Macro to delete pictures ?

[Guest]

I recorded a macro to delete 3 pictures that are copied onto my spreadsheet
every week. However, when I run the macro, I get a run time error stating
"item with the specified name not found". Looking at the macro, it indicates
shapes ( picture 1), shapes ( picture 2), etc.

Is there a fix for this ?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Don Guillett]

try
Sub ShapesCut()
For Each S In ActiveSheet.Shapes
S.Cut
Next
End Sub

 

[Ron de Bruin]

hi

Mayve the name have a space in it ?
See
http://www.rondebruin.nl/controlsobjectsworksheet.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys,

I went to your link, and I undesrtood the F5-Special-Objects-OK-delete, so I
tried that, and it worked great. However, I also had some macro buttons on
the worksheet that also were deleted ( objects.select). Here's the macro:

Sheets("test").Select
ActiveSheet.DrawingObjects.Select
Selection.Delete

There probably is info on your link that will delete all objects but my
macro buttons, but I can't figure it out.

Thnaks again,

Steve

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi Steve

You can try

Sub Shapes2()
'Loop through the Shapes collection and use the Type number of the control
Dim myshape As Shape
For Each myshape In ActiveSheet.Shapes
If myshape.Type = 13 Then myshape.Delete
Next myshape
End Sub

 

[Guest]

I surely appreciate your help, but I feel shapelessly looped, because I don't
understand most of the terminology. When I select-all copy the webpage to my
file, in addition to the data I need, it has 3 pictures that it copies. The
tab I'm pasting it to also has 2 of my buttons from the forms toolbar that
I've assigned macros to. I'd like to be able to delete those 3 pictures, but
leave my 2 buttons.

Sorry that I'm so confused.

Steve

 

[Don Guillett]

does this do it if the button name starts with B

Sub cutpictures()
For Each s In ActiveSheet.Shapes
If Left(s.Name, 1) <> "B" Then s.Cut
Next

 

[Guest]

Worked great !

Thanks so much for your patience with me.

Steve

 

[Don Guillett]

glad it worked for you.