Thanks for the reply, Bruce. Unfortunately I couldn't get this to work(I'm
new to editing VBA code). Let me describe what I'm doing and maybe there is a
different solution.

I'm creating a macro to format data to be used for a pivot table. This file
routinely exceeds 30k lines. The data is by "region" and at each change in
region there are hard coded subtotals which I need to delete as well as the
next row which has other extraneous data.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Allan

"bpeltzer" wrote:

This snippet is adapted from the VBA help screen for the find method; the
basic idea is to detect the NOTHING returned by Find before attempting to
process it:

With ActiveSheet.Cells
Set c = .Find(2, LookIn:=xlValues) ''substitute your FIND expression
If Not c Is Nothing Then
firstaddress = c.Address
Do
' whatever processing you need to do
Set c = .FindNext(c)
If (Not (c Is Nothing)) Then
If c.Address = firstaddress Then c = Nothing
End If
Loop While (Not (c Is Nothing))
End If
End With

--Bruce


"KonaAl" wrote:

Hi,

I've searched all over this forum and the help files to figure out how to
fix the below macro which works up until it can no longer find the string and
then I get a run-time error 91 on the cells.find line:
Sub delregion()
Dim x As String
x = "region total"
Do While x = "region total"
Cells.Find(What:="region total").Activate
ActiveCell.EntireRow.Select
Selection.Delete Shift:=xlUp
ActiveCell.EntireRow.Select
Selection.Delete Shift:=xlUp
Loop
End Sub

TIA for your help.

Allan