I'm building a function that takes a column number as an input to return the highest value in the column.
I need to work with an entire column with a column index number. The following code works but I need an index number instead of using "B:B" to reference the column.
Set rng = Range("B:B")
When I use the following code, everything seems to break down. It always returns a 0 even though the highest number is 44. Can you see what I am doing wrong? It worked perfectly when I used "B:B" as a range.
Set rng = Range(Columns(2),Columns(2))
It doesn't seem to recognize anything in the range. Any help would be awesome!
Try this
Sub Sample()
Dim Rng As Range
'~~> This will let you work with Col B
Set Rng = Columns(2)
'~~> This will give you the Max in that column
MsgBox Application.WorksheetFunction.Max(Rng)
End Sub
This is from a solution I found a while back:
Dim x, y As Int
Dim rng As Range
x = 1 ' For A
y = 4 ' For D
Set rng = Columns(Chr(64 + x) & ":" & Chr(64 + y))
Source: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/114025-visual-basic-applications-select-multiple-columns-using-column-number.html
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I'm working on an assignment that requires the solution use VBA, so I can't use indexing or other options on the worksheet page... I've looked all over for an answer, maybe I'm just asking the question incorrectly.
In column K there are ticker symbols, i.e. A, ABM, etc.
In column L there is an number (I've been classifying as Long)
I want to put the highest number in column L in Range("O2") and the tag that is one column to the left in Range("N2").
I've found numerous ways to identify the high number in column L, but can not figure out how to return the adjacent cells value...
Here is the most recent code that I've been trying which is not working. When I remove the tag references the code runs fine, but I need the adjacent value too.
Thanks
Sub attempt38()
Dim sheet As Worksheet
Dim i As Long
Dim firstRow As Integer
Dim columnNumber As Integer
Dim max As Long
Dim tag As Long
firstRow = 2
columnNumber = 12
Set sheet = ActiveSheet
If sheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count <= 1 Then max = 0 Else max = sheet.Cells(2, 12)
For i = firstRow To 300
If sheet.Cells(i, 12) > max Then max = sheet.Cells(i, 12) & (tag = sheet.Cells(i, 11))
Next
sheet.Cells(3, 14) = max
sheet.Cells(4, 14).Value = tag
End Sub
You don't need VBA. You can just use regular excel.
=LARGE(L:L,1)
Will return the largest number.
To get the corresponding just use Index plus match.
=INDEX(K:K,MATCH(LARGE(L:L,1),L:L,FALSE),1)
If you really want to use VBA, adjust your code to be two lines like so:
For i = firstRow To 300
If sheet.Cells(i, 12) > max Then
max = sheet.Cells(i, 12)
tag = sheet.Cells(i, 11)
Endif
Next
Or if you want to look sophisticated:
For i = firstRow To 300
With sheet.Cells(i, 12)
If .Value > max Then
max = .Value
tag = .Offset(0,-1).Value
Endif
End With
Next i
Looping through a range can be time consuming and, in this case, also wasteful.
What if your max value actually exists in the first looped row? You will now loop through 299 rows for nothing.
The below method will be much faster and requires no loops.
Option Explicit
Sub Mad_Max()
Dim ws As Worksheet: Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")
Dim MyMax As Long, MaxCell As Range
MyMax = Application.WorksheetFunction.Max(ws.Range("L:L"))
Set MaxCell = ws.Range("L:L").Find(MyMax, Lookat:=xlWhole)
ws.Range("N3") = MyMax
ws.Range("N4") = MaxCell.Offset(, -1)
End Sub
Is it possible to offset to the right of a cell based on column headers? I have some code that loops through a range, and if it finds a specific value it will offset 12 columns to the right. Instead of saying Offset(,12), is there a way I can say offset to the right in that same row to the column with the header I want?
For example if column B is named "host" and my range is
rng = ws.range("B1:B20")
and column N is named "country", I don't want to write:
offset(,12).value = ...
Instead if there is something like:
offset(to column: country).value =...
The reason I ask for this is to not specific an offset number to make the code more resilient to any changes that may happen to my excel worksheet.
I hope the explanation is clear. thanks!
Try the Function below, will return the number of columns you need to Offset from your Rng to the "Header" you are looking for.
Option Explicit
Function OffesttoHeader(CurrentCol As Long, FindRng As Range, HeaderStr As String) As Long
Dim HeaderRng As Range
Set HeaderRng = FindRng.Find(what:=HeaderStr)
If Not HeaderRng Is Nothing Then
OffesttoHeader = HeaderRng.Column - CurrentCol + 1
Else
OffesttoHeader = -10000 ' raise to a large value >> as an error
End If
End Function
Test Sub Code (to test the function above):
Sub Test()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim Rng As Range
Dim NumberofCols As Long
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1") ' modify to your sheet's name
Set Rng = ws.Range("B1:B20")
' pass the following parameters:
' 1. Rng.column - in your case column B = 2
' 2. ws.Rows(1) - the Range to search for the Header, first row in ws worksheet
' 3. "Header" - the Header string you are searching for
NumberofCols = OffesttoHeader(Rng.Column, ws.Rows(1), "Header")
' raise an error message box
If NumberofCols = -10000 Then
MsgBox "Unable to find Header"
End If
End Sub
In order to obtain the solution you seek above, use the Range.Find Method.
'Column Number
Dim clmCountry as Integer
From here, we want to find the header by using the Range.Find Method
'to find the header
With ThisWorkbook.Sheets("SheetName")
'update the range if necessary
clmCountry = .Range("A1:Z1").Find("HeaderName").Column
End With
Once you've found the desired column, you may offset the following way:
... Offset(RowNum, clmCountry).Value = ...
I needed to get a column value out of a row defined as a Range.
Public Function ProcessOneLine(row As Range) As String
This works for me
row.Offset(0,2).Value2 ' returns the value in Column 3
row.Offset(1,Range("C1").Column).Value2 ' also returns the value in Column
So use something like this:
Dim srcColumn as String
Dim colPosn as Integer
srcColumn = "C"
colPosn = Range(srcColumn & "1").Column
cellValue = row.Offset(0,colPosn-1).Value2
I have the following method which finds the largest and smallest values in a range. I am then using those values to locate the actual cell they are in as I need to grab the value from the header cell of that column. The Range.Find is always returning Nothing even though the range being searched HAS A CELL WITH THAT VALUE.
Sub GetTopAndBottomFiveCommodities()
Dim tempRange As Range, x As Integer, bestPnL As Double, worstPnL As Double
Dim strTopRangeName As String, strBottomRangeName As String
Dim cCell As Range, commodityName As String
Set tempRange = dataSourceSheet.Range("A:A").Find(What:="Year Totals")
Set tempRange = Range(tempRange.Offset(0, 1), tempRange.End(xlToRight).Offset(0, -1))
For x = 1 To 5
strTopRangeName = "TopCommodity" & CStr(x)
strBottomRangeName = "BottomCommodity" & CStr(x)
bestPnL = WorksheetFunction.Large(tempRange, x)
worstPnL = WorksheetFunction.Small(tempRange, x)
Debug.Print tempRange.Address
' get the top commodity name and PnL
**Set cCell = tempRange.Find(What:=bestPnL, LookIn:=xlValues)**
commodityName = dataSourceSheet.Cells(5, cCell.Column).Value
Range(strTopRangeName).Value = commodityName
Range(strTopRangeName).Offset(0, 1).Value = bestPnL
Next x
End Sub
The code line
Set cCell = tempRange.Find(What:=bestPnL, LookIn:=xlValues)
is always returning nothing but I have verified that there are cells with that value. One example, the cell value is 66,152.61 (displayed in cell as 66,153) and the bestPnL variable is 66,152.61 , so I tried rounding bestPnL to 66,153, but still didn't find it. The debug statement is showing tempRange has the right range, so its not searching in the wrong place.
The only thing I can think of is the cell with the value, gets its value from a very long formula, using over a dozen named ranges, can this be fouling the find method?
Just so we all know I'm not crazy, here is a snapshot of part of the range I'm searching where I'm testing.
EDIT
Based on Tim Williams suggestion, I changed the number format of the range being searched prior to the Find call.
tempRange.NumberFormat = "0.00"
and then the Find call works as it should. I then just put the number format back the way I want it at the end of the routine.
tempRange.NumberFormat = "$#,##0;[Red]$#,##0"
Works as expected now.
Try removing the thousand separator from the number format on the cells. When I did that in a test range it worked fine, but with the separator it failed to find the value.
Set f = rng.Find(what:=bestPnL, LookIn:=xlFormulas)
will work even with the thousand separator (EDIT: only works with hard-coded values; fails with formulas).
EDIT2: this worked for me with a thousands separator and using formulas for the values (EDIT3!: does not work with currency formatting).
Sub Tester()
Dim f As Range, v, rng As Range
Set rng = Range("C3:C21")
v = Application.Large(rng, 3)
v = Format(v, rng.Cells(1).NumberFormat)
Set f = rng.Find(what:=v, LookIn:=xlValues)
Debug.Print f.Address ' >> C19
End Sub
This is an old question, but I found an alternative that can be effective and simple in some situations:
dim idx as long, rng as range
set rng = someRange
idx = application.WorksheetFunction.Match(1234,rng,0)
This will return the relative position of the FIRST 1234 valued cell in the provided range, independently of the formatting. The last 0 means you use an exact match.
Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("B2")
I have the above and would like to run a loop that changes the range I use/evaluate. I have tried variations of the following.
for x = 2 to 10
Set rng = Worksheets("No-Funding").Range(x & "2")
Next X
I have done some investigating and found this other Stack Overflow: Excel VBA Looping formula to change Range I can not make sense of it in this situation though.
My code will not work if it uses cells either, I have tried that and can only make it work with Range. Thanks for any help provided!
For a strictly numerical increment try,
Set rng = Worksheets("No-Funding").Cells(x, 2)
An xlA1 style reference can be achieved by factoring in the ASCII character.
Set rng = Worksheets("No-Funding").Range(Chr(64 + x) & 2)
Try this:
For x = 2 To 10
Set rng = Worksheets("No-Funding").Cells(2, x)
Next x
As far as I know it is no matter for VBA if you use function .Range or .Cells, since both of them return object or Range type.
Use
Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("B2").Offset(0,x)
to move to a different column. Better yet
Dim values as Variant, rng as Range
Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("B2").Resize(10,1)
values = rng.Values2
For i=1 to 10
values(i,1) = 2*values(i,1)
Next i
rng.Values2 = values
So I need to extract information from a sheet with only certain values. From about 550 rows down to 50 which are spread across the entire sheet.
So I used autofilter for that. Now I only see the rows which match to my criteria but how can I get the values of a specific range from?
This far I came:
I know that I have to use
RangeINamed.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
to work with only the visible information.
It worked for getting the starting and last row
startRow = bulkbatchRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).row
endRow = startRow + bulkbatchRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).rows.Count
But now I need to get the value of a specific column, I want to use a For loop so I can loop through all visible rows.
So I tried to do
RangeINamed.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).range("U" & rowNumber).value
That didn't work it gave me nothing. Now I'm rather clueless so does someone maybe know how I get the value of that row in column U in RangeINamed?
Thank you
You can always retrieve the value in a specific cell like U10 with:
Range("U10").Value
whether the row is hidden or not.
EDIT#1:
Here is a little example that loops down thru column A of an AutoFiltered table. It looks for the third visible row (not including the header row):
Sub GoDownFilter()
Dim rLook As Range, r As Range
Set rLook = Intersect(ActiveSheet.UsedRange, Range("A:A").Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible))
rLook.Select
K = 0
For Each r In rLook
If K = 3 Then
r.Select
MsgBox "The third visible row has been selected"
Exit Sub
End If
K = K + 1
Next r
End Sub
I think you need to choose if you want to get a specific cell like:
Range("U10").Value
Or a relative cell using something like
RangeINamed.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)(2,3).Value
Or
RangeINamed.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)(2,3).Address 'To see if you are getting it right
EDIT:
A complete code to Filter and Iterate.
Sub Filter()
Dim tableRange As Range, var, actualRow As Integer, lastRow As Integer
Set tableRange = Range("PUT_THE_TABLE_RANGE_HERE")
' Filter
With tableRange
Call .AutoFilter(5, "SPECIFIC_FILTER")
End With
Set f = tableRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
With tableRange
Call .AutoFilter(5)
End With
For Each var In f.Cells.Rows
actualRow = var.Row
If actualRow <> 1 Then
' Do something
End If
Next
End Sub