I am a beginner in VBA programming.
Description: The left table is the 'reference table'
Objective: Fill up the 'Type' col of right table using macro
How: Write a macro that go through the 'reference table' comparing col E (Descript) with keyword. If the cell in col E contain a specific key word, col F will automatically be assigned a category
P.S: What are the recommended websites that provide tutorial? Something like codecademy
So still stuck at correctly referencing table:
thanks for editing your answer to include the code. Next time please copy/paste it, rather than using an image, so that we don't have to type it all out ourselves if we need to test what you've written! I can see where you're at now, and I feel this will work you for. Basically, you need to cycle through the rows rather than the columns.
Rather than using a subroutine, I think a function will work better for you. That way you can embed it in your table, rather than having to run a subroutine each time.
Function getCategory(strInput As String)
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim x As Long
Set tbl = ActiveSheet.ListObjects("Table1")
For x = 1 To tbl.ListRows.Count
If InStr(strInput, tbl.ListRows(x).Range(x, 1)) Then
getCategory = tbl.ListRows(x).Range(x, 2)
Exit Function
End If
Next x
End Function
Then you can simply enter the formula in column F, e.g. in F2 enter
=getCategory(E2)
and copy/paste down for each row in your table.
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Wording my question is slightly tricky so I've included screen-shots to make this easier. I have 2 separate spreadsheets which are currently not linked together in anyway. What I've been asked to do is:
For the drop-downs which have a * next to them, have this * drop-down get converted into a acronym (I.e. If it's Home Visit *, then this will be converted to HV), and have it automatically entered into Cell Position X. Please refer to Image 1 then Image 2)
So the user would click on Sheet one, select the relevant drop-down field and then assign how much time that task took. The second sheet would then update itself with this information - it would insert the users name, program and activities. This is where it gets very tricky. Based off the drop-down selection, if it is asterisked (*), then based off the field-type it will convert it into a set acronym which would then be placed in one of the data fields based off the entry date that has been provided.
I designed both spread-sheets and they have macros in the background, but I can't seem to work out how to best perform this. Would you suggest a transpose function which checks firstly the date criteria and then an INDEX(MATCH) function to match the criteria against a pre-defined name-range which converts Home Visit etc. to HV automatically? I'm also unsure of how to insert delimiters for each new entry that is read. If anyone can provide help I would be very grateful.
I'm not 100% sure I understand your question, but here goes:
What about adding a Worksheet_Change event to look for changes in the drop-down's cell, and then converting it to an acronym?
Place the following code inside the sheet of interest:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
'If Cell A1 is changed, put the acronym into A2
If Target.Row = 1 And Target.Column = 1 Then
Cells(2, 1) = GetAcronym(Target.Value)
End If
End Sub
Function GetAcronym(TheText As String) As String
Dim result As String
Dim x As Long
'Always grab the first letter
result = Mid(TheText, 1, 1)
'Get the other letters
For x = 2 To Len(TheText) - 1
If Mid(TheText, x, 1) = " " Then result = result & Mid(TheText, x + 1, 1)
Next x
GetAcronym = UCase(result)
End Function
I have an excel table that calculates how many materials we need to order per job we are doing.
What I want to accomplish is to create a button that will copy the existing table on to page 2 of my excel workbook. The table is two columns wide. Therefore I would like to click the button, it copies the table thats on A and B of page 1 onto page 2 A and B. After having done so, I want excel to remember A and B are taken and next time I click the button, it goes in column C and D, then E and F and so on (always on page 2).
to explain why I would like this, I need to order 1000 sq ft of materials, but in sections. only 250 sq ft of materials at a time. So, I want to fill out how much im ordering, click the button and it saves the information of what was ordered on page 2. That way its easy to go back and see what was done, what date, how much was ordered, what is left to order, etc.
I know with numbers it would be easy by just incrementing i by two at every button click, but I dont know how to go about doing this for the excel columns (letters).
Is there some easy command I just cannot find online to do this sort of thing ?
Thanks for your help !
What you should learn in VBA and modify in this code below is how to determine the actual range of the table on Sheet1 -- instead of hard-coding it to "A1:B10"
UPDATE
Not sure why the previous version didn't work for you, but I've updated the code below to store the next column location in a helper cell to see if that works for you.
Option Explicit
Sub Button1_Click()
Dim srcTable As Range
Dim dstTable As Range
Dim nextLoc As Range
Set srcTable = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:B10")
Set nextLoc = Sheets("Sheet2").Range("A20")
'--- if this is your first copy, then cell A1 should be empty
If IsEmpty(Sheets("Sheet2").Range("A1").Value) Then
Set dstTable = Sheets("Sheet2").Range("A1:B10")
nextLoc.Value = 3 'next location is column 3
Else
'--- we're adding the next table...
Set dstTable = Sheets("Sheet2").Cells(1, nextLoc.Value)
nextLoc.Value = nextLoc.Value + 2
End If
srcTable.Copy dstTable
End Sub
I'll do my best to try and explain my problem, but it's still a bit fuzzy in my mind so this might not be as clear as it should be, for which I apologize in advance.
Here's the part of my code I'm having trouble with:
If Application.WorksheetFunction.countif(Range("D:D"), Cells(x, firstcolumn).Value) _
And Application.WorksheetFunction.countif(Range("F:F"), Cells(x, firstcolumn).Value) _
And Application.WorksheetFunction.countif(Range("H:H"), Cells(x, firstcolumn).Value) Then
The idea behind this project is to check if the values in "Cells(x, firstcolumn)" are present in columns D, F and H at the same time, and then paste the values somewhere else.
However the number of columns to check for the "Cells(x, firstcolumn)" values could be changed, so values would need to be checked in any number of columns (2, 10 etc). My code works perfectly for the specified Ranges but if one is missing or more are added then it stops working.
The columns to check against are always offset by 2 from the firstcolumn and firstcolumn is always B, it will be checked against D, F, H and so on while columns C,E,G etc have other data not relevant for this part.
My best guess is to have the countif Ranges changed dynamically but I'm at a loss of when and how this should be done...
Could anyone point me towards the right direction in order to achieve this? I can post the full code if needed.
Cheers!
You need to extract a function here. Something like this:
Private Function IsPresentInRange(ByVal source As Range, ByVal value As Variant) As Boolean
IsPresentInRange = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(source, value) > 0
End Function
And then you need a way to figure out what ranges you need to give it for a source parameter - that can be a function of its own, or you can hard-code them somewhere; basically you want to have a concept of a group of ranges to call that function with - this would be the simplest:
Private Function GetSourceRanges() As Collection
Dim result As New Collection
result.Add Range("D:D")
result.Add Range("F:F")
result.Add Range("H:H")
'maintain this list here
Set GetSourceRanges = result
End Function
Ideally you would have some logic coded there, so that you don't need to manually add ranges to that collection every time.
And then you can just iterate these ranges and determine if you get a count > 0 for all of them:
Dim sources As Collection
Set sources = GetSourceRanges
Dim result As Boolean
result = True
Dim sourceRange As Range
For Each sourceRange In sources
result = result And IsPresentInRange(sourceRange, Cells(x, firstcolumn).Value)
Next
If result Then
' whatever you had in that If block
End If
This is my first time using VBA for Excel (I usually code Java and C++), and I was hoping to get some tips to start out.
I want to write a macro for a large data set that will proceed through the following list of conditions to provide a dollar result:
Collect unit size from column A (Possible values 0-8)
Determine whether single or family unit from Column B (Single- 1, Family- 0)
Collect utility code from Column C (code for type of product being assessed)
From this information, a new value will be placed in the row which determines utility costs by taking into account unit size, type of unit, and the product in question. I have thought about using nested Select Case or nested conditionals in a loop, but overall I am pretty lost.
It seems like a worksheet formula might do the trick, but it's hard to tell without knowing what the calculation is. Below is a user-defined function (UDF) that you would put in a standard module. You would call it from a cell like:
=computecosts(A2,B2,C2)
Obviously the code would change depending on how your data is laid out and what your calculation is.
Public Function ComputeCosts(rSize As Range, rFamily As Range, rCode As Range) As Double
Dim lSizeFactor As Long
Dim lFamilyFactor As Long
Dim dCodeFactor As Double
Dim rFound As Range
Const lFAMILY As Long = 0
'Size factor is a function of 0-8, namely adding 1
lSizeFactor = rSize.Value + 1
'Family factor is computed in code
If rFamily.Value = lFAMILY Then
lFamilyFactor = 3
Else
lFamilyFactor = 2
End If
'Code factor is looked up in a different sheet
Set rFound = Worksheets("Sheet2").Columns(1).Cells.Find(rCode.Value, , xlValues, xlWhole)
If Not rFound Is Nothing Then
dCodeFactor = rFound.Offset(0, 1).Value
End If
'do the math
ComputeCosts = lSizeFactor * lFamilyFactor * dCodeFactor
End Function
Thanks for the responses, they were helpful in understanding VBA for Excel. I just ended up putting possible values in a table and then using Match functions within an Index function to pick out the right value.
I am working in excel with a datasheet that is 1000 rows and 15 columns. Currently, in one of the columns, I have a lot of data mixed in with people names (see below for an example). I want to see how many times each person's name appears in the datasheet, so I can use it in a pivot table. There is no particular format or order to the way names appear. It is random. Is there a way to code in excel to search through that whole column and give me a count of the amount of times each person's name appears?
Column D
21421Adam14234
2323xxx Bob 66
23 asjdxx Jacob 665
43 Tim 5935539
2394Bob 88
After some trial and error, I can generate a list of names, one per row and place them in a different column for comparison sake, if that makes it easier.
I know you have got your answer but why not use COUNTIF with Wild Cards? You don't need VBA for this :)
See this example
=COUNTIF($A$1:$A$5,"*"&C1&"*")
SNAPSHOT
You don't have VBA tagged, but I don't know if there is a way to do this without it. I've built a custom function below. To implement it, take the following steps.
1) List desired names starting at column E1.
2) Insert this function into VBA Editor
A) Presss Alt + F11
B) Click Insert > Module from menu bar
C) Copy this code into Module
Option Explicit
Function findString(rngString As Range, rngSearch As Range) As Long
Dim cel As Range
Dim i As Integer
i = 0
For Each cel In rngSearch
If InStr(1, cel.Text, rngString.Value) > 0 Then
cel.offset(,-1) = rngString.Value 'places the name in cell to right of search range
i = i + 1
End If
Next
findString = i
End Function
3) In F1 type the following formula
=findstring(E1,$D$1:$D$5)
4) Run the formula down column F to get the count of each desired name.