First time here, sorry if I'm doing something wrong
I just found out about excel macros and I think they will help me a lot, but I'm not really into programming and all this stuff
I did a few macros and it was really easy, but this one is not, at least not for me, I hope you can help me
I already tried a lot of stuff like NumberFormat and Format(...) but it didn't work how I wanted it to work
What I want is:
I get excel documents with a certain date in cell [F6] (formated dd.mm) like this: "01.08" , it's always 01 (first day of the month)
now I want a macro, that will take that date, and everytime I use the macro I want it to paste the next day in the cell I have currently selected (ActiveCell)
so when I use my macro for the first time in that document, I want it to paste "02.08" into the current cell I have selected
the next time I use it "03.08" etc..
I hope you understand me and can help me
Try this. Note that i will be reset to 0 when you close the workbook. If you want to store i between sessions you have to write it to a cell and then reference that cell.
Cell F6 has to be properly formatted as Date.
Dim i As Long
Sub next_day()
i = i + 1
Selection = Range("F6").Value + i
Selection.NumberFormat = "dd.mm"
End Sub
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I have a vba code that generates an email. I would like the subject to be the data from the first and last cells in my list. The thing is, my list isnt of a set length, sometimes it contains 5 pieces of data sometimes 8 etc. How do i tell vba to pick the first and last cell no matter the length of the list?
thanks
For me, best practice is to just have cells on your sheet that calculate the first and last row (different ways you can do that), then give those cells a range name such as FirstRow and LastRow. In your vba then you refer to these cells to make your code dynamic.
e.g:
firstRow = Range("FirstRow)
lastRow = Range("lastRow")
test = range(cells(firstRow,lastRow))
-- Note I have not written VBA in many many years so am writing the above from memory so it may be not be exact.
Of course you can do it all entirely in VBA using the xlDown method mentioned previously but I prefer the transparency of it being on the main page so that easily spot if something breaks.
Range("A1").End(xlDown).Value
Where the cell is where you want to start and the End part moves all the way to the end
First, I must admit that I am completely newbie here and in VBA mostly too. Thank you for this forum! :)
I have program that reacts on SheetChange to save the data. However, if there is formula added by macro, it doesn't cause the SheetChange. Copying and inserting as values isn't possible - there are 7k rows and the program acts on every SheetChange (colors and other stuff) - the time is not bearable.
Is there any possibility to have EnableEvents = False (to turn of getting SheetChange), then specify the Range of the changed cells (always rather the whole column - there are 2 columns only that interest me) and then let the program save data. The coloring of the cells and so on would remain (this coloring and so on has to stay in the program)
Is it even possible that it would work? If it could, how should I tell the macro that specific Range has SheetChange?
Apologies if the question is totally stupid.
Thank you very much for reading at least.
In the sheet change event, just specify that it should only save when Target is within the specified range. For the formulas, use the Calculate event and repeat essentially the same code.
So, if you only want it to save when the changed cell is in the first column and only within a certain row range (for example), add If Target.Column = 1 And Target.Row > 5 And Target.Row <= 10 Then to your change event.
For the Formula issue, add the following routine
Private Sub Worksheet_Calculate()
'your code here
End Sub
I am having some problem with using a countifs formula in Excel / VBA. I have got the formula working perfect in Excel but ideally I want to use this in VBA with my form. Here is the formula in Excel which works a treat:
=COUNTIFS(Sheet1!A:A,"Place",Sheet1!K:K,"<"&TODAY())
will count the names places that are now in the past
=COUNTIFS(Sheet1!A:A,"place",Sheet1!K:K,">"&TODAY())
will count the names places that are current
I have five different Places in column A and hundreds of different dates in column K. The above formulas work well in Excel and return the correct values. I have spent hours trying to get this to work in VBA with my userform but keep getting various errors. The first part is not the problem but as soon as I get to the &today function it falls apart. From what I can see the &today function is not available in VBA and the &Date seems to be the recommendation. I have tried this but still get no where. I'm missing a trick (or several) here and I would really like to get this working in VBA rather than using the current formulas in Excel. The returned results are then displayed in textboxes on my form.
All ideas and feedback much welcome!
Second edit
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Thanks for the quick replies! Here is the actual code I am playing about with in VBA
'Count events by area'
Dim ListLondon As Long
ListLondon = .CountIf(Range("a1:a1998"), "London"), ("Sheet1!K1:K1998"), "<" & Date)
End With
Me.TextBox1 = ListLondon
I know the second part of the count if is all wrong regards the date - that's how I've left it for now. I am really hoping to use the current layout and a working Date / Today code at the end. Please show me what I've done wrong here!
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oops - can see a mistake already - but the initial problem remains around the date issue. I should of used countifs as using multiple criteria.
You have to read the values of the cells to your VBA code. I recommend you to use Excel.Range object to do that. It can interpret the range like the edit line of the Excel, something like
Dim foo as Excel.Range
set foo = yourworksheet.Range("A1:B3")
Read the Date type data into VBA Date type variable by iterating through the cells.
Examine relation between the read data and the current date. Current date can be read by using the DateTime.Now function.
Increment a variable based on a decision
I am trying to grab only the current number of minutes in an hour.
I use the NOW() function and I have the format of the cell it's in set to only mm. So in the cell display, if it's 9:08, I get 08.
Whenever I try a excel formula like =VALUE(D5) or =D5, I get (I'm assuming this is what it is) an unformatted date string.
I am now looking to macros using VBA to solve my problem.
I've tried:
Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(23, 1) = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("E20").Value
However I get the same thing as with my excel formulas. Is there any VBA way of getting only the value that's displayed in the cell and copied to a new area. It doesn't really need to be copied over, I just need to use the value further in my macro.
I'm open to other ways of getting the current number of minutes in the current hour as well.
Do try not to confuse formatting and data.
why not use =MINUTE(D5) in a cell which will set that cell to the minute value irrespective of formatting? Use that cell as your source in your VBA.
=HOUR(D5) would operate similarly but return the hour part.
If the displays 9:08
then select that cell and:
Sub dural()
Dim s As String
s = Split(ActiveCell.Text, ":")(1)
MsgBox s
End Sub
Note this is a String
Might be calculated like so:
=60*(NOW()*24-INT(NOW()*24))
This question is somewhat difficult to explain, so bear with me.
I am pulling data from a large table for my company and am trying to create a macro to make this data easier to read/understand. The data that is on the site changes every day based on what caused certain failures in our plant, which causes my macro to analyze data that isn't there or wrong cells (due to rows getting shifted/moved/added/removed). Because I don't think that was really clear, here is an example:
The macro says to select cells J5, J13, and J25. These were, when I was creating the macro, the values I wanted to be put in a list. However, when I pulled the data and ran the macro today, these values were in different spots on my sheet (the value for cell J13 is now in J12). This completely messes up all of the analysis and renders my macro / data pull useless.
Is there a way to have the macro select the data more intelligently? Perhaps have it check for the group name, then select the value from the cell next to it? I wish I could word this better... Thanks if you've gotten this far!
Simply put... yes. Here's a code exert for looking for a groupname and getting the adjacent cell:
Dim Group1Range As Range
'Look in ThisWorkbook
With ThisWorkbook
'Look in Sheet1
With .Sheets(1)
'Look in Column I
With .Columns("I:I")
'Find the text Group1
Set Group1Range = .Find(What:="Group1").Offset(0, 1)
End With
End With
End With
'Indicate the address of the found range
Debug.Print Group1Range.Address
End Sub
Now here are ways that you can improve your question:
Explain how you know that cell J13 is no longer valid, and that J12 is now.
Give us some sample data.
Give us your code.
Tell us what your end result would be, possibly with an example.