Cells, Cell Selection and Ranges in VBA coding (#coding) This page is a conglomeration of aspects of cell related coding

snipets. Currently this page remains NOINDEX Cells, last used or next free in a column (#next) last cell in column A within the same region as cell A1: Range("A1").End(xlDown) last cell even with empty cells in the column you could use Range("A65535").End(xlUp).select '-- Example only Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Select Cells(Rows.Count,1).End(xlUp).Select '-- preferred usage Use of xldown xlup xltoRight xltoLeft Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.End(xldown)).Select The use of 65536 to identify the last row is for illustration purposes only, do not code constants into a program as the last row and hopefully the last column can and will change between versions of Excel. Instead use Rows.Count and Columns.Count -- For examples of these in macros with toolbar icons see Toolbars page. Last used row in column A: => 8 Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row Worksheets("sheet1").Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row

Next available empty row in column A: => 9 Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row + 1 Worksheets("sheet1").Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row + 1

xlDown looks for the first empty cell it finds and returns the last used row before that first empty cell, so:

'Last used row before the first empty cell: => 3 Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").End(xlDown).Row

'First empty cell in column A => 4 Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").End(xlDown).Row + 1

If you want to find the last possible row all the way down column A, use xlUp.

ActiveCell.End(xlDown) Range("A1").End(xlDown) As improbable as it seems you can do something similar with a Worksheet Function. The following array formula [ctrl+Shift+enter] will provide the row number for the last cell in Column A. Dave Perterson 2001-12-23 in Worksheet.Functions =MAX(IF(ISBLANK(A1:A1000),"",ROW(A1:A1000))) Last Column in a Row Last cell even with empty cells in the row you could use

Range("A256").End(xlLeft).select

Range("A" & Columns.Count).End(xlLeft).Select

Cells(1,Columns.Count).End(xlLeft).Select Columns 16 through end (#select)

Columns("P:IV").Select

Range(Cells(1, 16), Cells(1, Columns.Count)).EntireColumn.Select Identification of the last cell address -- varies with different versions MsgBox Cells(Rows.Count, Columns.Count).Address '-- i.e. IV65536 or TT2000000 in Excel 12. Copying specific cells on specific sheets to ... (#hardcoded) Dim rng as Range

set rng = worksheets("Dest").Cells(rows.count,1).end(xlup)(2) worksheets("Sheet1").Range("D24").Copy Destination:=rng Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("F23").Copy Destination:=rng.offset(0,1) Top Left cell / Bottom Right Cell in a Selection (#topleft) Addresses for the range, the top left cell and the bottom right cell within a selection event for testing. Option Explicit Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range) MsgBox Selection.Address & Chr(10) _ & Selection.Item(1).Address & Chr(10) _ & Selection.Item(Selection.Count).Address End Sub All four corners: Msgbox "TopLeft: " & Selection.Cells(1).Address _ &" TopRIght: " & _

Selection.Cells(1, Selection.Columns.Count).Address _ & Chr(10) & "BotLeft " & Selection.Cells(Selection.Rows.Count, 1).Address _ &" BotRight " & Selection.Cells(Selection.Cells.Count).Address

Deletions (#deletions) Deletion of Columns and Rows 'Delete Columns Range("C:C,E:G,I:I,K:K,M:S,U:U,W:W,Y:Y").Delete xlToLeft

'Delete Rows Range("14:400").Delete an example

Some test coding leading up to the Isolate_selection macro

GoTo skip_over Range("A1:M30").Select Application.Run "personal.xls!MarkCells" Range("a1:g10, j12:k12").Select

'GoTo skip_over MsgBox Selection.Areas.Count & " in " & Selection.Address MsgBox ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Address & " -- Used Range address" MsgBox Selection.Address & " -- " & Selection.Areas(1).Address MsgBox Selection.Count & " -- " & Selection.Areas(1).Count MsgBox Selection.Areas(1)(Selection.Areas(1).Count).Address

MsgBox ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Address MsgBox Cells.SpecialCells(xlLastCell).Column MsgBox Cells(Rows.Count, Columns.Count).Address & " -- lastcell address"

skip_over: Dim shouldsee As String Dim rng1_address As String, rng2_address As String The MarkCells macro can be found at join.htm#markcells and the code at code/join.txt Isolate_Seletion -- delete everythin not in First area (#isolate_seletion) Sub Isolate_selection() 'Delete all cells not within the first or only selection area

'David McRitchie, excel.misc, cells.htm 2005-11-17

Dim shouldsee As String Dim rng1_address As String, rng2_address As String shouldsee = Selection.Areas(1).Address(0, 0) Range(shouldsee).Select '-- identify top left cell and bottom right cell of area to be kept rng1_address = Range(Selection(1)(1)).Address rng2_address = Range(Selection.Areas(1)(Selection.Areas(1).Count).Address) On Error Resume Next 'important if no rows and/or columns before seletion '-- delete rows below Selection.areas(1) ... Range(Range(rng2_address).row + 1 & ":" & Cells.Rows.Count).Delete '-- delete columns to right of Selection.areas(1) ... ' Range(Range(rng2_address).Offset(0, 1) & ":IV65536").EntireColumn.Delete Range(Range(rng2_address).Offset(0, 1).Address & ":" & _ Cells(Rows.Count, Columns.Count).Address).EntireColumn.Delete '-- delete columns to left of selection.areas(1) ... Range("a1:" & Range(rng1_address).Offset(0, -1)).EntireColumn.Delete '-- delete rows before selection.areas(1) ... Range("A1:" & Range(rng1_address).Offset(-1, 0)).EntireRow.Delete

MsgBox "you should see your original " & should see ' ActiveWorkbook.Save '-- fix last cell End Sub Deletion Related (#deletion-related)

Delete rows and columns past the active cell http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/lastcell.htm#MakeLastCell Reduce the size of the workbook by eliminating the rows and columns past the actual data, where the last cell indication Ctrl+End is incorrect. "Why do my scrollbars go to row 500 -- my data ends in cell E50?" http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#Unused Delete the rows and columns outside of a single selection area. See example within this topic. Leave the single selection area intact but clear the contents but not delete cells outside a selection(s). would be similar to the macro here but would clearcontents instead of delete rows and columns. Identification of the current region [Ctrl+SHIFT+*], could be used as a selection. but you'd probably not have complete control of what you are working with.

Cell Navigation (#navigation) Options tools, options, Edit, [x] move selection after entry -- Down/right/up/left From one cell to a specific cell

Cell protection will guide you to next unprotected cell Select a group of cells, use Enter or Tab key Select individual cells with help of the Ctrl key, and Tab key will follow the sequence they were laid down. Example: Select A1,B2,C3,D4,E5,D6,C7,B8,A9, TabKey, then in Name box enter "MyEntry". When you enter "MyEntry" into name box at a later time the sequence will be laid out for you.