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Default Selecting a range to delete

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:33:01 -0700, Gary''s Student
wrote:

You are correct to be concerned. You need to tell the AutoFilter to cover
the entire range including any embedded blank cells. In the code below:


Thank you for the feedback and confirmation to be concerned.

I did play a little with autofilter manually just to see what might
happen. I acutally have 6 different terms in the column G that I want
to filter out and my observations we

Even autofilter was slow, it took 2-3 minutes to select the filtered
rows and then several moments to delete the resulting selection.

And on one of the terms autofilter failed (I forget the error message,
it was LATE last night) but I deduced the failure was a result of the
size of the worksheet and the size of the of the dataset that was
selected.

I will try your suggestion later and see how it works.

Large datasets are a PAIN!


John Keith