I am using the following code to add a range:
Combined_Data.Range("A1:AZ200").Find("Marker").Offset(1,0).Select
Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="Marker",RefersTo:=Selection
When I use the named range "Marker" in an excel formula (typed directly into the spreadsheet), the workbook doesn't seem to respect the values contained in the range. The only way I can get it to work is to use an R1C1 reference to the cells I want in the range.
Does anyone know how I can avoid the specific cell reference?
When I look at the Name Manager, the actual cell references of the range are correct. In this example it is: A6:A1655. The Name Manager has: ='Combined Data'!$A$6:$A$1655
When I use the R1C1 reference, the range appears the same in the Name Manager.
All the ranges should be fully qualified to the same worksheet Combined_Data. You also need to set the Range.Find() After parameter to the first cell in the Range.
Dim marker As Range
With Combined_Data
Set marker = .Range("A1:AZ200").Find("Marker", After:=.Range("A1"))
If Not marker Is Nothing Then
Set marker = marker.Offset(1, 0)
Set marker = .Range(marker, marker.End(xlDown))
marker.Name = "Marker"
End If
End With
These videos will help: Excel VBA Introduction Part 5 - Selecting Cells (Range, Cells, Activecell, End, Offset) and Excel VBA Introduction Part 15a - Find and FindNext
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I have a structured table in excel 2016.
I want to have a cell to count the number of cells across the entire row within the table if it matches my criteria.
I have tried putting this formula in column A on each row =COUNTIF(Table[#],"my criteria") but that does not count properly.
However, this works: =COUNTIF(Table[#[ColB]:[ColH]],"my criteria"). But since my table will expand, I don't want to specify the column name [ColB], I want to refer to the entre row in the table.
A header
countif
colC
colD
colE
First
formula
A
C
Second
formula
B
C
formula = =COUNTIF(Table[#],"A") does not work
formula = =COUNTIF(Table[#[colC]:[colE]],"A") works
My table will expand both horizontally and vertically.
Please Note: This solution is only available if you chose to use VBA. VBA does not work in web versions of Excel. Please ensure that you resave your workbook as a macro-enabled workbook before proceeding.
You can choose to use VBA and create your own custom worksheet formula. Since this question didn't start out as a VBA issue, I will be a bit more detailed on the process of setting this up as opposed to just throwing you some code and you having to figure out what to do with it.
After you've re-saved your workbook as a macro-enabled workbook, open the VBA Editor (VBE) by pressing Alt and F11 simultaneously.
In the VBE, click Insert > Module. You should now see Module1 highlighted on the left side bar (The project Explorer).
Copy and paste the following code in the blank area of the module:
Option Explicit
Public Function GetMyRowCount(Criteria As Variant) As Long
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim tblRng As Range, RowRng As Range
With Application.Caller
Set ws = .Worksheet
Set tblRng = ws.Range(.ListObject.Name)
Set RowRng = ws.Range(ws.Cells(.Row, .Column + 1), ws.Cells(.Row, tblRng.Columns.Count))
End With
GetMyRowCount = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(RowRng, Criteria)
End Function
Now use this UDF (User Designed Function) in your worksheet. In the column you would like the calculation to be in, simply type =GetMyRowCount("My Criteria") and it should calculate.
To point out how this code works in more detail:
Application.Caller is referring to the cell that this function is located in. Because we now know the location of the cell, VBA can use it's location to obtain the row data from it (which is why you don't need an argument for the row #).
RowRng is getting the starting point of the column within the ws.Range(...) function with the first ws.Cells(...) function. .Row is the row # from the GetMyRowCount function (using Application.Caller.Row method), and the 3 is simply the static column C.
The way we grab the last column we need is by counting the total # of columns within the table: ws.Cells(.Row, tblRng.Columns.Count)
Using the information we obtained from bullets 2 and 3, we can establish the entire range of the lookup we need, and then place this range into your CountIf() function, along with the criteria you passed with the function's argument:
GetMyRowCount = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(RowRng, Criteria)
As you can see in the following example, I wanted to count the number of times in the row the number 1 occurred:
Another example showing it works with text as well by using "Apple" as the criteria:
Try this: =COUNTIF(B:B,"my citeria"), so if your Column is A, range would be A:A, for B it is B:B.
Let me know if this helps.
So I have built a formula that has Absolute Cell References, and wanted to repeat the same formula down 3000 cells with each one referencing increment cells. (1st formula referring to Cell $A$1, 2nd formula referring to $A$2) I know that I could easily do this without referencing exact cells and the Fill Handle and this is currently how it's set up, however there's a very large number of people who work in this spreadsheet that have bad Excel manners, and regularly delete rows and cells or copy and paste, which breaks the formulas.
Rather than manually editing the same formula in each cell to change the references from relative to absolute, I was wanting to run a Macro to automatically run the formula for 3000 cells.
I had at first built a Macro that fills 20 cells with the formula, but it didn't adjust the formula based on the active cell. (Always entered with range $A$1:$A$20, and not $A$21:$a$40 when started further down) I changed the Macro to loop, but it looks with all formulas referencing $A$1 rather than updating.
The Macro set up to loop is as follows:
Sub HDDatesRef()
ActiveCell.Select
ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF(AND(HD!R1C1>0,ISBLANK(HD!R1C4)),HD!R1C1,""n/a"")"
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Range("A1").Select
Loop Until ActiveCell.Value = ""
End Sub
Any and all help with figuring this out would help immensely. Right now I also have access to Liknedin Learning, so if there's any suggestions for courses on there I should look into so I can understand what I need to do will help with this.
The Excel application object has a function called ConvertFormula which you can use to change a formula between reference styles (A1 or R1C1) and to specify whether the rows and columns should be relative references or absolute references.
If you start off by creating the formula in each row as a relative reference then you can use ConvertFormula to turn it into an absolute reference. The only restriction is that the formula cannot be longer than 255 characters.
Adapting your code and following the advice in How to avoid using Select in Excel VBA gives us:
Option Explicit
Sub HDDatesRef()
Dim r As Range
' If we know the cell address we want to start in then we could use that directly
' e.g. Set r = Worksheets("HD").Range("E1")
Set r = ActiveCell
Do
' The With block just saves us typing r.FormulaR1C1 multiple times
With r
' Don't know what your relative formula would be. I've assumed that we are
' working in column E but adjust as appropriate
.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF(AND(HD!RC[-4]>0,ISBLANK(HD!RC[-1])),HD!RC[-4],""n/a"")"
' Take the formula we already have which is in R1C1 format, keep it in R1C1 format,
' change it from a relative reference based on cell r to an absolute reference
' and make that the new formula for this cell
.FormulaR1C1 = Application.ConvertFormula(.FormulaR1C1, xlR1C1, xlR1C1, xlAbsolute, r)
End With
' Move down one row
Set r = r.Offset(1, 0)
Loop Until r.Value = ""
End Sub
In case you aren't familiar with them. here are the references for Option Explicit and With...End With
You can do this without looping, Excel is smart enough to know you want incremental.
As an example do run this on a fresh sheet:
Sub ShowIncremental()
Range("A1:A10").Formula = "=Row(A1)"
Range("B1:B10").Formula = "=A1*2"
Range("C1:C10").Formula = "=sum(B$1:B1)"
End Sub
Notice the formulas created in A1:C10. Notice Excel incremented them even though the code didn't say to except in the case where we absoluted B$1.
I recommend you do something similar with your code to avoid looping, this will be much much faster.
I'm trying to call a range between a fixed cell and a dynamic cell (which i can reference using a defined name and an offset). Im not too sure how the syntax should go. Currently I have:
Range("B21:Range("Anchor").Offset(-1,1)")
'(i know this is incorrect syntax, but just to show you the logic)
Where B21 is the fixed cell. And "Anchor" is the Defined name which has a dynamic cell address.
For some background: I'm trying to call all cells within a column of a table, however the table has an "add rows" function, so the last cell of the column is always changing. My "Anchor" is below the position the last row will be.
Im not very good with VBA language, so please bear with me.
You can do it like this:
Dim ws as worksheet, rng as range
set ws = activesheet
With ws
Set rng = .Range(.Range("B21"), .Range("Anchor").Offset(-1,1))
end with
I am wondering if there is a solution to load a picture using formula (not VBA) from a list of pictures in Excel
For example,
=IF(TODAY()-B9<8,G6,"puste")
Let's say I have a picture in cell G6, that I want the formula to return if the condition is true.
In brief, the solution can be summarized in 2 steps:
Create a linked picture cell using PasteSpecial method of Excel.
Modify the formula of linked cell to "Named Range" formula for making it dynamic.
(Optional) - If there are many cells, and one find it tiresome to manually change the address of each linked image then use the below VBA macro to assign Named Range formula to all cells.
Sub Set_Formula_Linked_Cell()
Dim rngDest As Range
Dim objPic As Object
For Each rngDest In Range("F5:O18").Cells
rngDest.Select
Set objPic = ActiveSheet.Pictures.Paste(Link:=True)
objPic.Formula = "=Country_Flag"
Set objPic = Nothing
Next
End Sub
In Detail, let's follow through a similar situation:
Let's assume we have a list of Country and their adjacent flags.
Next step is to copy the Cell (any cell which contain the flag, do not copy picture but the Cell/Range) and paste as Linked Picture in the destination cell.
Now, a careful observation in the address bar reveals that current cell which displays a flag is linked to another cell. We need to change this formula. Unfortunately, we cannot change the formula here. Either it could be a direct reference or a named range but not a formula.
We will create a "Named Range" with the name "Country_Flag" and Formula as:
=INDEX(Sheet1!$B$2:$B$6,MATCH(Sheet1!$F$3,Sheet1!$A$2:$A$6,0))
In the last Step, we will assign this named range to the linked cell.
I'm looking to vlookup a value from a tableArray on a different workbook and return the value and entire cells content.
This SO answer is nearly what I'm looking for.
If I amend this links copyFormatting routine (Private Sub copyFormatting(destCell As Range, srcCell As Range)) to copy the cell and paste all instead of formatting the cells font:
srcCell.Copy
destCell.PasteSpecial xlPasteAll
Then the code works as is when the return value is within the same workbook.
Any ideas how I can get the set range line -
fromCell.Parent.Range(destAddr)
to work when referencing a cell address in another workbooks sheet?
Set extractDestRange = Range(destAddr) 'fromCell.Parent
commenting out the fromCell.Parent reference fixes this.