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
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I have a VBA formula that works when I use the ActiveCell.Formula2R1C1 function, which I used to test that I could get the result I want. This works as it should, giving me a comma delimited list.
ActiveCell.Formula2R1C1 = "=SUBSTITUTE(ARRAYTOTEXT(FILTER(VendSelect1,VendSelect3=LEFT(R[-7]C[-3],6))),LEFT(R[-7]C[-3],6) & "","","""")"
VendSelect1 and VendSelect3 are named ranges from a table in another tab
I am wanting to use the result of this formula as a string to use in a Data Validation list. The reason to go this route is the list will be dynamic based on a value that is entered in another cell, so the list will vary. I have the code for creating the Data Validation working, I just need to get the result of the above equation to be stored as a variable for that code.
I have tried using the Evaluate function to store the result but when I try to put that value in a cell to test that it is working, I get a #VALUE error in the cell. Is this just more complicated a formula than Evaluate can handle? Or am I doing something wrong? I am open to other suggestions to accomplish the same thing but I'm not a VBA expert and this has been the best thing I have found, so far, to accomplish this. Here is the code I have that is giving me the #VALUE error in cell D14.
Sub Test()
Dim FormTest As Variant
FormTest = Evaluate("=FILTER(VendSelect1,VendSelect3=LEFT(R[-7]C[-3],6))")
Range("D14") = FormTest
End Sub
I've been trying to get this to work for about 2 days and this seems to be the last obstacle to getting what I am wanting to do.
Thank you, in advance.
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
I'm recording a macro to automate some Excel reports and have encountered the following bug whenever I try and run an iserror(search) formula:
Run-time error '1004': Application-defined or object-defined error
I have two lists. The formula iterates through the first list and compares the values with those of the second list, hiding any matching values.
The formula in Excel is like this only with a wider criteria range:
=AND(ISERROR(SEARCH($B$3212,B2)),ISERROR(SEARCH($B$3213,B2)))
It works perfectly when I insert the formula directly into the spreadsheet cell however I get an error when I record and later run the macro using the same formula.
EDIT 2
I got the formula insertion to work through the macro but now I cannot filter the data as before, even when I do it manually without the macro.
Below is a link to a picture giving an example of the type of lookup I'm trying to achieve, previously it worked perfectly and removed all the rows which contained a string from the 'to remove list' now I cannot get it to filter at all. I've tried removing the macro after saving in notepad in case the file had become corrupted but it still does not filter as before. What could be causing this?
This is how the lookup works
Cell [A13] would contain the aforementioned ISERROR formula in this example.
This formula doesn't translate well to VBA in its current form. You should use the VBA Instr function instead of the worksheet function Search.
Function FindSubstring() As Boolean
Dim rngFindText As Range
Dim rngWithinText As Range
Set rngFindText = Sheet1.Range("B3212")
Set rngWithinText = Sheet1.Range("B2")
FindSubstring = InStr(rngWithinText, rngFindText)
End Function
Sub foobar()
Debug.Print FindSubstring
End Sub
You are asking Excel a question to tell you to find the contents of $B$3212 in B2 and to find if again.
Usually the SEARCH is used to find the contents of one thing in another, by using it again the AND statement you are asking it again ... and for what?
Hence the question does not make sense.
What I think you might be asking if just once and if there is an error meaning it did not find it there in this instance for it to return 0.
=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH($B$3212,B2)),0,SEARCH($B$3212,B2))
I figured this one out, the original 1004 error was caused by vba only partially recording the formula, the solution involved simply going into the debugger to find which line hadn't been translated correctly and editing that line. I then had to edit the formula so as to be able to filter out values acording to my criteria and ended up with a formula closer to this:
=AND(ISERROR(SEARCH("Value1",B2)), ISERROR(SEARCH("Value2",B2)))
I’m trying to have a quite complicated Sum if function more reliable. The situation is that I’m using that formula (see below) to sum values between two dates from a separate sheet in the workbook.
=SUMIFS(wochen!$F11:$BM11;wochen!$F$8:$BM$8;">="&DATE(YEAR(T$8);1;1);wochen!$F$8:$BM$8;"<="&DATE(YEAR(T$8);MONTH(T$8);DAY(T$8)))
The handicap is that I was hoping to implement some Kind of Lookup function or match function to always get the values from the correct row.
So far the sum_range is static and I can’t make sure its picking the correct line.
I already played around with this kind Address / Match Function
=ADDRESS(MATCH($B13;'F_P&L'!$B$1:$B$267;0);MATCH(T$6;'F_P&L'!$F$6:$CP$6;0);;;"wochen!")
into that Sum_Range of the Sum If Formular but that doesn’t work either as it comes out as Text
I’m happy for any Idea which van be implemented via excel Formulas or VBA
I hope I explained everything clear, if not I'm happy to provide more information's
Many Thanks in Advance
Dennis
Here is a simple example which you can extend to your case. It uses the =INDIRECT() formula.
If you know through some way what the correct rows are, say you know your range of interest is in line 11, ...
Put the following in a cell
A1: = 11 ' You can use VLOOKUP etc. to generate the row number
B1: = "F" & A1 & ":BM"&A1 ' That makes B1 read: F11:BM11
C1: = SUM(INDIRECT(B1)) ' This will make it the equivalent of writing =SUM(F11:BM11)
Writing =function(INDIRECT(*anything*)) where *anything* is a string describing the address of a range is the equivalent of writing =function(** selecting the range **)
Note on Performance: Do note, however, that INDIRECT is a volatile functions so any changes in the workbook with calculations set to automatic will cause it to recalculate. So there might be performance implications in certain cases.
I am a pilot, and use a logbook program called Logten Pro. I have the ability to take excel spreadsheets saved from my work flight management software, and import them into Logten Pro using the CSV format.
My problem however, is that the work flight management software, exports the date and time of take-off of a flight into one cell in the following excel format: DD/MM/YYYY H:MM:SS PM.
This is handled fine by Excel, and is formatted by default to DD/MM/YY even though the actual value is more specific, comprising of the full length date and time group.
This is a problem because Logten Pro will only auto-import the date if it is in DD/MM/YY format, and there is no way to pull out just the displayed DD/MM/YY date rather than the full date time group actual value, unless you manually go through and delete the extra text from the function box.
My question is: Is there a VBA macro that can automatically copy the actual displayed text, and paste it into another cell, changing the actual value as it does, to just the DD/MM/YY value? Additionally, can this be made to work down a whole column rather than individual cells at a time?
Note I have no VBA experience so the perfect answer would just be a complete VBA string I could copy and paste.
Thank You.
As pointed out in the comments, you'd better not use VBA but formulas instead.
This formula:
TEXT(A1,"dd-mm-yyy")
will return the formated date in a text way. You can drag and drop the formula in the whole range of your cells and Copy/Paste Special > Values so that you will only have the needed values to get imported in Logten Pro.
There are three options using formulas.
Rounddown
Excel stores the date time as a number and uses formatting to display it as a date.
The format is date.time, where the integer is the date and the fraction is the time.
As an example
01/01/2012 10:30:00 PM is stored as 40909.9375
All the values after the decimal place relate to the hours and minutes
So a formula could be used to round the number down to a whole number.
=ROUNDDOWN(A1,0)
Then format the value as a short date.
It will then display as 01/01/2012
INT
As above, but using a different formula to get rid of the fraction (time)
=INT(A1)
Text
Alternately the date only could be extracted as text using this formula
=TEXT(A1,"dd/mm/yyyy")
It will then display as 01/01/2012
I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but recently came across this as was searching for answers to a similar problem.
Here is the answer I finally came up with.
Option Explicit
Sub ValuesToDisplayValues()
Dim ThisRange As Range, ThisCell As Range
Set ThisRange = Selection
For Each ThisCell In ThisRange
ThisCell.Value = WorksheetFunction.Text(ThisCell.Value, ThisCell.NumberFormat)
Next ThisCell
End Sub
This answers the question as asked, apart from the new values are pasted over the existing ones, not into a new cell, as there is no simple way to know where you would want the new values to be pasted. It will work on the whole range of selected cells, so you can do a whole column if needed.