Lop to delete rows

[Rob]

Using Excel 2000. I want to loop through column A of my worksheet and if
the contents are text, I want to delete the row. Tried all sorts of
suggestions on the web but can's seem to get Istex working.

Any suggestion welcome. Thank, Rob

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi

Try this for Column A
Read more info on this page
http://www.rondebruin.nl/delete.htm

Sub Loop_Example()
Dim Firstrow As Long
Dim Lastrow As Long
Dim Lrow As Long
Dim CalcMode As Long
Dim ViewMode As Long

With Application
CalcMode = .Calculation
.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
.ScreenUpdating = False
End With

'We use the ActiveSheet but you can replace this with
'Sheets("MySheet")if you want
With ActiveSheet

'We select the sheet so we can change the window view
.Select

'If you are in Page Break Preview Or Page Layout view go
'back to normal view, we do this for speed
ViewMode = ActiveWindow.View
ActiveWindow.View = xlNormalView

'Turn off Page Breaks, we do this for speed
.DisplayPageBreaks = False

'Set the first and last row to loop through
Firstrow = .UsedRange.Cells(1).Row
Lastrow = .UsedRange.Rows(.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Row

'We loop from Lastrow to Firstrow (bottom to top)
For Lrow = Lastrow To Firstrow Step -1

'We check the values in the A column in this example
With .Cells(Lrow, "A")

If Not IsError(.Value) Then

If Application.WorksheetFunction.IsText(.Value) = True Then .EntireRow.Delete

End If

End With

Next Lrow

End With

ActiveWindow.View = ViewMode
With Application
.ScreenUpdating = True
.Calculation = CalcMode
End With

End Sub

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Look also at Specialcells, faster.

Sub DeleteRowsWithText()
'This macro delete all rows with a blank cell in column A
'If there are no blanks or there are too many areas you see a MsgBox
Dim CCount As Long
On Error Resume Next

With Columns("A") ' You can also use a range like this Range("A1:A8000")
CCount = .SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlTextValues).Areas(1).Cells.Count
If CCount = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no blank cells"
ElseIf CCount = .Cells.Count Then
MsgBox "There are more then 8192 areas"
Else
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlTextValues).EntireRow.Delete
End If
End With

On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

 

[Rob]

Ron,

I had tried this but all rows are deleted, I turned off setting to manual
calc in case that was the issue but alas no. When entering =ISTEXT(A1), the
formula correctly returns Tue or False but macro deletes all rows.

I'll keep trying to figure it out. Thanks, Rob

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi Rob

Strange, can you send me your test file private.
I look at it then

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi Robert

Because Column A are for 98 % dates we must use Value2 in this example

If Application.WorksheetFunction.IsText(.Value2) = True Then .EntireRow.Delete

This one is also working correct

Sub DeleteRowsWithText()
'This macro delete all rows with a blank cell in column A
'If there are no blanks or there are too many areas you see a MsgBox
Dim CCount As Long
On Error Resume Next

With Columns("A") ' You can also use a range like this Range("A1:A8000")
CCount = .SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlTextValues).Areas(1).Cells.Count
If CCount = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no blank cells"
ElseIf CCount = .Cells.Count Then
MsgBox "There are more then 8192 areas"
Else
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants, xlTextValues).EntireRow.Delete
End If
End With

On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

 

[Rob]

Thanks Ron, I will get the hang of this in due course. Again thanks, Rob