = Cells.Find(What:=target1, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False)
If Not rng1 Is Nothing Then
Do
firstFound = rng1.Address
Set rng1 = Cells.Find(What:=target1, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
If Not rng1 Is Nothing Then rng1.EntireColumn.Delete
Loop While Not rng1 Is Nothing And rng1.Address <> firstFound
End If
I am trying to create a macro in excel VBA, that searches the Range (B1:B30) of the value of the ActiveCell in Column “B” by a loop. Along with the search of Column, I also want to check if the date’s cell is colored with a particular color. If the date's cell equals the set color "Good", then I want it to change the color of the cell in Column H of the same row as selected to red.
When I run the code, I get an error message of “Run-time error ‘424’: Object required.” When I go to debug the problem, it highlights the .Find function I have and points to the last line of the search which is “SearchFormat:=False).Activate” What should I do to fix this problem?
Any improvement with my overall code will be very much appreciated.
Sub Find()
Dim FirstAddress As String
Dim MySearch As Variant
Dim Rng As Range
Dim I As Long
MySearch = Array(ActiveCell)
With Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B1:B30")
For I = LBound(MySearch) To UBound(MySearch)
Set Rng = .Find(What:=MySearch(I), _
After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _
SearchFormat:=False).Activate
If Not Rng Is Nothing Then
FirstAddress = Rng.Address
Do
If ActiveCell.Style.Name = "Good" Then
Rng("H" & ActiveCell.Row).Select
Rng.Interior.ColorIndex = xlColorIndexRed
End If
Set Rng = .FindNext(Rng)
Loop While Not Rng Is Nothing And Rng.Address <> FirstAddress
End If
Next I
End With
End Sub
Showing the Debug mode of the run-time error.
Screenshot of the Spreadsheet for reference
Code Review:
You have several problems here.
MySearch = Array(ActiveCell) will always be a single value. So why bother looping through it
You cannot set a range to equal range.activate. Searching Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B1:B30") implies that you are searching a worksheet other that the ActiveSheet. If this is the case than .Find(After:=Activecell) suggests that you are looking for a value after the ActiveCell of another worksheet.
Set Rng = .Find(What:=MySearch(I), _
After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _
SearchFormat:=False).Activate
Rng("H" & ActiveCell.Row) Rng is a Range object. It doesn't work like Range. You cannot pass it a cell address. You can do this Rng(1,"H") which is really shorthand for Rng.cells(1,"H") bit that is misleading because Rng is in column 2 Rng(1,"H") will reference the value in column I.
Sub Find()
Dim FirstAddress As String
Dim MySearch As Variant
Dim Rng As Range
Dim I As Long
MySearch = ActiveCell 'This is the ActiveCell of the ActiveSheet not necessarily Sheets("Sheet1")
With Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B1:B30")
Set Rng = .Find(What:=MySearch, _
After:=.Range("B1"), _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, _
SearchFormat:=False)
If Not Rng Is Nothing Then
FirstAddress = Rng.Address
Do
If Rng.Style.Name = "Good" Then
.Range("H" & Rng.Row).Interior.ColorIndex = xlColorIndexRed
End If
Set Rng = .FindNext(Rng)
Loop While Not Rng Is Nothing And Rng.Address <> FirstAddress
End If
End With
End Sub
UPDATE:
Here is the actual answer to your question:
Sub FindMatchingValue()
Const AllUsedCellsColumnB = False
Dim rFound As Range, SearchRange As Range
If AllUsedCellsColumnB Then
Set SearchRange = Range("B1", Range("B" & Rows.count).End(xlUp))
Else
Set SearchRange = Range("B1:B30")
End If
If Intersect(SearchRange, ActiveCell) Is Nothing Then
SearchRange.Select
MsgBox "You must select a cell in the highlighted area before continuing", vbInformation, "Action Cancelled"
Exit Sub
End If
Set rFound = SearchRange.Find(What:=ActiveCell.Value, _
After:=ActiveCell, _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
SearchFormat:=False)
If Not rFound Is Nothing Then
Do
If rFound.Style.Name = "Good" Then
Range("H" & rFound.Row).Interior.Color = vbRed
End If
Set rFound = SearchRange.FindNext(rFound)
Loop While Not rFound Is Nothing And rFound.Address <> ActiveCell.Address
End If
End Sub
You can't put Activate at the end of the findthe way you are trying to do.
Try this as you find statement.
Set Rng = .Find(What:=MySearch(I), _
After:=.Cells(.Cells.Count), _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
Rng.Activate
Then if you want to Activate the range, do that. But, it is best to stay away from Select, Activate etc in VBA code. I strongly suggest not using that last line of code and adjust you code to not rely on Select and Activate.
you may want to consider an Autofilter approach so as to loop only through relevant cells, as follows:
Option Explicit
Sub Find()
Dim cell As Range
With Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B1:B30")
.Rows(1).Insert '<--| insert a dummy header cell to exploit Autofilter. it'll be removed by the end
With .Offset(-1).Resize(.Rows.Count + 1) '<--| consider the range expanded up to the dummy header cell
.Rows(1) = "header" '<--| give the dummy header cell a dummy name
.AutoFilter field:=1, Criteria1:=ActiveCell '<--| filter range on the wanted criteria
If Application.WorksheetFunction.Subtotal(103, .Cells) > 1 Then '<--| if any cell other than "header" one has been filtered...
For Each cell In .Offset(1).Resize(.Rows.Count - 1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible) '<--| ... loop through filtered cells only
If cell.Style.Name = "Good" Then cell.Offset(, 6).Interior.ColorIndex = 3 '<--| ... and color only properly styled cells
Next cell
End If
.AutoFilter '<--| .. show all rows back...
End With
.Offset(-1).Resize(1).Delete '<--|delete dummy header cell
End With
End Sub
I am currently working on a report, originating in Infoview (SAP business Objects)
This is a report that provides valuable information on a weekly basis, to enhance awareness of current shop performance.
Like the tile of the post might show i want to find a cell with specific text. It has multiple occurrences, and I want to past a previously selected cell in all of those instances.
I can reach the same result by Ctrl-F, "Search all" ( for the "specific text") and than Paste (the previously selected cell)
( http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/816-excel-select-cells-with-specific-text.html)
But i would like to automate this.
I want to use:
Cells.Find(What:="[ö]", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= _
xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False _
, SearchFormat:=False).Activate
and
Cells.FindNext(After:=ActiveCell).Activate
But I can't incorporate the two in one macro that gives me the result i describes above.
The previously selected cell contains a formula, containing index(match) and a reference to a cell on the same row as the "specific text".
In my opinion this way of doing stuff saves me a lot of trouble with dynamic cell references ect.
I hope you can help
Your request is a little vague, but I believe this will get you started
Dim PasteValue as string 'this is what you're pasting in
Dim WS as Worksheet
Dim FirstCell as string
Dim rng as range
PasteValue = 'do something here to get your value
set rng = Cells.Find(What:="[ö]", LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
while not rng is nothing 'make sure you found something
if len(FirstCell) = 0 then
firstcell = rng.address 'save this spot off so we don't keep looping
end if
rng.value = PasteValue
'now find the next one
set rng = Cells.Find(What:="[ö]", LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:= xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
if rng.address = FirstCell then 'back at the first cell
set rng = nothing 'so get out of the loop
endif
end while
Thanks for the code above, it helped a lot.
This is the final code, in case anyone needs it. The
If rng Is Nothing Then Exit Do
Loop While rng.Address <> strFirstAddress
is particulary usefull.
Sub Fill_VCNC()
Dim formula_ö As String
Dim rng As Range
Dim strFirstAddress As String
With Range("S:S")
Set rng = Cells.Find(What:="[ö]", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, _
SearchFormat:=False)
If Not rng Is Nothing Then
strFirstAddress = rng.Address
Do
rng.formula = formula_ö
.NumberFormat = "0.00"
Set rng = .FindNext(rng)
If rng Is Nothing Then Exit Do
Loop While rng.Address <> strFirstAddress
End If
End With
End Sub
( source : https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/958fca4e-b19d-4b50-8235-e05adc7f25d5/loop-through-a-range-until-value-not-found?forum=exceldev)