Selecting last row, range, vba - vba

I'm fairly new to vba and have a rather simple problem. Can someone please help:
Instead of selecting the specific cell, I want my vba macro to go to the bottom of the column of interest, skip, and two cells below it do the following:
Range("W72").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "General"
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "Null_value"
Range("X72").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "General"
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=R[-2]C[1]-SUM(R[-2]C[-8]:R[-2]C[-6])"
As you can see the code above refers to the specific cells W72 and X72. Currently, the last entry in these columns are in W70 and X70 but next month my dataset will get bigger so W72 and X72 aren't the right locations to do the actions above. How do I correct for this such that my vba code is automatically going to the bottom of W(n):X(n), skips one row and in W(n+2), X(n+2) performs the code above.
Also, my formula above (ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1) also is referring to specific cells, in my case Row 70 several columns to the left, but as you probably tell, this too has the same issue since the row referencing changes each month. I need to get my vba to have the formula pick up the last row of those columns, the columns are P,Q,R.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Update: Part of my same working project, I would greatly appreciate if anyone can help with this too. Thank you:
Hi All,
I currently have an input box for a variable that changes everymonth:
r_mo = Application.InputBox(prompt:="Enter the reporting month as YYYYMM (Eg:201604). Errors in this entry will result in errors in the results.")
This prompts an input box which one has to manually enter into... However, I want to automate this process and eliminate the need for an input box. Isn't there a now function in vba that will automatically generate today's date.
From a now, or system function all I want to do is extract the year in four digits and the month in two digits.
So for example, if we're in decemeber 2016
Sub asasdas ()
"Now function"
r_mo = YYYYMM ' automatically updated from "now function"
End Sub
I appreciate any help you can give me and thank you so much all.

You can get the last populated row of a given column (W in my example) in VBA with the following code:
Dim ws As Worksheet : Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("MySheetNameHere")
lastRow = ws.Cells(ws.Rows.Count, "W").End(xlUp).Row
Naturally, if you then add 2 to lastRow you have the cell you are looking for.

I'd do it like
Sub asdf()
Range("w1048576").End(xlUp).Offset(2, 0).Select 'gets the last row
With Selection
.NumberFormat = "General"
.FormulaR1C1 = "Null_value"
End With
ActiveCell.Offset(, 1).Select
With Selection
.NumberFormat = "General"
.FormulaR1C1 = "=R[-2]C[1]-SUM(R[-2]C[-8]:R[-2]C[-6])"
End With
End Sub

If you want a more detailed answer you're going to have to make a new question but for your second question try this.
Sub Now()
Dim myDate As String
myDate = Date
myDate = Format(myDate, "yyyymm")
Debug.Print myDate '201606 output for June 10th 2016
End Sub

Related

Hide Rows based on Date in Column

I've searched and searched the internet and all of the forums and I've been piecing together code and still can't figure this out. I've tried For loops and For Each loops and still can't get it right. In my sheet, I have all of my dates in Column D. I want to hide rows by month. I want to be able to click a macro button and only show dates in January, or February, or etc.
This is what I currently have:
Sub January()
'
'
'
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Range("Date")
If cell.Value = "" Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = False
End If
If cell.Value < "1/1/2018" Or cell.Value > "1/31/2018" Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Next cell
End Sub
When I run this, it just hides anything that isn't an empty cell. I've cycled between defining cell as a Range and as a Variant and it's the same either way.
ETA:
It is working now and it took help from everybody. I really appreciate it! Here's what I ended with..
Sub January()
'
'
'
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Range("Date")
If cell.Value = "" Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = False
ElseIf cell.Value < CDate("1/1") Or cell.Value > CDate("1/31") Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Next cell
End Sub
I removed the years from the code so that I don't have to change any coding for future years.
Your current setup would qualify all dates as either < or > the respective date comparison.
If you are trying to hide rows for January in this code, then you need to use AND instead of OR
And be sure you use >= & <= to include those first and last dates.
If cell >= "1/1/2018" AND cell <= "1/31/2018" Then
If you are trying to hide rows not January then your < and > are transposed:
If cell < "1/1/2018" OR cell > "1/31/2018" Then
Alternative approach: If you've got Excel 2013 or later, simply add a Table Slicer and filter on a MONTH column generated with =DATE(YEAR([#Date]),MONTH([#Date]),1) as shown below:
Or otherwise use a PivotTable and a Slicer:
To see how easy it is to set up a PivotTable, see VBA to copy data if multiple criteria are met
Ultimately, I believe this is the code you're looking for:
Sub January()
Dim cell As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each cell In Range("Date")
'If date falls on or after January 1, AND on or before January 31, don't hide the row
If cell.Value >= CDate("1/1/2018") And cell.Value <= CDate("1/31/2018") Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = False
Else
'If the cell doesn't contain anything or isn't in January, hide the row
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = True
End If
Next cell
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
You need to use And logic, not Or logic. Or logic always returns TRUE unless both expressions are false or there is a null involved. Because of this, the code stopped looking at your logical statement once it evaluated to true since every date you had - I'm assuming - fell after January 1, 2018. This in turn caused the rows to hide unexpectedly.
Additionally, I would convert the strings you have into dates using CDate. It helps Excel understand what is going on a bit better and makes your code easier to understand to outsiders. Another good practice to work on is adding comments to code. I think we've all learned the hard way by leaving comments out of code at some point or another.
One last thing: if you're planning to have buttons for each month, consider doing one procedure for all of them and having variables populate the date ranges, potentially using input boxes to get the values from the user. It'll save you a lot of headaches if you ever decide to change things up in the future.
Untested, written on mobile. I am just providing an alternative approach which tries to use MONTH and YEAR. Some may find this approach easier to understand.
Option Explicit
Sub January()
Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Range("Date")
If cell.Value = "" Then
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = False
Else
cell.EntireRow.Hidden = (Month(cell.Value) = 1) and (year(cell.Value) = 2018)
End if
Next cell
End sub
I will actually go with Slicers and Table.
But if you call VBA your neat solution then I'd say abandon the loop.
Have nothing against it but if Excel already have the functionality, then use it.
It is like a discount or a promotion that we need to take advantage of.
So instead of loop, why not just filter?
Dim lr As Long, r As Range
With Sheet1 '/* sheet where data reside */
.AutoFilterMode = False '/* reset any filtering already applied */
lr = .Range("D" & .Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row '/* get the target cells */
Set r = .Range("D1:D" & lr) '/* explicitly set target object */
'/* filter without showing the dropdown, see the last argument set to false */
r.AutoFilter 1, ">=2/1/2018", xlAnd, "<=2/28/2018", False
End With
Above is for February of this year, you can tweak it to be dynamic.
You can create separate sub procedure for each month of you can just have a generic one.

VBA: Finding the row number by looking up a user defined value (date)

I am trying to use VBA to look up the row value that corresponds to a user defined date on one of my work sheets so that I am able to edit all data on that row.
As a bit of context:
I have several time series data sets that all have different start and end dates with a good portion of overlap in the middle. I want to chart these using user defined date parameters, however, because of non-uniform start dates, the chart is impossible to dynamically rebase.
I was hoping to use a macro to clone the data on one sheet, overwrite the line of values that corresponds to the user defined start date, and then calculate return values based on percentage change figures (I already have in a different sheet).
If I can dynamically o/w the row that corresponds to the UD start date of the date range, I can replace it with a one and all my calculations will effectively rebase.
Any and all feedback would be great!
EDIT
Lucas,
I am having two issues; firstly, what I have inexpertly cobbled together doesn't work when I protect the sheets (not insurmountable); secondly, it doesn't work :). Here is my work:
Sub Rebase()
Dim UDStartVal
Dim UDStartLoc As Range
Dim UDRow As Integer
'
' Rebase Macro
' A macro to rebase the chart to the user defined start date.
'
'
Sheets("Cumulative Monthly Returns").Select
Cells.Select
Selection.Copy
Sheets("Chart Numbers").Select
Range("A1").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste
' Lookup to change the value of the cells corresponding to the user defined start date to 0, effectivley rebasing the portfolo.
Worksheets("Cumulative Period Returns").Activate
UDStartVal = Cells(4, 2).Value
Set UDStartLoc = Range("A:A").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(UDStartVal)
Set UDRow = UDStartLoc.Row
Stop
End Sub
Here's some code that I use to find the row of an entry based on quote numbers on a sheet that gets resorted and re-filtered constantly.
Private Sub FindQuote(partNum as String)
Dim quoteRow as Range
Set quoteRow = Range("A:A").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(partNum)
then when I want to do something that uses the range of that row I use quoteRow.Row
If Not quoteRow Is Nothing Then
quoteNum = Cells(quoteRow.Row, "P").Value
Cells(quoteRow.Row, "Q").Value = "Found"
Else
MsgBox "No quote was found"
End If
End Sub
Did you need help with the part where you clone your sheet?

Excel Macro To Advance Date

I have a ton of excel sheets that each have 3 excel workbook tabs. On the last one there will be a ton of data but one column will be a date column with a bunch of different dates underneath. The date format will be MM/DD/YYYY. I need to advance each date ahead by 4 years.
I imagine that I will need to select the correct workbook, search for the particular column, and then loop to iterate through each value underneath that column to advance it, but the day itself needs to stay the same. For example, if its 10/05/2017, it needs to be 10/05/2021. Any suggestions or help would be great. Thank you in advance.
Thank you for the help, I realize I wasn't very helpful at all with my question. I'm very new to VB script and excel macros in general. I hadn't gotten how to search for the column itself as I would like it find the column no matter what the column value is (possibly search for a cell that says "Date" through the entire sheet?, I was just trying to add the 4 years to start with and couldn't find the function I needed. This is what I had from what I derived and seems like this is very wrong ha.
Do Until IsEmpty(ActiveCell)
Set ThisCell = ActiveCell
ThisCell = DateAdd("yyyy", 4, ColumnValueHere)
' Step down 1 row from present location.
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
You'll be wanting the DateAdd function
Try something like this:
Sub AddDates()
Dim lastRow as integer
Dim theSheetImWorkingOn as worksheet
Dim theColumnNumberForTheDates as integer
theColumnNumberForTheDates = 5 ' change this to be the column number you want
Set theSheetImWorkingOn = Sheets("Put your sheet name here")
lastRow = theSheetImWorkingOn.Cells(1000000, theColumnNumberForTheDates ).End(xlUp).row
For x = 2 to lastRow ' assuming your data starts on row 2
theSheetImWorkingOn.Cells(x, theColumnNumberForTheDates) = DateAdd("yyyy", 4, theSheetImWorkingOn.Cells(x, theColumnNumberForTheDates))
Next x
End Sub

sumif code returns error when using column number?

I have a quick question... not sure what I am doing wrong.
I would like to have a named range (single cell) updated with the value from a sumif based on data in another tab of excel. the formula should go through column 2 look for the date and sum any values in column 10.
even when I substitute out the columns with actual hard column letters, I am getting error 1004 method range of object worksheet failed. how can I re-code this to pick up sumif data from another tab?
here is my code
with data_ws
date = #5/13/2014#
[named_range] = worksheetfunction.sumif(.range(.columns(2)), date, _
.range(.columns(10))
end with
You are close and may have an idea from below why yours are not working:
Sub TestSumIf()
Dim oRngA As Range, oRngB As Range
With ActiveCell
.ClearContents
Set oRngA = .Columns(2).EntireColumn ' 1st EntireColumn on the right
Set oRngB = .Columns(3).EntireColumn ' 2nd EntireColumn on the right
.Value = WorksheetFunction.SumIf(oRngA, Date, oRngB)
End With
End Sub
Sample:

How to find and select the last column in VBA?

I am trying to create an excel macro which finds the last column of a sheet and then selects the entire column. However, this column will always be different- some days it will be column 'H', other days will be column 'GX' as the data in the sheet is constantly updated. So far I have seen how you can find the last column and then delete it, but it specifically refers to that certain column once the macro runs again. I need it to always refer to the last column, no matter what column that may be. Thanks!
Here is the code. I am new to VBA, etc. and this was created through the macro recorder and other things I found online so bear with me!
`Sub Macro11()
Sheets("Sheet25").Cells(1, 1).Activate
ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell).Select
lastCol = ActiveCell.Column
Columns("W:W").Select
Selection.Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End Sub`
Here is the sample code
Avoid using Select /Activate in your code. To know why refer this link
Sub Macro11()
Dim LastCol As Long
With ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet25")
LastCol = .Cells(1, .Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column
.Columns(LastCol).Delete
End With
End Sub