Excel/VBA - Extracting a range of rows from a selected sheet to a new book - vba

Question

I'm trying to build a new VBA function for Excel. I've got a book of sheets with a front page that always loads first, on this page I've got a combo box that lists all the other sheets in the book and a nice extract button that will pull out the chosen sheet to a new book. (Thanks to those here who helped with that). Now I need a new function that will use the same combo box, but instead only extract a small subset of the chosen sheet.
Unfortunately, that subset isn't on the same rows for every sheet, nor is the number of rows the same (so one sheet, the subset might be 10 rows, on another it might be 12, on another it might be 20, etc etc etc).
On the plus side, there are merged rows (from column A to G) at the start and end of each subset - with specific text, which could be used to search for.
After some back and forth, I've got a better bit of code that I think is almost working:
Sub ZCPS_Extract()
Dim StartRow
Dim EndRow
Dim Zws As Worksheet
Dim wbkOriginal As Workbook
Set wbkOriginal = ActiveWorkbook
StartRow = 1
EndRow = 1
'sets site details into the header of the ZCPS checksheet
Worksheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value).Range("B3").Value = Worksheets("front page").Range("E6")
Worksheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value).Range("D3").Value = Worksheets("front page").Range("N6")
Worksheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value).Range("F3").Value = Worksheets("front page").Range("K6")
Set Zws = Sheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value)
'selects ZCPS block from select estate sheet
StartRow = (Zws.Cells.Find("**** ZCPS Installation").Row) + 1
EndRow = (Zws.Cells.Find("**** Aztec Hotfixes").Row) - 1
'copy above block and paste into Z-MISC starting at row 5
Worksheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value).Range(Cells(StartRow, 1), Cells(EndRow, 7)).Copy Worksheets("Z-MISC").Range("A5")
With ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Z-MISC")
.Copy
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs _
"C:\temp\" _
& ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Z-MISC").Cells(3, 2).Text _
& " ZCPS CheckSheet " _
& Format(Now(), "DD-MM-YY") _
& ".xlsm", _
xlOpenXMLWorkbookMacroEnabled, , , , False
End With
'code to close the original workbook to prevent accidental changes etc
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
wbkOriginal.Close
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
It's error on the line for copying, I'm getting a runtime error of "Application-defined or object-defined error" which to my limited knowledge isn't helping me. Any assistance/pointers/suggestions are welcomed.

Answer 1

Sub ismerged()
Dim start As Integer, finish As Integer
For i = 1 To Range("A655").End(3).Row + 1
If Cells(i, "A").MergeCells = True Then
start = i
Exit For
End If
Next
For i = start To Range("A655").End(3).Row + 1
If Cells(i, "A").MergeCells = True Then
finish = i
End If
Next
MsgBox start
MsgBox finish
End Sub
Then I guess you can select your data as you wish.

Answer 2

I'm not sure about the way you reference your sheet. I will assume 'comboboxvalue' contains the name or the number of the sheet you are selecting. Your code should be something like the following.
Sub Z_Extract()
Dim StartRow
Dim EndRow
Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = Sheets(comboboxvalue)
StartRow = ws.Cells.Find("**** ZC").Row
EndRow = ws.Cells.Find("****").Row
'Im assuming you have values up to column G
ws.Range(ws.Cells(StartRow, 1), Cells(EndRow, 7)).Copy
'Now that you have the correct Range selected you can copy it to your new workbook
'SelectedRange.Copy Etc.....
'Cleanup
Set ws = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 3

Got it working.
Set Zws = Sheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value)
'selects ZCPS block from selected estate sheet
StartRow = (Zws.Cells.Find("**** ZCPS Installation").Row)
EndRow = (Zws.Cells.Find("**** Aztec Hotfixes").Row) - 1
'copy above block and paste into Z-MISC starting at row 10
Sheets(Sheet1.CmbSheet.Value).Activate
ActiveSheet.Range(Cells(StartRow, 1), Cells(EndRow, 7)).Select
Selection.Copy
Sheets("Z-MISC").Select
Range("A10").Select
ActiveSheet.Paste