It works awesome, thank you so much. :-)

God bless
jsd219

PS. yes i wanted to delete the entire row

Dave Peterson wrote:
So what happens with the cells/rows with "Vocabulario en acción 1" on them?

Do you delete the entire row or do you just delete that single cell and shift
everything up (leaving (A:M, and N:IV alone)?

I left some code at the bottom that you can change. But the way it is now, it
deletes the entire row.


Try this against a copy of your worksheet--just in case.

Option Explicit
Sub AddTextToCellsExcel2()

Dim myCell As Range
Dim myRng As Range
Dim sStart As String
Dim sEnd As String
Dim wks As Worksheet
Dim RngToDelete As Range
Dim myStr As String
Dim bReplace As Boolean

Set wks = ActiveSheet

With wks
Set myRng = .Range("N1", .Cells(.Rows.Count, "N").End(xlUp))
End With

sStart = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to search for", _
Default:="STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING")

If Trim(sStart) = "" Then
MsgBox "quitting!"
Exit Sub
End If

sEnd = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to end with", _
Default:="CORE INSTRUCTION")

If Trim(sEnd) = "" Then
MsgBox "Quitting"
Exit Sub
End If

bReplace = False
For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
If LCase(myCell.Value) Like LCase(sStart & "*") Then
bReplace = True
myStr = myCell.Offset(1, 0).Value
If RngToDelete Is Nothing Then
Set RngToDelete = myCell.Offset(1, 0)
Else
Set RngToDelete = Union(myCell.Offset(1, 0), RngToDelete)
End If
ElseIf LCase(myCell.Value) Like LCase(sEnd & "*") Then
bReplace = False
Else
If bReplace = True Then
myCell.Value = myStr & " - " & myCell.Value
End If
End If
Next myCell


If RngToDelete Is Nothing Then
'do nothing
Else
'delete the entire row
RngToDelete.EntireRow.Delete
'or just that cell in Column N
'RngToDelete.Delete Shift:=xlUp
End If

End Sub

jsd219 wrote:

:-) here is an example of what i am trying to do:

DAY 1
STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNINGCORE INSTRUCTION
Vocabulario en acción 1
Communication 1.2 Students understand and interpret...
Comparisons 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding...
CORE INSTRUCTION

DAY 2
STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Vocabulario en acción 1
Communication 1.1 Students engage in conversations...
Communication 1.2 Students understand and interpret...
Communication 1.3 Students present information...
Cultures 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding...
Comparisons 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding...
CORE INSTRUCTION

Notice the difference with the two days. what i need to do is find the
cell in column "N" with the text string "STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LEARNING" select the cell directly below this one and paste its
contents in front of all cells below in the same column intil i reach
the cell with "CORE INSTRUCTION"

The two days above would then look like this:

DAY 1
STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNINGCORE INSTRUCTION
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Communication 1.2 Students understand...
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Comparisons 4.1 Students demonstrate...
CORE INSTRUCTION

DAY 2
STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Communication 1.1 Students engage...
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Communication 1.2 Students...
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Communication 1.3 Students present...
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Cultures 2.1 Students demonstrate an...
Vocabulario en acción 1 - Comparisons 4.2 Students demonstrat...
CORE INSTRUCTION

i have 10,000 rows of this info that i need to go through and make
these changes to: what i love about Shauna's script is it allows me to
put in whatever text i want as a starting point and whatever text i
want as an ending point giving me freedon to make adjustments if needed
down the line. her script works perfect if i had everything in word. i
have everything in excel and there is no way i could move it to word,
there are too many formulas and scripts populating this spread sheet. i
pulled up the REF in the tools tab and selected Word which helped but i
still get the activedocument error. i tried several attempts to change
that line but i could not figure out what it needs to be to make this
run in excel. any help would be very much appreciated and thanks for
all of the help so far.

God bless
jsd219

Dave Peterson wrote:
Excel doesn't have an activedocument.

Are you trying to automate changes to a word document from excel or are you
trying to change values in an excel file?

If you're changing an excel file, make sure you select the range to adjust
before you run either of the macros.

If that doesn't work, you may want to describe what you want in plain old words.

jsd219 wrote:

Unfortunately neither one of those worked. the original script works
perfectly in word but my work is in excel. i am having problems with
the code below:

Set oTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
For Each oRow In oTable.Rows
'Get the range of the cell
Set rngCell = oRow.Cells(1).Range

God bless
jsd219

Dave Peterson wrote:
Typo...

Dim myCell as range

In fact, a few typos!

Option Explicit
Sub AddTextToCellsExcel()

Dim myCell As Range
Dim myRng As Range

Set myRng = Selection
'or give it the range you need
'set myrng = worksheets("sheet9999").range("a1:c12")

For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
myCell.Value = myCell.Value & "CORE Instruction"
Next myCell

End Sub

'or....


Sub AddTextToCellsExcel2()

Dim myCell As Range
Dim myRng As Range
Dim sStart As String
Dim sEnd As String

sStart = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to search for", _
Default:="STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING")

sEnd = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to end with", _
Default:="CORE INSTRUCTION")

Set myRng = Selection
'or give it the range you need
'set myrng = worksheets("sheet9999").range("a1:c12")

For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
If LCase(myCell.Value) Like LCase(sStart & "*") Then
myCell.Value = myCell.Value & sEnd
End If
Next myCell

End Sub



jsd219 wrote:

Both of them are giving me Compile error: User-defined type not defined
and then it highlights Dim myCell As ranges

God bless
jsd219

Dave Peterson wrote:
Maybe...

Option Explicit
Sub AddTextToCellsExcel()

Dim myCell as ranges
dim myRng as range

set myrng = selection
'or give it the range you need
'set myrng = worksheets("sheet9999").range("a1:c12")

for each mycell in myrng.cells
mycell.value = mycell.value & "CORE Instruction"
next mycell

sStart = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to search for", _
Default:="STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING")

sEnd = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to end with", _
Default:="CORE INSTRUCTION")

End Sub

===
Or maybe...

Option Explicit
Sub AddTextToCellsExcel()

Dim myCell as ranges
dim myRng as range
dim sStart as string
dim sEnd as string

sStart = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to search for", _
Default:="STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING")

sEnd = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to end with", _
Default:="CORE INSTRUCTION")

set myrng = selection
'or give it the range you need
'set myrng = worksheets("sheet9999").range("a1:c12")

for each mycell in myrng.cells
if lcase(mycell.value) like lcase(sstart & "*") then
mycell.value mycell.value & sEnd
next mycell

End Sub

jsd219 wrote:

Shauna Kelly wrote me a wonderful script but unfortunaltey she wrote it
in Word and i need it in Excel. can anyone help me convert this script
from Word to Excel?

Below is the script:

Option Explicit

Sub AddTextToCells()

Dim sStart As String
Dim sCopy As String
Dim sEnd As String

Dim oTable As Word.Table
Dim oRow As Word.Row
Dim rngCell As Word.Range
Dim rngCopy As Word.Range

Dim bReplace As Boolean

sStart = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to search for", _
Default:="STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING")

sEnd = InputBox(Prompt:="Text to end with", _
Default:="CORE INSTRUCTION")

Set oTable = ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
For Each oRow In oTable.Rows
'Get the range of the cell
Set rngCell = oRow.Cells(1).Range

'Omit the end of cell marker
rngCell.End = rngCell.End - 1

'Process the cell
If rngCell.Text = sStart Then
bReplace = True

'Get the replacement text
Set rngCopy = oRow.Next.Cells(1).Range
rngCopy.End = rngCopy.End - 1
sCopy = rngCopy.Text

'Delete the row following our row
oRow.Next.Delete

ElseIf rngCell.Text = sEnd Then
bReplace = False
ElseIf bReplace Then
rngCell.InsertBefore sCopy & " - "
End If
Next oRow

End Sub

Thanks in advance

God bles
jsd219

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