Hi,

I'm trying to write a procedure that will run through a column of data and
hide the rows that do not match a particular criteria. I'm fairly new at
this and so I'm sure this is a very obvious problem! I have a column of
data every cell of which has a comment. What I want to do is to enter a
search term to search within the comments text.........

The main difficulty I'm having is getting the active cell row and column
values (which I've called "r" and "c" respectively). At the moment the
ActiveCell.Row reads empty even when I can see the damn thing with a word in
it and a comment attached!

The x and y variables will be used as a message box at the end so I can see
how many have been filtered. I'll also be putting in a dialogue box to
capture the search term (although I might save that for another post unless
anyone is feeling extra helpful).

Anyway, thanks in advance

John



Sub SearchComments()

Dim SearchTerm As String
Dim rgCurrentCell As Range
Dim x As Variant
Dim y As Variant


'Check active cell at top of list
Answer = MsgBox(Prompt:="Is cell at top of comments filled list?",
Buttons:=vbYesNo + vbQuestion)
If Answer = vbNo Then Exit Sub

r = ActiveCell.Row
c = ActiveCell.Column

x = 0 'No. of visible rows
y = 0 'No. of processed rows

Set rgCurrentCell = Cells(r, c)

Do
If IsEmpty(Cells(r, c)) Then
MsgBox "Current cell is empty"
Exit Do
End If
If rgCurrentCell.Comment.Text = "music" Then x = x + 1 Else
Rows(r).EntireRow.Hidden = True

y = y + 1
r = r + 1
Loop


End Sub