Fastest way to insert multiple page breaks in Excel with VBA - excel

I need to insert multiple page breaks into a document (a few hundred) and am trying to find the fastest way. I know with most sheet operations in excel it is fastest to batch them as an array or range and then perform them all at once. But with page breaks I can't see a way around performing individually within a loop.
The code below works but is slow
With shtBagCheckList
.Cells.PageBreak = xlPageBreakNone
For i = 13 To lngArrayRows Step 12
.Cells(i, 1).PageBreak = xlPageBreakManual
Next i
End With
A technique I sometimes use to apply formatting is to combine all the ranges that require the same formatting into one range and then apply the formatting to the combined range. Like this:
Set rngToBold = Union(rngToBold, Rng2) 'etc in a loop
rngToBold.Font.Bold = True
But doing that with page breaks, the break is only applied to the first element in the range. For example doing the below only create a page break at row 12, none at 24
set rng = range("A12", "A24")
rng.PageBreak = xlPageBreakManual
What is the fastest way to add many page breaks into a sheet?
Update
Here are the results I got using tips from user11121185 and Tim Williams.
It turns out using HpageBreaks.add is way faster
1 rng.Page Break, calculation on: 20.594 (45%)
2 rng.Page Break, calculation off: 13.219 (29%)
3 rng.Page Break, calculation off, display breaks off: 11.922 (26%)
4 hbreaks.add,calculation on: 0.018 (0%)
5 hbreaks.add, calculation off : 0.203 (0%)
6 hbreaks.add, calculation off, display page breaks off: 0.312 (1%)
Total Time: 46.267
(calculation off means automatic calculation and screen updating off)
Usage is like this:
sheet.HPageBreaks.Add sheet.range("A10")
Or:
With shtBagCheckList
.Cells.PageBreak = xlPageBreakNone
For i = 13 To lngArrayRows Step 12
.HPageBreaks.Add .Cells(i, 1)
Next i
End With

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Faster Way of Grouping Rows using Loops in VBA

For k = 1 To 25000
z = Sheet6.Range("E4").Offset(k, 0)
If (z = 3 Or z = 4) Then
Range("E4").Offset(k, 0).Rows.Group
Else
End If
Next k
I am trying to create a loop for grouping with a condition. If the given cell (E5, E6 and so on) value is 3 or 4 then these rows will be grouped together as in Excel function "Data > Outline > Group". And this loop will run for 25000 lines, sometimes more. With my code and 25000 lines, this task takes approx. 20 minutes to run which is not ok. How can I fasten up this process? I would normally create an array to run the loop quicker but when it's "grouping" I couldn't come up with how. Bear in mind that I am using some speed-up techniques such as application calculation manual, no screen updating, no enable events. I am posting the link of an image for the end result to better explain what I need

Sum of a specific range that changes on each iteration of a loop

I have a sheet that the values of a range change each time I change a specific cell. Let's say that the cell C8 is an indentity of a person and column H the scheduled monthly repayments. I need to find the aggregate monthly repayments, hence on each possible value of C8 (and that actually means for every person as you can think of different values of C8) I need the aggegate of repayments, hence the aggegate of cell Hi Hence, keeping row i constant and changing cell C8, I always need to sum Hi. So I actually need sum(Hi) (i constant and the index of the sum is cell c8, so if c8 takes value from 1 to 200, I need the sum(Hi(c8)), again row i . Hi(c8) it is just a notation to show you that Hi depends on the value of c8. The actual formula in cell H10 is INDEX('Sheet2'!R:R,MATCH('Sheet1'!$C$8,'Sheet2'!F:F,0)))). H11 and onwards have the same formula with slight twists for the fact that the repayments are not always equal, but the index function remains the same.
Then, the total of H10 for all possible values of c8 is pasted in c17, the total of H11 is pasted in C18 etc. Please find some images below, maybe that helps to support what I try to achieve. enter image description here
I have the following code for that purpose. Note that the above example was just to explain you a bit the background, the cells and the range that changes are different.
sub sumloop()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayStatusBar = False
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C8").Value = 1
Dim i, k As Integer
i = 1
k = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C9").Value
Dim LR As Long
LR = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C" &
Sheets("Sheet1").Rows.Count).End(xlUp).row
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C17:C" & LR).ClearContents
Do While i <= k
If (Sheets("Sheet1").Range("J9").Value = "") Then
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("h10:h200").Copy
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("c17").PasteSpecial
Paste:=xlValues, Operation:=xlAdd, SkipBlanks:= _
False, Transpose:=False
Else
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("h9:h200").Copy
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("c17").PasteSpecial
Paste:=xlValues, Operation:=xlAdd, SkipBlanks:= _
False, Transpose:=False
End If
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C8").Value = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C8").Value+1
i = i + 1
Loop
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C8").Value = 1
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Application.DisplayStatusBar = True
End Sub
The if inside of the loop is needed as the location of the first value of the range depends on some criteria which have not to do with the code. Also k denotes the maximum number of possible values. What I need is approximately 250.
While the code works, it takes approximately 40 seconds to run for 84 values of cell C8 and approximately 1.5 minute for 250. I tried some things, changed do while to for but nothing significant, used variable ranges instead of fixed ones like h10:h100, very similar to what I do with Sheet1.Range(C17:C&LR). Again no significant changes. As I am very new to vba I don't know if 1.5 minutes are a lot for such a simple code, but to me it seems a lot and this analysis is needed for 10 different combinations of 250 different values for cell c8, which means 15 minutes approximately.
I would appreciate if anyone can suggest me something faster.
Thank you very much in advance.
Here is a complete solution, with explainations in comments.
Because we do not have you source spreadsheet, I could not run any tests on this.
Option Explicit 'This forces you to declare all your varaibles correctly. It may seem annoying at first glance, but will quickly save you time in the future.
Sub sumloop()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'Application.DisplayStatusBar = False -> This is not noticely slowing down your code as soon as you do not refresh the StatusBar value for more than say 5-10 times per second.
'Save the existing Calculation Mode to restore it at the end of the Macro
Dim xlPreviousCalcMode As XlCalculation
xlPreviousCalcMode = Application.Calculation
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
'Conveniently store the Sheet into a variable. You might want to do the same with your cells, for example: MyCellWhichCounts = MySheet.Range("c17")
Dim MySheet As Worksheet
MySheet = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")
MySheet.Range("C8").Value2 = 1 'It is recommended to use.Value2 instead of .Value (notably in case your data type is Currency, but it is good practice to use that one all the time)
Dim LR As Long
LR = MySheet.Range("C" & MySheet.Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row 'Be carefull with "MySheet.Rows.Count", it may go beyond your data range, for example if you modify the formatting of a cell below your "last" row.
MySheet.Range("C17:C" & LR).Value2 = vbNullString 'It is recommended to use vbNullString instead of ""; although I agree it makes it more difficult to read.
Dim i As Integer, k As Integer 'Integers are ok, just make sure you neer exceed 255
k = MySheet.Range("C9").Value2
For i = 1 To k 'Use a For whenever you can, it is easier to maintain (i.e. avoid errors and also for you to remember when you go back to it years later)
'Little extra so you can track progress of your calcs
Dim z As Integer
z = 10 'This can have any value > 0. If the value is low, you will refresh your app often but it will slow down. If the value is high, it won't affect performance but your app might freeze and/or you will not have your Statusbar updated as often as you might like. As a rule of thumb, I aim to refresh around 5 times per seconds, which is enough for the end user not to notice anything.
If i Mod z = 0 Then 'Each time i is a mutliple of z
Application.StatusBar = "Calculating i = " & i & " of " & k 'We refresh the Statusbar
DoEvents 'We prevent the Excel App to freeze and throw messages like: The application is not responding.
End If
'Set the range
Dim MyResultRange As Range
If (MySheet.Range("J9").Value2 = vbNullString) Then
MyResultRange = MySheet.Range("h10:h200")
Else
MyResultRange = MySheet.Range("h9:h200")
End If
'# Extract Result Data
MyResultRange.Calculate 'Refresh the Range values
Dim MyResultData As Variant
MyResultData = MyResultRange.Value2 'Store the values in VBA all at once
'# Extract Original Data
Dim MyOriginalRange as Range
MyOriginalRange.Calculate
MyOriginalRange = MySheet.Range("c17").Resize(MyResultRange.Rows.Count,MyResultRange.Columns.Count) 'This produces a Range of the same size as MyResultRange
Dim MyOriginalData as Variant
MyOriginalData = MyOriginalRange.Value2
'# Sum Both Data Arrays
Dim MySumData() as Variant
Redim MySumData(lbound(MyResultRange,1) to ubound(MyResultRange,1),lbound(MyResultRange,2) to ubound(MyResultRange,2))
Dim j as long
For j = lbound(MySumData,1) to ubound(MySumData,1)
MySumData(j,1)= MyResultData(j,1) + MyOriginalData(j,1)
Next j
'Instead of the "For j = a to b", you could use this, but might be slower: MySumData = Application.WorksheetFunction.MMult(Array(1, 1), Array(MyResultData, MyOriginalData))
MySheet.Range("C8").Value2 = MySheet.Range("C8").Value2 + 1
Next i
MySheet.Range("C8").Value2 = 1
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Application.StatusBar = False 'Give back the status bar control to the Excel App
Application.Calculation = xlPreviousCalcMode 'Do not forget to restore the Calculation Mode to its previous state
End Sub
Added by OP (see comments)
Image 1 Code written in the initially question. enter image description here
Image 2 Code above enter image description here
OK, A few things.
Firstly, Dim i, k As Integer doesn't do what you think it does, you need to do: Dim i As Integer, k As Integer
Secondly don't use Integer in VBA use Long so Dim i As Long, k As Long
Third the calculations are killing you. Turn them off with Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual at the start of your code and back on with Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic at the end of your code.
Now we are presented with really fast code but the problem that it doesn't update on each iteration which you need it to do. You can calculate just a range like so: Sheets("Sheet1").Range("h10:h200").Calculate so put that in just before you copy the range
There will be an even faster way to do this but I just can't seem to wrap my head around your requirements so I am unable to assist further.
Welcome to StackOverflow.
I must admit I got a bit confused by your narrative, as I did not fully understand if you are doing a sum(a,b,c) or a sum(sum(a,b,c), sum(d,e,f), ...).
In any cases, a trick that will dramatically accelerate your script is the use of arrays.
Performing calcs with VBA is not slow, but retrieving the data from Excel (communicating with the application) IS slow, and pretty much depending on the number of "requests", rather than the quantity of data requested.
You can use arrays to request the data from a range all at once, isntead of requesting the value of each cell separately.
Dim Arr() As Variant
Arr = Range("A1:E999")
It is as simple as this.
Give it a try and if you are still struggling let us know.
BONUS
If you are new to Arrays, keep in mind you can have a two-dimmensionnal array:
Dim 2DArray(0 to 10, 0 to 50)
Or a stacked array (an array of arrays):
Dim MyArray() as String
Dim StackedArray() as MyArray
Dim StackedArray() as Variant
You will need a 2D-Array for extracting the data from a range, but I feel you may need an Array of 2D-Arrays for your Sum of Sums.
Some recommended reading: https://excelmacromastery.com/excel-vba-array/
How to achieve the same through pivot charts (no VBA)
Step 1
First, you must organize your data in a specific way, where each column is a field, and each row is a data entry. If you are not familiar with databases, this is the most tricky point as you may arrange your data in different ways.
Long story short, we will take an example where you have 3 customers and 4 dates.
So that is 12 data entries, which will provide the repayment value for each of the possible customer ID and date.
Step 2
Select that data and insert a PivotChart.
Note: you could insert a PivotTable alone, or a PivotChart alone. I recommend the option hwere you insert both, as managing your data will be more intuitive when working on the Chart. The table is updated at the same time you update the chart.
Step 3
Make sure the all your data is selected, including the top row which will dictate the name of each field (the name of each column).
Step 4
A new sheet has just been create, and you can see where both your PivotTble and PivotCharts will appear. Select the chart.
Step 5
A menu to the right will appear (it might have already been there, so make sure you selected the Chart and not the Table, as that menu would be slightly different).
Step 6
Drag and drop the field names into the categories as shown.
What you are doing here is telling Excel what data you want to see (Values) and how you want to break it down (per date, and per customer).
Step 7
By default dates data is always groupped quartile and year. To be able to see all the date we have data for, you can click the [+] near the data on the Table: this will show more details for both the table and the chart.
Step 8
But we want to get completely rid of the quartils and years. In order to achieve this, you need to right click any value of your date column in the Table, and choose "Ungroup" as displayed.
Step 9
Your data now looks like this.
Note the time axis is not on scale. For example if you hae monthly data and a month is missing, there will be no gap. This is one of the difficulties with Pivot data. This can be overcomes, but it is off topic here.
Step 10
Now we want to have a cumulative view of the data, so we want to play with the way the values are proessed by Excel.
Select the chart, then in the right panel: right click on the "Sum of Repayment" field, and select "Value Field Settings".
Step 11
In the "Show Values As" tab, select "Show values as" "Running Tital In".
Then choose "Date".
Here we are telling Excel that the value to display should be a cumulative total, cumulated according to the "Date" field.
Press OK.
Step 12
You now have what you are looking for. If you look in the Table, you have one column per Customer ID, and one row per date. For a given Date, you have the cumulative repayment made by a given Customer ID. At the very right, you have the Grand Total, which is, for a given date, the sum of all the Customer ID values.
Step 13
The Chart keeps showing the cumulative payment per CUstomer ID, and we cannot see the grand total.
In orer to achieve this, simply remove the "Customer ID" field from the "Legend (Series)" category area in the Fields Panel, as shown. (you can untick the Customer Id [x] box, or you can drag and drop it from the category area to the main list area).
Step 14
Now we only have the Grand total in the chart. But why?
If you display the "Value Field Settings" of Sum of Repyament" (Step 10), the first tab "Summarize Values By" will tell Excel what to do when several value meet the same Legend and Axis values.
Now that we removed the Customer ID field from the Legend area, for each date, we have 3 repayment values (one for each Customer ID). In the field settings, we tell Excel to use a "Sum". So it returns the sum of the 3 values.
But you could play around and return the Average, or even use "Count", which will show you how many records you have (it will return 3).
That is why pivot charts are so powerful: with only a few clicks and/or drag and drop, you can display a myriad of different graphics for your data.
For future interest, you should look online for Filters, and "Insert Slicer" (which is equivalent to filtering, but will add button directly on your chart: great when showing the data to colleagues and switch from one setting to another)
Hope this helped!

How to insert page breaks to keep certain data ranges together?

I'm trying to create a monthly report for my company and I'm having troubles with the aesthetics of it. I have tables (with lots more data) that looks like this:
enter image description here
textwise looks like this (if picture is unavailable)
Customer 1 - 2018-###-#33
Customer 2 - 2017-###-###
----------------2018-###-###
Customer 3- 2018-###-###
etc
but sometimes there is a page break in the middle of a customer data, so that the title shows up on the first page but the last row(s) are on a new page.
I am trying to come up with a code to sense whether or not the data range will be split up, but I can not. I had thought maybe the pagebreak could be anticipated with the row number (as that's how I'm grouping the data) but one sheet has the break on row 101 (because this data starts at row 46) and the other has the pagebreak on row 106.
I have tried doing something similar to this:
If i >= 102 And start.row <= 101 Then
Worksheets(storenumber).HPageBreaks.Add before:=Rows(start.row)
Else
If i >= 176 And start.row <= 166 Then
Worksheets(storenumber).HPageBreaks.Add before:=Rows(start.row)
End If
End If
(with varying i = numbers and combination) but I haven't had any success.
Does anyone else have any other ideas? there normally is only one page break per storenumber sheet, with the except of one sheet. (and some sheets don't need a page break as they only have say 5 customers)
I'm looking for an easier code (excel beginner/intermediate) but I'm open to any ideas. Thanks for your help!
This code seems to work for me:
Option Explicit
Sub BreakPagesCleanly()
Dim pb As HPageBreak
Dim rng As Range
Dim i As Long
ActiveWindow.View = xlPageBreakPreview
ActiveSheet.ResetAllPageBreaks
For Each pb In ActiveSheet.HPageBreaks
If pb.Location.Value = "" Then
'go back to the last value
Set rng = pb.Location.End(xlUp)
ActiveSheet.HPageBreaks.Add before:=rng
DoEvents 'Seems to be required to give Excel time to catch up
End If
Next pb
End Sub
Here's the before view, vs the after:

Comparing Decimal Values Excel VBA

I am trying to compare decimal values in Excel VBA and delete rows that
match the criteria. This was my original code and it skipped over many rows.
For Each i In WSData.Range("A7", WSData.Range("A7").End(xlDown)).Cells
If i.Offset(0, 3).Value >= 98 Then
i.EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next
And the values on the spreadsheet are decimal values just with the % sign.
I tried "> 97.99" because Excel has some issues with floating point comparison but it still doesn't accurately compare.
Here is what it shows after using Selection.Value.
Percentages are decimal depicted with integers. For example 100.00% is stored as 1 and 98.01% is stored as .9801.
Therefor you need to adjust the threshold:
For Each i In WSData.Range("A7", WSData.Range("A7").End(xlDown)).Cells
If i.Offset(0, 3).Value >= .98 Then
i.EntireRow.Delete
End If
Next
The second problem is that when deleting rows it is best to iterate backwards. Otherwise it might miss some rows, because as each row is deleted it is moved up and then the next iteration skips the next row.
Change i from a range to a long and use this:
For i = WSData.Range("A7").End(xlDown).row to 7 Step -1
If WSData.Cells(i,3).Value >= .98 Then
Row(i).Delete
End If
Next
Edit: Because it appears there is a custom mask on the number format that is forcing numbers to look like percentages try this:
For i = WSData.Range("A7").End(xlDown).row to 7 Step -1
If WSData.Cells(i,3).Value >= 98 Then
Row(i).Delete
End If
Next
If this works then your main problem was that you were looking at column D. The offset is additive. So when you used .offset(0,3) it was moving three columns from column A. 1 + 3 is 4.

Loop through a combination of numbers

I am trying to think of a way to loop through a number of combinations making sure that I go through each available combination without repeat. Let me explain. I have a set of numbers, for example
20,000
25,000
27,000
29,000
and I would like to alter this set of numbers via a loop and copy the new numbers into a different sheet so that my formulas on that sheet can calculate whatever I need them to calculate. For example, the first couple of iterations might look something like this:
1st
20,000 x 1.001
25,000 x 1
27,000 x 1
29,000 x 1
2nd
20,002 x 1.001
25,000 x 1.001
27,000 x 1
29,000 x 1
The first row of numbers should never exceed the second. So 20,000 should only go as high as 25,000.
I was able to set up a system whereby I set up a matrix and then loop through a random set of combinations using =rand() however this does not ensure I hit every combination and also repeats combinations.
Can anyone explain the math behind this and also how I would use a loop to accomplish my goal?
Thank you!
Try starting with smaller numbers.
See if this works for you.
Sub looper()
'First Array
Dim myArray(9) As Double
For i = 1 To 10
myArray(i - 1) = i
Next i
'Second Array
Dim myOtherArray(9) As Double
For i = 1 To 10
myOtherArray(i - 1) = i
Next i
'Loop through each one
For Each slot In myArray
For Each otherSlot In myOtherArray
Debug.Print (slot & " * " & otherSlot & " = " & slot * otherSlot)
Next otherSlot
Next slot
End Sub
GD user1813558,
Your question contains too little detail and is too broadly scoped to be able to provide a accurate answer.
Are your numbers arbitrary (i.e. the ones you provided are 'just'
samples) or will they be fixed as per your indicated numbers ?
Will there always be only 4 numbers ?
Is the distribution of your startnumbers (i.e. their difference
value) always as per your indication 0, +5000, +2000, +2000
Will the results of all 'loops' (or iterations) need to be copied to
a different sheet ? (i.e looping from 20.000 to 25.000 by increments
of 1.001 would require about 223 iterations, and subsequently sheets,
before the result starts exceeding 25.000 ?)
Does a new sheet need to be created for each iteration result or are they
existent or will the result be copied to the same sheet for every iteration ?
In short, please provide a more accurate question.

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