Validation summary of mandatory cells in excel - excel

Question

I have got an excel workbook, it has 5 static tabs and more tabs can be created using a template tab.
In each tab there is a certain field or a range that is mandatory to be filled out also in the new created tabs (might be up to 60).
My question is how can I go about seeing in, lets say in mainsheet, a summary which shows me:
Which tab has missing fields
Which fields is missing (an address of a cell)
I tried naming the range "MyRange" and counting if the cells are non blank.
But this will not work for the newly created sheets.
I also tried a conditional formatting but again this will not give me a summary.
In the meantime I also bumped into a sort of solution but this is also not the thing I am looking for:
Sub listEmptyCells()
Dim emptyAddresses() As String
Dim i As Long
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim rng As Range
Set ws = Sheets("1.Data Source") ' CHANGE AS NECESSARY
Set rng = ws.Range("B30:B32")
If WorksheetFunction.CountBlank(rng) = 0 Then
MsgBox ("No empty cells in the range")
Exit Sub
End If
emptyAddresses() = Split(rng.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Address, ",")
For i = LBound(emptyAddresses) To UBound(emptyAddresses)
ws.Cells(i + 1, 2).Value = emptyAddresses(i)
Next i
End Sub
Your help and guidance here would be highly appreciated
All the best
Jacek

Answer 1

Here's one approach:
Sub listEmptyCells()
Const CHECK_RANGE As String = "B30:B32" 'range to locate empty cells in
Dim i As Long, r As Long, rngCheck As Range, rngEmpty As Range
Dim ws As Worksheet, wb As Workbook, wsSummary As Worksheet
Dim rwSummary As Range, s As String, c As Range
Set wb = ThisWorkbook
Set wsSummary = wb.Worksheets("Summary")
Set rwSummary = wsSummary.Range("A2:B2") 'first row of results
rwSummary.Resize(wb.Worksheets.Count).Clear 'remove previous results
For i = 1 To wb.Worksheets.Count
Set ws = wb.Worksheets(i)
If ws.Name <> wsSummary.Name Then 'exclude specific sheet(s)
s = ""
Set rngEmpty = Nothing
'which range to check - special case or use default?
Select Case ws.Name
Case "Sheet One": Set rngCheck = ws.Range("A1:A10")
Case "Sheet Two": Set rngCheck = ws.Range("G34:G56,H10")
Case Else: Set rngCheck = ws.Range(CHECK_RANGE) 'default range
End Select
'loop cells in check range
For Each c In rngCheck.Cells
If Len(c.Value) = 0 Then
If rngEmpty Is Nothing Then
Set rngEmpty = c
Else
Set rngEmpty = Application.Union(rngEmpty, c)
End If
End If
Next c
If Not rngEmpty Is Nothing Then
s = rngEmpty.Count & " required cell(s) not filled:" & _
rngEmpty.Address(False, False)
End If
With rwSummary 'record results
.Cells(1).Value = ws.Name
.Cells(2).Value = IIf(s <> "", s, "OK")
.Font.Color = IIf(s <> "", vbRed, vbGreen)
End With
Set rwSummary = rwSummary.Offset(1, 0) 'next summary row
End If
Next i
End Sub