I have a problem with VBA code. I have a sheet with a lot of data around the cells I want. I need to select data in column F, but the position of the first and last cells between the range is to be selected is changing up and down. I created the non empty cells in row X where there is no data do the LastRow function has any refernece but now I dont know how to select the first row
thx for help
If F1 is empty, this selects the first cell with data in the F column
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("F1").End(xlDown).Select
If F1 may be non-empty you can add a check to see whether it contains text.
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Example:
I have a cell "A1" that sums up some values in a row "IF"-something: =SUM.IF($C$5:$C$10;"Blue";$D$5:$D$10)
meaning: If columns C5 to C10 contains the word "Blue" in any row for example. "C7" and "C9", then the sum of "D7" and "D9" will be shown in "A1".
My problem:
If I insert a new row "5", then I want the formula to contain this row as well:
=SUM.IF($C$5:$C$11;"Blue";$D$5:$D$11)
But what happens is that the formula is now:
=SUM.IF($C$6:$C$11;"Blue";$D$6:$D$11)
So the formula contains only the original 5 rows "5-10" and now named "6-11".
How do I make excel expand the formula to include the new row aswell so it sums up from "5-11" =SUM.IF($C$5:$C$11;"Blue";$D$5:$D$11)?
(I know I can make this work with a table, but this is a thought example and not my real situation. Actually I insert 5 rows at a time, and some cells are merged, so I can't convert the range of data into a table)
Any help is greatly appreciated.
This can't be done. Set the row range reference in the formula to one row above you actual list, then everything should work.
For example, leave row 5 empty. Hide the row if you like. In cell A1, use the formula =SUMIF($C$5:$C$10,"Blue",$D$5:$D$10) (starting at row 5). Start entering values in row 6.
Now you can right-click Row 6 and Insert a new row, and the formula will continue to work as required.
I have a formula that will copy values from one column on Sheet B to another column on another Sheet A. What I'd like to do is highlight the cells that were copied on Sheet B and highlight the cells in Sheet A that are not on Sheet B, essentially the inverse of the first part. On Sheet B only columns G and H would be highlighted but Sheet A could be from column A to H.
=IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet2!G$3:G$7,MATCH(1,INDEX((Sheet2!$D$3:$D$7=$A3)*(Sheet2!$B$3:$B$7=$C3),),0)),G3)
You could set up conditional formatting with the same logic to change the colour or either the cell that you are setting or the one that you are copying from.
Beware: this kind of code can make your spreadsheet very slow if over used.
So in one range (sheet 2) , you would have conditional formatting set up to highlight the cell if
this match failed
MATCH(1,INDEX((Sheet2!$D$3:$D$7=$A3)*(Sheet2!$B$3:$B$7=$C3),),0)
In the other range (sheet 1 a:h)
you would highlight if ISERROR(INDEX(Sheet2!G$3:G$7,MATCH(1,INDEX((Sheet2!$D$3:$D$7=$A3)*(Sheet2!$B$3:$B$7=$C3),),0)))
has picked the value from sheet2
I may have incorrectly butchered your code, but you should get the idea. Where you currently have a range of values, select the range, insert the conditional formatting, but edit the range to only check the first cell, it will automatically increment for you (if you remove the appropriate $ signs)
conditional formatting intro
Example file So I have two sheets that each have lists of part numbers, plant where they come from and two columns on costs. What I need to do is scan them and if Sheet A and Sheet B both have a row with matching part numbers and the plant they come from, then A's two cost values are updated to match B's costs.
The next step is then to highlight all cells in Sheet A that are not on Sheet B and highlight all cells in Sheet B that were copied to Sheet A. I think this last part can be done at the same time the cell is being copied I'm just not sure how to do any of this.
This is a formula method.
Because you will not be changing all the values and I assume you want to keep those that do not have a match, then in an empty column next to the figures on sheet 1 put the following formula:
=IFERROR(INDEX(Sheet2!F$3:F$7,MATCH(1,INDEX((Sheet2!$D$3:$D$7=$A3)*(Sheet2!$B$3:$B$7=$C3),),0)),G3)
Then copy over one column and down the the end of the data.
The INDEX((Sheet2!$D$3:$D$7=$A3)*(Sheet2!$B$3:$B$7=$C3),) will create an array of 0 and 1's the same size as the data reference on sheet 2. In this instance it will create a 1 dimensional array that is 5 objects.
The position of these objects of 0 and 1 are relative to the rows. So for the first formula the return array will be {0,1,0,0,0} because only the second row of the data matches both the plant and the part number.
The MATCH(1,INDEX(...),0) then finds the first object in that array that is 1 and returns the relative position, in this case 2 as it is the second in the array.
The Outer INDEX(Sheet2!F$3:F$7,...) then returns the value in the range Sheet2!F$3:F$7 whose relative position is equal to the 2 passed from the MATCH(). So Sheet2!F4.
If no MATCH is found then the whole thing will throw a #N/A error so we capture that error with IFERROR(...,G3) and tell the formula to return the value in column G instead.
This will give you all the proper values:
Then you can copy and paste just the values back to the original spots and hide the columns with the formulas:
Sheet2 for reference:
If you want vba to do the last part of copy and past and hiding then use the macro recorder and then clean up the code.
I need some help.
What I need is a code for colorid the Grid in Excel in this way:
find the first cell with value ( 1 )
find the last cell with value ( 2 )
range (1:2)
Color the grid black
My code by now:
'Color the columns A to K and ALL the rows below, no matter if they have a value or not.
xlWorkSheet.Range(xlWorkSheet.Cells(1, 1), xlWorkSheet.Cells(xlWorkSheet.Rows.Count, 11)).Borders.ColorIndex = 0
I need to change the color of not-empty rows .
THX
Find the first cell :
You should active the first cell (A1) and use IsEmpty function.
Then you loop in the same column until you find a cell containing a value.
By the way, you need to keep the number of this row for the second point.
Find the last cell :
You have to exit your loop when it finds a new empty row. Then you'll get the range of cells using the number of first and last row.
You can check the MSDN - "Empty Cells" to get more details.
I hope somebody can help me; I've been trying to figure out how to do this all day long.
I have one sheet with a list with corresponding values, e.g. Columns A, B, C make a group of values that have to be together.
In another sheet, I have some values from Column A, but not all of them, and want to automatically add the corresponding columns B and C to it.
So I thought about making a macro that copies the first value from Column A in the incomplete sheet, searches for it in the reference sheet, copies the corresponding values from B and C, pastes them next to A in the incomplete sheet, then copies the next value from A and searches for it in the reference table, and so on...
I tried but couldn*t make it work - any ideas? I've wasted way too much time on that problem already! Would do it by hand but have like 40,000 rows of data.
If you know how to do it, help would be MUCH appreciated.
Based on these assumptions:
Complete data is in Sheet1, columns A:C starting at row 2 (Headings in row 1)
Incomplete data in sheet2, column A starting at row 2 (Headings in row 1)
put this formula in sheet2 cell B2
=VLOOKUP($A2,Sheet1!$A:$C,2,0)
put this formula in sheet2 cell C2
=VLOOKUP($A2,Sheet1!$A:$C,3,0)
copy these formula down for as many rows as you have data
you can leave the formulas in place, or copy paste values to make permanent