How to remove a certain value from a table that will vary in size in Excel - vba

Question

I'm new to the community and I apologize if there is a thread elsewhere, but I could not find it!
I'm currently diving into VBA coding for the first time. I have a file that I dump into a worksheet that currently I'm manually organizing and pushing out. When put into the worksheet, it delimits itself across the cells. This dump file will have varying row and column lengths every time I get it in a given day and dump into a work sheet. For example, one day it may be twenty rows and one day it may be thirty.
A certain roadblock in my VBA code creation process has presented itself. I'm trying to create a code that will parse through the worksheet to remove any time a certain value appears (See below image - I'm referring to the (EXT)). After doing so I'm trying to concatenate the cells in the row up until there is a space (which with the rows that have (EXT), there usually isn't a space after until the (EXT) is removed).
The code I made works for now but I recognize it's not very efficient and not reliable if the names extend longer than two cells. I was hoping someone on here could provide me with guidance. So, I'm looking for two things:
For the code to scan the whole active used range of the table and remove (EXT). As it may appear in various columns.
A way to concatenate the cells in every row in the active range from A to the cell before a blank cell
Keep in mind I have no coding background, I'm learning and I'm not familiar with VBA terms and whatnot all that much just yet - so if you could please explain in laymen's terms I'd appreciate it. I hope all of this makes sense... Thanks in advance!
This is just an example of part of what the dump code looks like, so my code probably doesn't match with the example below - I just wanted to provide a visual:
http://i.imgur.com/IwDDoYd.jpg
The code I currently have:
Sub DN_ERROR_ORGANIZER()
' Removes any (EXT) in Column 3 in actual dump data file
For i = 200 To 1 Step -1
If (Cells(i, 3).value = "(EXT)") Then
Cells(i, 3).Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End If
Next i
' Removes any (EXT) in Column 4 in actual dump data file
For j = 200 To 1 Step -1
If (Cells(j, 4).value = "(EXT)") Then
Cells(j, 4).Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End If
Next j
' Removes any (EXT) in Column 5 in actual dump data file
For k = 200 To 1 Step -1
If (Cells(k, 5).value = "(EXT)") Then
Cells(k, 5).Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End If
Next k
' Places a new column before A and performs a concatenate on cells B1 and C1 to
' form a name, then copies all through column A1 to repeat on each row
Columns("A:A").Select
Selection.Insert Shift:=xlToRight, CopyOrigin:=xlFormatFromLeftOrAbove
Range("A1").Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=PROPER(CONCATENATE(RC[1],"", "", RC[2]))"
Range("A1").Select
Selection.AutoFill Destination:=Range("A1:A51")
Range("A1:A51").Select
End Sub

Answer 1

edited: to keep the comma after the first "name" only
this should do:
Sub main()
Dim cell As Range
With Worksheets("names")
With Intersect(.UsedRange, .Range("A1", .Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp)).EntireRow)
For Each cell In .Rows
cell.Cells(1, 2).Value = Replace(Replace(Replace(Join(Application.Transpose(Application.Transpose(cell.Value)), " "), " ", " "), " (EXT)", ""), " ", ", ", , 1)
Next cell
.Columns(1).FormulaR1C1 = "=PROPER(RC[1])"
.Columns(1).Value = .Columns(1).Value
.Offset(, 1).Resize(, .Columns.Count - 1).ClearContents
End With
End With
End Sub
just remember to change "names" to you actual worksheet name
edited 2:
code for stopping cells to be processed at every line at the last one before the first blank one
Sub main()
Dim cell As Range, dataRng As Range
With Worksheets("names") '<--| change "names" to you actual worksheet name
Set dataRng = Intersect(.UsedRange, .Range("A1", .Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp)).EntireRow)
For Each cell In dataRng.Columns(1).Cells
cell.Offset(, 1).Value = Replace(Replace(Replace(Join(Application.Transpose(Application.Transpose(.Range(cell, cell.End(xlToRight)).Value)), " "), " ", " "), " (EXT)", ""), " ", ", ", , 1)
Next cell
With dataRng
.Columns(1).FormulaR1C1 = "=PROPER(RC[1])"
.Columns(1).Value = .Columns(1).Value
.Offset(, 1).Resize(, .Columns.Count - 1).ClearContents
End With
End With
End Sub

Answer 2

I believe you are quite close to achieve what you are asking for and, based on your request, I will not give you a solution but some guidance to complete it by yourself.
First 3 loops: You could simplify by having a single set of nested loops: An outer loop running from 3 to 5, an inner loop running from 200 to 1; the outer loop will run over index, say "p", the inner over index, say "q", and your reference to cells would become Cells(q,p). If you need to run this over more than 3 rows, just start the outer loop from, say, 3 and till, say 10000 (being 10000 the maximal number of rows your data may display) and add a condition that if the first cell of the row is empty, you exit the outer loop.
The second part (this is what I understood) is to take the 2-3 first cells and concatenate them into a new cell (i.e. the column you add at the left). Once again, you can just loop over all your rows (much the same as in the outer loop mentioned above), except that now you will be looking at the cells in columns 2-4 (because you added a column at the left). The same exit condition as above can be used.
I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this is what I understood you were looking for.

Answer 3

After reading user3598756's answer, I realized that I missed the boat with my original answer.
Sub DN_ERROR_ORGANIZER()
Dim Target As Range
Set Target = Worksheets("Sheet1").UsedRange
Target.Replace "(EXT)", ""
With Target.Offset(0, Target.Columns.Count).Resize(, 1)
.FormulaR1C1 = "=PROPER(C1&"", ""&TEXTJOIN("" "",TRUE,RC[-" & (Target.Columns.Count - 1) & "]:RC[-1]))"
.Value = .Value
End With
Target.Delete
End Sub
UPDATE
If you are running an older version of Excel that doesn't support TEXTJOIN then use this:
Sub DN_ERROR_ORGANIZER()
Dim Data
Dim x As Long, y As Long
Dim Target As Range
Dim Text As String
Set Target = Worksheets("Sheet1").UsedRange
Target.Replace "(EXT)", ""
Data = Target.Value
For x = 1 To Target.Rows.Count
Data(x, 1) = Data(x, 1)
For y = 2 To Target.Columns.Count
If Data(x, y) <> vbNullString Then Text = Text & " " & Data(x, y)
Next
If Len(Text) Then Data(x, 1) = Data(x, 1) & "," & Text
Text = vbNullString
Next
Target.ClearContents
Target.Columns(1).Value = Data
End Sub