I'm okay with formulas in excel, but have never done much on macros or vb. I now have an issue where I'm pretty sure I will need a more complext macro than my skills at this point. I have a large file that is imported from an ERP type application to excel. The file is generally around 25000-35000 rows. I'm trying to get the data cleaned up to enable sorting, custom filtering and pivot table creation. There few key things I'm trying to automate

A: Deleting rows that have certain text in them. Generally, the text would be in the same column. For the most part these are subtotal type rows, but not always
B. Formatting a cell based on the text value of a cell beside it. Specifically, I have cell that has the $ amount and is formatted as a number (e.g. 5416.38), but in the column beside it is a blank cell or the text "CR" (i.e. credit). What I want to do is if the cell is CR then format the number cell as a negative number (e.g. -5416.38)

There are hundreds of these rows and thousands of these CR entries

Thanks...steve

Try this first
http://www.rondebruin.nl/delete.htm

Post back if you need more help


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"Steve" wrote in message ...
I'm okay with formulas in excel, but have never done much on macros or vb. I now have an issue where I'm pretty sure I will
need a more complext macro than my skills at this point. I have a large file that is imported from an ERP type application to
excel. The file is generally around 25000-35000 rows. I'm trying to get the data cleaned up to enable sorting, custom filtering
and pivot table creation. There few key things I'm trying to automate:

A: Deleting rows that have certain text in them. Generally, the text would be in the same column. For the most part these are
subtotal type rows, but not always.
B. Formatting a cell based on the text value of a cell beside it. Specifically, I have cell that has the $ amount and is
formatted as a number (e.g. 5416.38), but in the column beside it is a blank cell or the text "CR" (i.e. credit). What I want to
do is if the cell is CR then format the number cell as a negative number (e.g. -5416.38).

There are hundreds of these rows and thousands of these CR entries.

Thanks...steve

I hope the following code below helps out

Sub DeletingRows(

caseText As Strin
Range("A1").Select 'Assumes the value used for deleting row is in column A
'change value to column where value is located

Do Until x = 10 'Change number for extra number of blanks between dat

Select Case (caseText
Case Is = "Sub Total" 'You can change to any value you wish to delet
Selection.EntireRow.Delet
Case Is = "Total" 'You can add as many Case is ="TEXT" line as neede
Selection.EntireRow.Delet
Case Is = "" 'blank cell valu
Selection.EntireRow.Delet
End Selec
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Selec
x = x +
Loo

End Su

Sub ChangingCredit(

Dim credit As Strin

Range("C7").Select 'starting poin

Do Until x = 10 'Change number for extra number of blanks between dat
rng = ActiveCel
credit = ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Range("A1").Value 'assuming Cr right of numbe
If credit = "CR" The
ActiveCell.Value = rng * -
End I
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Selec
x = x +
Loo
End Su

----- Steve wrote: ----

I'm okay with formulas in excel, but have never done much on macros or vb. I now have an issue where I'm pretty sure I will need a more complext macro than my skills at this point. I have a large file that is imported from an ERP type application to excel. The file is generally around 25000-35000 rows. I'm trying to get the data cleaned up to enable sorting, custom filtering and pivot table creation. There few key things I'm trying to automate

A: Deleting rows that have certain text in them. Generally, the text would be in the same column. For the most part these are subtotal type rows, but not always
B. Formatting a cell based on the text value of a cell beside it. Specifically, I have cell that has the $ amount and is formatted as a number (e.g. 5416.38), but in the column beside it is a blank cell or the text "CR" (i.e. credit). What I want to do is if the cell is CR then format the number cell as a negative number (e.g. -5416.38)

There are hundreds of these rows and thousands of these CR entries

Thanks...steve

Sorry about the other coding. I hope this helps out

Sub DeletingRows(

Range("A1").Select 'Assumes the value used for deleting row is in column A
'change value to column where value is located

Do Until x = 10 'Change number for extra number of blanks between dat
caseText = ActiveCell.Valu
Select Case (caseText
Case Is = "Sub Total", "sub total" 'You can change to any value you wish to delet
Selection.EntireRow.Delet
y =
Case Is = "Total", "total" 'You can add as many Case is ="TEXT" line as neede
Selection.EntireRow.Delet
y =
Case Is = "" 'blank cell valu
Selection.EntireRow.Delet
y =
End Selec
If y = 1 The
Els
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Selec
End I
If ActiveCell = "" The
x = x +
Els
x =
End I
y =
Loo

End Su
Sub ChangingCredit(

Dim credit As Strin

Range("B1").Select 'starting poin

Do Until x = 10 'Change number for extra number of blanks between dat
rng = ActiveCel
credit = ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Range("A1").Value 'assuming Cr right of numbe
If credit = "CR" Or credit = "cr" Or credit = "Cr" The
ActiveCell.Value = rng * -
End I
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Selec
If ActiveCell = "" The
x = x +
Els
x =
End I
Loo
End Su

David/Ro

Thanks so much. They both worked wonderfully. I'm amazed at the expertise on this site and the knowledge I gain every time I ask for help. Thanks for sharing yours

Steve