Excel VBA save range reference - excel

Question

I have a range of cells which I'm scanning if the cell has a formular or not.
When it does, I want to save the column letters and row numbers i.e. E14, E18, F18, N18 (Reference) do a dictionary.
Once I've looped through my specific range, I want to select the cells saved in the dictionary to later on delete all cells with formulas in the selected cells.
I am stuck with the part to safe the cell reference to the dictionary.
The range in the example is just an example range.
Sub check_formula_empty()
Dim cell As Range
Dim i As Integer
Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Range("E13:N19")
For i = 1 To rng.Cells.Count
If rng.Cells(i).HasFormula = True And rng.Cells(i).Offset(-6, 0) = "A" Then
'save reference range to Dictionary
ElseIf rng.Cells(i).HasFormula = False And rng.Cells(i).Offset(-6, 0) = "F" Then
rng.Cells(i).Offset(-4, 0).Copy _
Destination:=rng.Cells(i)
End If
Next
'Here I want to run the "Select my saved range from the Dictionary" and run "delete formulas"
End Sub

Answer 1

You can us a collection for this purpose. You are mentioning a dictionary but for your purpose a key is not that important, you only need a list of items (collection supports both)
Sub check_formula_empty()
Dim cell As Range
Dim i As Integer
Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Range("E13:N19")
dim reflist as Collection
Set reflist = new Collection
For i = 1 To rng.Cells.Count
If rng.Cells(i).HasFormula = True And rng.Cells(i).Offset(-6, 0) = "A" Then
'save reference range to Dictionary
refList.Add rng.Cells(i)
ElseIf rng.Cells(i).HasFormula = False And rng.Cells(i).Offset(-6, 0) = "F" Then
rng.Cells(i).Offset(-4, 0).Copy _
Destination:=rng.Cells(i)
End If
Next
'Here I want to run the "Select my saved range from the Dictionary" and run "delete formulas"
Dim oneCell as Range
foreach oneCell in refList
oneCell.Value = vbEmpty
next
End Sub
As you can see we first add the complete cell to the collectdion (it is a referenced object) and later you can use it in the foreach loop to your liking with all its properties

Answer 2

So I was working on resolving the issue to run the VBA faster than looping 2-3x through each column.
My current issue, which I struggle to resolve is: that the defined range "nof" or "DBRW" keeps to increase, which when resolving my final code (delete or copy formula to the Union ranges), the whole Union ranges are selected and therefore formulars are overwritten for the full range, instead of looping from column to column and using the defined formula in that column, which is available in a fixed row (Cells(6, n)).
Option Explicit
Sub Test3()
Dim i As Integer
Dim n As Integer
Dim x As Integer
Dim DBRW As Range
Dim DBRWrange(1 To 32) As Range
Dim nof As Range
Dim nofRange(1 To 32) As Range
Dim rangef As Range
For n = 5 To 6
For i = 13 To 20
If Cells(i, n).HasFormula = True And Cells(7, n) = "A" Then
Set DBRWrange(i) = Cells(i, n)
If DBRW Is Nothing Then
Set DBRW = DBRWrange(i)
Else
Set DBRW = Union(DBRW, DBRWrange(i))
End If
ElseIf Cells(i, n).HasFormula = False And Cells(7, n) = "F" Then
Set nofRange(i) = Cells(i, n)
If nof Is Nothing Then
Set nof = nofRange(i)
Else
Set nof = Union(nof, nofRange(i))
End If
End If
Next i
Set rangef = Cells(6, n)
rangef.Copy nof
'Ranges in nof and DBRW are kept (incremented), is there a way to "refresh" the Union reference, to restart creating the range from after this step?
Next n
End Sub
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Answer 3

so I have solved my issue and for future googlers, this might be helpful :)
Public Sub copy_paste_delete()
Dim i As Integer
Dim n As Integer
Dim DBRW As Range
Dim DBRWrange(1 To 150) As Range
Dim nof As Range
Dim nofRange(1 To 150) As Range
Dim rangef As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Worksheets("Tab1").Activate
Range("K29").Select
Set DBRW = Nothing
Set nof = Nothing
For n = 61 To 75
Set nof = Nothing
Set DBRW = Nothing
For i = 33 To 38
If Cells(i, n).HasFormula = True And Cells(6, n) = "F" Then
Set DBRWrange(i) = Cells(i, n)
If DBRW Is Nothing Then
Set DBRW = DBRWrange(i)
Else
Set DBRW = Union(DBRW, DBRWrange(i))
End If
ElseIf Cells(i, n).HasFormula = False And Cells(6, n) = "A" And Cells(7, n) = "Done" Then
Set nofRange(i) = Cells(i, n)
If nof Is Nothing Then
Set nof = nofRange(i)
Else
Set nof = Union(nof, nofRange(i))
End If
End If
Next i
Set rangef = Cells(19, n)
On Error Resume Next
rangef.Copy nof
Next n
DBRW.Select
'Do some stuff
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub