How to create a textjoin worksheet function with dynamic range - excel

Question

I have data where I have many column headers. One of the header is "Text" and one other header is "Value Date". I want to combine the values contained in every row between these columns in another column row-wise.
The problem is the number of columns between these two headers is not constant. It changes with every new ledger I export. So I want my code to be dynamic in such a way that it will identify the column of "Text" and then it will identify the column of "Value Date" and combine everything between in another column row-wise.
This is where I have reached with my code but I don't know why it's not working. I have been trying this for last 3 days only to get nowhere. When I run this code, the result which I get is "TextColumnNo:ValueColumnNo".
Sub TextJoin()
Dim TextColumnNo As Range
Dim ValueColumnNo As Range
Range("A1").Select
ActiveCell.EntireRow.Find("Text").Activate
Set TextColumnNo = Range(ActiveCell.Address(False, False))
Range("A1").Select
ActiveCell.EntireRow.Find("Value").Activate
Set ValueColumnNo = Range(ActiveCell.Address(False, False))
ActiveCell.Offset(1, -1).Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
ActiveCell.Value = Application.WorksheetFunction.TextJoin(" ", True, _
"TextColumnNo:ValueColumnNo")
ActiveCell.Select
Selection.AutoFill Destination:=ActiveCell.Range("A1:A8524")
ActiveCell.Range("A1:A8524").Select
Selection.Copy
Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End Sub

Answer 1

You would need 2 loops for this. One looping through all rows and one looping through the columns to combine the text for each row.
Note that you need to adjust some things like sheet name and output column here.
Option Explicit
Public Sub TextJoin()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Set ws = Worksheets("Sheet1") 'define a worksheet
'find start
Dim FindStart As Range
Set FindStart = ws.Rows(1).Find("Text")
If FindStart Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "start not found"
Exit Sub
End If
'find end
Dim FindEnd As Range
Set FindEnd = ws.Rows(1).Find("Value Date")
If FindEnd Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "start not found"
Exit Sub
End If
'find last used row in column A
Dim lRow As Long
lRow = ws.Cells(ws.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
Dim iRow As Long
For iRow = 2 To lRow 'loop through all rows (2 to last used row)
Dim CombinedText As String
CombinedText = vbNullString 'initialize/reset variable
Dim iCol As Long 'loop through columns for each row (from start to end column)
For iCol = FindStart.Column To FindEnd.Column
CombinedText = CombinedText & ":" & ws.Cells(iRow, iCol).Text 'combine values
Next iCol
ws.Range("Z" & iRow) = CombinedText 'write values in column Z
Next iRow
End Sub

Answer 2

Sub TextJoin()
Dim ColRefText As Long
Dim ColRefValueDate As Long
Const firstcol = "Text"
Const secondcol = "Value Date"
Dim r As Range
Set r = Rows(1).Cells.Find(firstcol)
If Not r Is Nothing Then
ColRefText = r.Column
Set r = Rows(1).Cells.Find(secondcol)
If Not r Is Nothing Then
ColRefValueDate = r.Column
End If
End If
If ColRefValueDate + ColRefText > 0 Then
With Cells(2, Worksheets(1).Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Offset(0, 1)
.Formula = Replace("=" & Cells(2, ColRefText).AddressLocal & "&" & Cells(2, ColRefValueDate).AddressLocal, "$", "")
.Copy Range(.Address, Cells(ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count, .Column).Address)
End With
End If
End Sub