Copy_Paste_Visible_Cells_Only - excel

Question

I have been trying to Copy the Filtered data and pasting the data on filtered cell but my code is not working.
I have data in Range Sheet2.Range("O2:O10000") and i filtered this range to Sheet2.Range("O173:O2400").
I want to copy the data from filtered cells Sheet2.Range("O173:O2400") then paste this data to visible cells on same Sheet2.Range("N173:N2400")
Please note there are multiple hidden rows in this range.
Any help will be appreciated
Sub Copy_Paste__Visible_Cells_Only()
Sheet2.Range("O173:O2400").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy
Sheet2.Range("N173:N2400").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Paste
End Sub

Answer 1

In this case, pasting won't work. As far as I know, you can't change the paste behaviour to only paste to visible cells.
When you select visible cells only, you get a collection of areas (you can think of them as a discontinuous set of ranges). Given you're just trying to move your visible data to the left, you can do it by looping through the areas and assigning their values to the same area in the previous column. Something like this:
Public Sub CopyVisible()
Dim a As Range
For Each a In Sheet1.Range("O4:O17").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Areas
a.Offset(0, -1).Value = a.Value
Next
End Sub
The .Offset(0,-1) is signalling that you wish the values to be moved one column to the left
You can see from this example, when I filter on "a" in column O and run the macro, only the "a" values are moved to column N.

Answer 2

I would use a generic sub copyVisibleCellsToOtherColumn to which you pass the source-range and the target-start range.
Advantage you can re-use it for different scenarios.
Sub test_CopyVisibleCells()
Dim rgSource As Range
Set rgSource = sheet2.Range("O173:O2400")
Dim rgTarget As Range
Set rgTarget = sheet2.Range("N173:02400")
copyVisibleCells rgSource, rgTarget
End Sub
'this ist the generic sub
Public Sub copyVisibleCellsToOtherColumn(rgSource As Range, rgTarget As Range)
Dim c As Range, a As Range
For Each a In rgSource.Areas
'this will return the visible cells within rgsource
For Each c In a.Cells
rgTarget.Rows(c.Row).Value = c.Value
Next
Next
End Sub

Answer 3

I found code from somewhere which able to copy visible cells and paste into visible cells. For easy usage, I manually assign a shortcut ctrl+shift+C to call the macro.
Public Sub Copy_Range_Paste_Into_Visible_Cells()
'Sub Copy_Range_Paste_Into_Visible_Cells()
Dim rngSource As Range, rngDestination As Range, cell As Range, cc As Long, i As Long
On Error Resume Next
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Set rngSource = Application.InputBox("Select the filtered range to copy. ", "Select Filtered Cells", Type:=8)
If rngSource Is Nothing Then Application.DisplayAlerts = True: Exit Sub 'User canceled
Set rngDestination = Application.InputBox("Select the destination cell to paste to. ", "Select Paste Destination", Type:=8)
If rngDestination Is Nothing Then Application.DisplayAlerts = True: Exit Sub 'User canceled
On Error GoTo 0
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
cc = rngSource.Columns.Count
For Each cell In rngSource.Columns(1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
Do Until Not rngDestination(1).Offset(i).EntireRow.Hidden
i = i + 1
Loop
rngDestination(1).Offset(i).Resize(1, cc).Value = cell.Resize(1, cc).Value
i = i + 1
Next
End Sub