Loop through all sheets to find cells which contain special characters - excel

Question

I have this macro to replace special characters in any sheet in my workbook.
It gets rid of these characters: ! # # $ % ^ & () /
Sub Macro3()
Dim splChars As String
Dim ch As Variant
Dim splCharArray() As String
splChars = "! # # $ % ^ & () /" splCharArray = Split(splChars, " ")
For Each ch In splCharArray
Cells.Replace What:="~" & ch, Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:= _
xlByRows, MatchCase:=True
Next ch
End Sub
I need a second macro which would do Cells.Find for every cell in every worksheet then create a new sheet to list all cell addresses and special characters found.
On the web I found:
Public Sub SearchForText()
Dim rngSearchRange As Range
Dim vntTextToFind As Variant
Dim strFirstAddr As String
Dim lngMatches As Long
Dim rngFound As Range
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
vntTextToFind = Application.InputBox( _
Prompt:="Enter text to find:", _
Default:="Search...", _
Type:=2 _
)
If VarType(vntTextToFind) = vbBoolean Then Exit Sub
On Error Resume Next
Set rngSearchRange = Application.InputBox( _
Prompt:="Enter range for search:", _
Default:=ActiveCell.Parent.UsedRange.Address, _
Type:=8 _
)
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
If rngSearchRange Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Set rngFound = rngSearchRange.Find( _
What:=CStr(vntTextToFind), _
LookIn:=xlValues, _
LookAt:=xlPart _
)
If rngFound Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "No matches were found.", vbInformation
Else
With ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Add
With .Range("A1:B1")
.Value = Array("Cell", "Value")
.Font.Bold = True
End With
strFirstAddr = rngFound.Address
Do
lngMatches = lngMatches + 1
.Cells(lngMatches + 1, "A").Value = rngFound.Parent.Name & "!" _
& rngFound.Address(0, 0)
.Cells(lngMatches + 1, "B").Value = rngFound.Value
Set rngFound = rngSearchRange.FindNext(rngFound)
Loop Until (rngFound.Address = strFirstAddr)
.Columns("A:B").AutoFit
End With
End If
Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
MsgBox Err.Description, vbExclamation
End Sub
This code works. My problem is, I need to set a range in which it searches every time and it can only be one sheet, so essentially if I have 10 sheets I need to run this macro 10 times to get the desired result.
I would like to search for each character in every worksheet of my workbook, then create a new sheet and return the address of every cell in an entire workbook which contains any of my declared characters.
I thought I could declare new variable ws as worksheet and loop through all worksheets with the same range selected using for each.

Answer 1

Try this. You just need another loop for the worksheets, and a loop for the Find.
This code doesn't do any replacing.
Sub Macro3()
Dim splChars As String
Dim ch As Variant
Dim splCharArray() As String
Dim r As Range, s As String
Dim ws As Worksheet
splChars = "! # # $ % ^ & () /"
splCharArray = Split(splChars, " ")
Sheets.Add().Name = "Errors" 'to list characters and location
For Each ch In splCharArray
For Each ws In Worksheets
If ws.Name <> "Errors" Then
Set r = ws.Cells.Find(What:=ch, Lookat:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False)
If Not r Is Nothing Then
s = r.Address
Do
Sheets("Errors").Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)(2) = ch 'character
Sheets("Errors").Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)(2) = r.Address(external:=True)
Set r = ws.Cells.FindNext(r)
Loop Until r.Address = s 'loop until we are back to the first found cell
End If
End If
Next ws
Next ch
End Sub