Dave, I apologize for not being more specific. I am using MS Excel 2007. I
have a column in a worksheet that contains rows (of course), some of which
contain text (a mixture of unicode and non-unicode), some of which are blank
(empty / no text). The entire column contains material that was pasted in
from external data, and everything is in entire column 16-point font (the
heights of the rows varies according to the content of the cells. I want to
reduce the size (height) of the empty / blank rows in the entire column to
8-points, that is half the current height.

Now when if I select the current 16-point row and select 8-point font, the
height of the row is thereby reduced (of course). Apparently (I could be
wrong) the macro you provided is aimed at reducing the font size of the
contents of the rows, not the height, but shouldn't the height reduction
happen anyway? To repeat: I want to reduce the size /height of the rows, from
the current 16-point (the entire column) to 8-point (half the size). This
applies only to those rows that are empty of text.

When I run the macro you created, the worksheet column flickers / blinks and
appear to be louping (it acts like a macro that is struggling -- how is this
for a newbie explanation?). When I press ESCAPE, the debug window show a
yellow highlight at the "End If" line of the macro (and nothing has been
changed in the column). I could do a Camtasia so you could see what's
happening, if you think my explanation above it inadequate. Again, thanks for
your help.


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

First, what are you trying to do?

Are you changing the font size (for the characters) or the rowheight?

Second, I don't understand what "It still stops at the End If" statement means.

Maybe you could explain what you want and what is happening in a little more
detail.


Rebecca wrote:

Thanks, Dave, but it still doesn't work. It still stops at the End If. Do you
need more information about the worksheet (for example, it contains a mixture
of unicode fonts and non-unicode fonts). Is that what's causing the problem?
As you can see, I am a new user and I'm unable to program a macro.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Your macro is changing the font for the cells in the empty rows.

That means that you really won't see anything until you type something in one of
those cells.

If you really wanted to change the rowheight of those empty rows to 8, you could
use:

Option Explicit
Sub Reduce_Height_of_Empty_Rows2()
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim I As Long
LastRow = Cells.SpecialCells(xlLastCell).Row
For I = LastRow To 2 Step -1
If Application.CountA(Rows(I)) = 0 Then
Rows(I).RowHeight = 8
End If
Next I
End Sub

Rebecca wrote:

I am using MS Excel 2007. A month or so ago I asked for help to reduce the
size of blank rows (currently 16 points) down to 8 points. The Excel experts
advised me to try this macro:

Sub Reduce_Height_of_Empty_Rows()
'-- Reduce_Height_of_Empty_Rows to 8pts
' D.McRitchie, 2008-02-23 in excel.newusers
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim I As Long
' Cells.Font.Size = 16
LastRow = Cells.SpecialCells(xlLastCell).Row
For I = LastRow To 2 Step -1
If Application.CountA(Cells(I, 1).EntireRow) = 0 Then
Cells(I, 1).EntireRow.Font.Size = 8
End If
Next I
End Sub

Whenever I run this macro, it doesn't do the job intended (it's hard to
explain -- because I know nothing about programming -- but it looks like the
macro is running in loops -- the rows appear to be stuttering, but not
reducing the size from 16 to 8), and when I press Escape, the debug is yellow
highlight at the "End IF" line.

As I mentioned above I know absolutely nothing about macro creation, so I am
at a loss as to what the problem is. Could one of the MVP Excel experts take
a quick look again at the macro above and give me some advice? Thank you.

--

Dave Peterson


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Dave Peterson