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Default Selecting cells in Excel

use the worksheet "Find" method. Bel;ow is an example.
As with a ctr+F, th eFind method continuously loops
through any found cells. To stop this, we simply save the
address of the first cell and loop until we arrive back
there again.
The code below does a find, then if a cell is founf,
records its address then does a DO...LOOP for any other
cells.

Add the following to a standard code module and run
Tester:

Option Explicit
Sub Tester()
MsgBox "Total is : " & FindCells("Total")
End Sub


Function FindCells(sFindWhat As String) As Double
Dim sFirstAddress As String
Dim rFoundCell As Range
Dim dGrandTotal As Double

With ActiveSheet.Cells

Set rFoundCell = .Find(sFindWhat)

If Not rFoundCell Is Nothing Then

sFirstAddress = rFoundCell.Address

Do
dGrandTotal = dGrandTotal + _
rFoundCell.Offset(0, 1).Value
Set rFoundCell = .Find(sFindWhat, rFoundCell)

Loop Until rFoundCell.Address = sFirstAddress

End If

End With
FindCells = dGrandTotal

End Function

Patrick Molloy
Microsoft Excel MVP

-----Original Message-----
Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how to select cells in Excel using VB

programming.
I'm trying to get the macro to run a find on the

word "Total".
Then select the data from the cells to the right of it.
Then paste the info in another spot.

Can anyone help please?

Thanx in advance

Salman
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