Selection.offset(0,-1).Resize(,1).Delete Shift:=xltoleft
selection.offset(0,-1).Select


may or may not be useful

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy




"Wild Bill" wrote in message
...
Richard that is superbly succinct - too bad it doesn't reselect the way
he wants it to (I tried to adapt it but couldn't). Also you probably
meant to use -1 instead of 1.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:06:41 -0700, "Richard Daniels"
wrote:

Sub moveCells()
Selection.Cut Destination:=Range(Selection.Offset(0,
1).Address)
End Sub


-----Original Message-----
I need a quick macro that will take the current
selection
of cells and move them all one cell to the left,
overwriting the existing cell content.

I've got a huge spreadsheet (being used as a data source
for a Word merge) that needs this for lots of the
records
(59,000 of them!), and it's taking a long time grabbing
a
selection with the mouse and manually moving them
across. I'd like a macro I could assign to a shortcut
key and just select the required cells and hit and
shortcut key for as many 'left-shifts' of the cells as I
required.

Could anyone help me? Thanks

Steve
.

Brilliant. At first glance my simple brain thought it would lose the
column width of the selection from the (,1) -- but of course it doesn't
since it operates on the offset, not the selection itself. Shrewd.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:59:10 -0400, "Tom Ogilvy"
wrote:

Selection.offset(0,-1).Resize(,1).Delete Shift:=xltoleft
selection.offset(0,-1).Select


may or may not be useful