Excel VBA Runtime Error '424' Object Required when deleting rows - vba

Question

I'm trying to compare cell values between 2 Sheets (Sheet1 & Sheet2) to see if they match, and if they match move the matching values in Sheet1 to a pre-existing list (Sheet3) and delete the values in Sheet1 afterwards.
I'm using the reverse For Loop in Excel VBA, but everything works until the part where I start deleting the row using newrange1.EntireRow.Delete.
This throws a '424' Object Required Error in VBA and I've spent hours trying to solve this, I'm not sure why this is appearing. Am I selecting the row incorrectly? The object?
Would appreciate if anyone can point me to the correct direction.
Here's my code:
Sub Step2()
Sheets("Sheet1").Activate
Dim counter As Long, unsubListCount As Long, z As Long, x As Long, startRow As Long
counter = 0
startRow = 2
z = 0
x = 0
' Count Sheet3 Entries
unsubListCount = Worksheets("Sheet3").UsedRange.Rows.Count
Dim rng1 As Range, rng2 As Range, cell1 As Range, cell2 As Range, newrange1 As Range
' Select all emails in Sheet1 and Sheet2 (exclude first row)
Set rng1 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("D1:D" & Worksheets("Sheet1").UsedRange.Rows.Count)
Set rng2 = Worksheets("Sheet2").Range("D1:D" & Worksheets("Sheet2").UsedRange.Rows.Count)
' Brute Loop through each Sheet1 row to check with Sheet2
For z = rng1.Count To startRow Step -1
'Cells(z, 4)
Set cell1 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(z, "D")
For x = rng2.Count To startRow Step -1
Set cell2 = Worksheets("Sheet2").Cells(x, "D")
If cell1.Value = cell2.Value Then ' If rng1 and rng2 emails match
counter = counter + 1
Set newrange1 = Worksheets("Sheet1").Rows(cell1.Row)
newrange1.Copy Destination:=Worksheets("Sheet3").Range("A" & unsubListCount + counter)
newrange1.EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
Here's the error I'm getting:

Answer 1

Your inner loop produces a lot of step-by-step work that is better accomplished with Application.Match. Your use of .UsedRange to retrieve the extents of the values in the D columns is better by looking for the last value from the bottom up.
Option Explicit
Sub Step2()
Dim z As Long, startRow As Long
Dim rng2 As Range, wk3 As Worksheet, chk As Variant
startRow = 2
z = 0
Set wk3 = Worksheets("Sheet3")
' Select all emails in Sheet1 and Sheet2 (exclude first row)
With Worksheets("Sheet2")
Set rng2 = .Range(.Cells(2, "D"), .Cells(.Rows.Count, "D").End(xlUp))
End With
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
For z = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "D").End(xlUp).Row To startRow Step -1
chk = Application.Match(.Cells(z, "D").Value2, rng2, 0)
If Not IsError(chk) Then
.Cells(z, "A").EntireRow.Copy _
Destination:=wk3.Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0)
.Cells(z, "A").EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next
End With
End Sub
As noted by Ryan Wildry, your original problem was continuing the loop and comparing after deleting the row. This can be avoided by adding Exit For after newrange1.EntireRow.Delete to jump out of the inner loop once a match was found. I don't think you should 'reset cell1' as this may foul up the loop iteration.

Answer 2

I think what's happening is when you are deleting the row, you are losing the reference to the range Cell1. So I reset this after the deletion is done, and removed the reference to newRange1. Give this a shot, I have it working on my end. I also formatted the code slightly too.
Option Explicit
Sub Testing()
Dim counter As Long: counter = 0
Dim z As Long: z = 0
Dim x As Long: x = 0
Dim startRow As Long: startRow = 2
Dim Sheet1 As Worksheet: Set Sheet1 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")
Dim Sheet2 As Worksheet: Set Sheet2 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet2")
Dim Sheet3 As Worksheet: Set Sheet3 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet3")
Dim rng1 As Range: Set rng1 = Sheet1.Range("D1:D" & Sheet1.UsedRange.Rows.Count)
Dim rng2 As Range: Set rng2 = Sheet2.Range("D1:D" & Sheet2.UsedRange.Rows.Count)
Dim unsubListCount As Long: unsubListCount = Sheet3.UsedRange.Rows.Count
Dim cell1 As Range
Dim cell2 As Range
Dim newrange1 As Range
' Brute Loop through each Sheet1 row to check with Sheet2
For z = rng1.Count To startRow Step -1
Set cell1 = Sheet1.Cells(z, 4)
For x = rng2.Count To startRow Step -1
Set cell2 = Sheet2.Cells(x, 4)
If cell1 = cell2 Then
counter = counter + 1
Set newrange1 = Sheet1.Rows(cell1.Row)
newrange1.Copy Destination:=Sheet3.Range("A" & unsubListCount + counter)
newrange1.EntireRow.Delete
Set newrange1 = Nothing
Set cell1 = Sheet1.Cells(z, 4)
End If
Next
Next
End Sub