Deleted Data Leaves A Trace
Dec 8, 2009
I have a worksheet where I've deleted data in cells and rows. I am left with alternating rows of data and blank rows however a macro that I've been running to delete blank rows does not work on some of the rows.
To delete the data I used the Find and Replace feature and it seems that afterward the cells where this data was is now somehow marked as not completely empty. It appears empty but if I use the Control-Right Arrow combination from Column A, it skips over some cells but stops on a cell that used to contain data. If I press the Delete key it clears the cell completely and if I do that on all the cells the Ctrl-Right Arrow stops on until the end of the row, the macro works on that row...but not the next row of seemingly empty cells.
It's not spaces and there's no apostrophes and the cells are all formatted as General (Number Style) and Normal (Styles). I've even copied the format of a row of all deleted cells but that still does not completely clean out the "empty" cells. I've also run the Inspect Document command to remove what may be there but same results.
Is there something I can do to locate and remove this mysterious data?
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Jun 12, 2009
I copy and paste large amounts of data using macros. Excel leaves some kind of trace, placeholder or something in the cells that are blank on the original sheet. So all my math calculations are messed up on the destination sheet.
Using GoTo special blanks does not work to select these cells in mass. I know how to loop through all the cells one at a time and check to see if they are "" or have a length of zero and clear them, but these methods take forever.
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When tracing precedents (or dependents) and the worksheet icon is pointed to, I understand that it is referring to another worksheet. Is there a way to discover which worksheet and/or cell?
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Jun 17, 2008
I would like to trace dependents of all cells <> "" in column A of a sheet "Tickmarks". If there is a cell in column A which has a value, but does not have a dependent I would like that value to be stored. When the trace dependents check is done for all the cells with values in column A, I would like to display a msgbox with all the cell values collected above.
Eventually, I will be trying to locate the cells with no dependents but with values in Column A and replace them with cells with dependents and change the dependent links to the updated cells.
I have attached an example.
Sub Trace_Dependents_Tickmark_Sheet()
Dim RowCounter As Integer
RowCounter = 3
'Select firsct cell with t/m & show dependents
Range("A" & RowCounter).ShowDependents
' Loop until RowCounter = 200
Do
If Range("A" & RowCounter).Value = 0 Then
RowCounter = RowCounter + 1
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Aug 20, 2013
I have a challenge I haven't quite been able to figure out:
I need a 6 digit trace code to be automatically generated for each job based on the date, the product type and the job number.
The first 2 digits on the trace-code are alphanumeric and the sequence for each job is AA, AB, AC etc.
The last 4 digits are a date code (YYWW.... two digits for the year and two digits for the week number).
The criteria is that multiple jobs of the same product type within the same work week must not have identical trace codes. So Job 1 gets "AA" plus the date code... Job 2 gets "AB" plus the date code, etc. If Job 3 is done in the next work week, it cycles back to "AA" and gets the new date-code.
Generating the date-code was simple enough, but coming up with a function or rule to assign the two-digit alpha has been a challenge that I have not been able to beat.
Below is an example of how the Trace-code column should work....note that Trace code on one product type might be identical to the trace code on another product type.
A
B
C
D
1
Date
Product type
Lot number
Trace code
[Code] .........
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Jul 24, 2014
I need to write an excel macro to trace the valid PO# in my daily report.
Below is the condition:
If the PO# is an empty cell, the result return at column B as Not Valid
If the PO# starts with any character (example: FISHNH123), the result return at column B as Not Valid
If PO# is not starts with 3000 or 490 or 450(example: 3000823041,3000823037), the result return at column B as Not Valid
PO#
Status
empty cell
Not Valid
PO# starts with any character (example: FISHNH123)
Not Valid
PO# is not start with 3000 or 490 or 450
Not Valid
I'm using excel 2010..
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Jun 5, 2007
I've a worksheet with 36 columns to keep track of a football confidence pool,I've a CF in which a W is entered in every other column from B1:AG1 and it highlites the whole column yellow,in column A is all players names,from column B2:AG2 I enter the 32 NFL teams,in row B3:AG3 I enter points from 1-16,in column AI it adds all numbers in yellow per row which gives me a weekly score,in column AJ I've the players name and there year to date points and finally in column AL it ranks the players by highest point total.
I will use this on a weekly bases for 16 weeks,what I need is for column AJ to keep adding the players points once I delete there respective numbers from rows B3:AG3 and add new ones for the following week.
Formula in cell AI3 =sumif($B$1:$AG$1,"W",$B3:AG3) copied down
Formula in cell AJ3 =A3 & " " & AI3 copied down
Formula in cell AL3 =rank(AI3,$AI$3:$AI$8,0) copied down
I also have the following macro an my sheet which allows me to use the formula in column AI3.
Function ConditionalColor(rg As Range, FormatType As String) As Long
'Returns the color index (either font or interior) of the first cell in range rg. If no _
conditional format conditions apply, Then returns the regular color of the cell. _
FormatType Is either "Font" Or "Interior"
Dim cel As Range
Dim tmp As Variant
Dim boo As Boolean
Dim frmla As String, frmlaR1C1 As String, frmlaA1 As String
Dim i As Long
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Jul 23, 2012
I have a spread sheet with merged cells in that contain data, when i ask excel to seek blank cells and delete them moving the others up it also deletes the merged cells.
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Apr 22, 2007
I have been setting up some pivot tables. Down the left side of the pivot table is the values from a column labelled TRACKS. There are about eight different TRACKS. Say Track1, Track2, Track3, etc. I have set the data range up as a dynamic named range so that if more rows or columns are added to the data then the pivot table will automatically incorporate these.
Today I wanted to test that the pivot was working as expected. One of the things I did was stick a few extra values into the TRACKS column on the data source. These were TEST1 and TEST2. These appeared in the TRACKS down the left side of the pivot table as expected.
When I deleted these two test values, however, they would not disappear from the pivot table. There seemed to be nothing I could do to make them go away, except to rebuild the pivot table from scratch.
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Dec 5, 2012
I have a cell in my spreadsheet (J3) that I need to never be changed or else other macros in my workbook will not work properly. I decided to try and use data validation since it is easy to change the rule every month and I can stay away from messing with passwords.
My cell value is a date, so I set data validation to have that cell equal only that specific date. If a user tries to overwrite the cell value, the error messages is prompted correctly. The one BIG problem is that I can just press the delete key and delete the contents of the cell. Is there any way of preventing this from happening without having to lock the cell and password protect the sheet?
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Apr 11, 2003
When we create a database in an Excel Spreadsheet and then some pivot tables, we use to copy the spreadsheet with another name, in order to clean the data and update it with another date (for instance, one excel spreadsheet for one BU or country, another one for other bU or country), to avoid creating the pivot tables again and again.
However, when we clean up all the data and enter the new one, on the Pivot Tables fields, you still see the "old data that was deleted"... Do you know if there is a way to delete that data without recretaing the pivot table?
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Apr 22, 2013
A lot of the Workbooks that I design for use by myself and colleagues require data to be copied in from external data sources. To avoid named ranges from failing, I always use the following method:
Calculate the length of the data set:
Code:
=COUNTA(INDIRECT("'Data Sheet'!"&"$A:$A"))
(There will be no gaps in the data, hence a count is fine.) This named range is called DSROWCOUNT.
Example named range for the data in column A:
Code:
=OFFSET(INDIRECT("'Data Sheet'!"&"$A$1"),1,0,DSROWCOUNT-1,1)
I use INDIRECT to ensure my named ranges do not fail if the data is deleted (accidentally or intentionally), as #REF! errors will occur.
The problem with this method is that it automatically makes the Workbooks volatile because of the use of OFFSET and INDIRECT, hence the Workbooks always needs to be in manual calculation mode to be usable.
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On occasion I cut a table from a website and paste into Excel. If/when that data is subsequently deleted from the sheet the gridlines no longer show. I've tried turning the gridlines on and off to know affect. I've tried setting and clearing borders, but that made no different to the gridlines either. Even if I highlight the entire sheet and delete it makes no difference. I can't think of anything else to try.
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We have created a macro that basically looks for rows that contain an "H" and hides the row if it does.
Users can add new rows throughtout the year to this spreadsheet. and based on certain criteria, an H or U will be placed in a hidden column which the macro looks at and hides any row it finds an H.
The user has to click on the button that has the macro assigned to it once they have finished working on the spreadsheet.
The problem we're finding is that for users who insert/delete rows, once they click the button it takes up to 15 seconds to run through macro (which is ok). However, users who haven't added or deleted any rows and who click the button, they have to wait upto 5 minutes (which isn't ok) for the macro ro run.
We can't figure out why the macro takes longer to run when no changes have been made?
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Is there a way to get it to return to where it started or not to scroll?
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Jan 20, 2006
I have a worksheet with ever expanding data - rows at the bottom of the data
are continually added. I have a simple macro that sorts all of the data
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ready for more data:
Sub Macro5()
Range("SortRange").Select
Selection.Sort Key1:=Range("SortRange"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:= _
xlGuess, OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:= _
xlTopToBottom
Do Until ActiveCell.Value = IsEmpty(True)
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Activate
Loop
End Sub
When running the Macro, this leaves all of the cells in the range 'selected'
(ie; coloured-over). What do I need to add to the Macro to just select the
cell in Column A and remove the highlighting from all the other cells?
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Feb 17, 2012
I'm using the following code
Code:
Sub UpdateValues()
' Purpose of this Module is to properly update all the values of the OEE Worksheets.
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim r As Range
Set r = Range("C30:H77")
For Each ws In Worksheets
[Code] ...........
However, I'm getting a dotted line fragment left over
I suspect it's because I used .Copy in the formula. Is there a better method?
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Jun 20, 2007
The below code clears a sheete starting at row 7 and leaves the last row. I want to validation that if the only row with text is the starting row then I dont want the delete rows to happen
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Sheets("Recap").Select
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Jun 7, 2007
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My problem is that when the result is 0 it just leaves a blank cell without a 0.
Can i correct this so that when the result is 0 it will actually show a 0 in the cell? I canīt put a 0 in the end of the formula because then it shows zeroes in all the cells without information aswell.
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I have tried various codes form this forum and searched for hours on the net for a solution to do this but no matter what I do/try nothing works (for long)
Another forum user did help me out with some code but there was an issue with column C, L & O (which are set as drop down lists) and when the code was put into the workbook these columns stopped working and froze the app.
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First and foremost I would like to congragulate you on this wondeful piece of code in the below link...
The query was to get a future date excluding Fridays and Holidays...
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-work...rkingdays.html
I have a similar query and therefore I pasted this link...
I actually wanted to get a future date using a Dynamic two day off as my the offs keep on changing as well as incorporate Holidays and Leaves if any..
Now Holidays would be official Public Holidays and
Leaves would be taken by the employee..
The code needs to pick the Leaves + Holidays and different offs maybe even more than 2 offs...
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May 19, 2008
I want to catch if the user has deleted a row. There is a need to know when a row is deleted and what the data was in that row. So, what I'm trying to do if a row is deleted is to undo the action and then change the font of all data in that row to have the strikethrough effect. This will enable others looking at the workbook to know that the information in the row existed but is no longer relevent.
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Application.Undo
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I am using excel 07 if that helps, or i could use another version...
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