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Clear Sheets in Excel
Hi,
I have two sheets in an Excel file, Sheet1 and Sheet2. In Sheet1, I have data columns from A to H with an unkown number of rows. In Sheet2, I have data columns from A to Q with an unkown number of rows. Now I want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet1. And I also want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet2 with the exception that the value in cell "E2" should remain. I have created a macro as follows: ' Clear Sheet1 and Sheet2 (but keep the the first three rows) Sheet1.Range("A2", "H65000").Clear() ' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2", "D2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("F2", "Q2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("A3", "Q65000").Clear() Two issues he 1) These statements are syntactically incorrect. Could anyone correct the syntax for me? 2) I didn't intend to use "65000" as the upper bound. But how to get the maximu row number with non-empty cells? Thanks! -Emily |
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Hi Emily
you can use Sheet1.Range("A2:D2,F2:H2,A3:H" & Rows.Count).Clear -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Emily" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have two sheets in an Excel file, Sheet1 and Sheet2. In Sheet1, I have data columns from A to H with an unkown number of rows. In Sheet2, I have data columns from A to Q with an unkown number of rows. Now I want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet1. And I also want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet2 with the exception that the value in cell "E2" should remain. I have created a macro as follows: ' Clear Sheet1 and Sheet2 (but keep the the first three rows) Sheet1.Range("A2", "H65000").Clear() ' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2", "D2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("F2", "Q2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("A3", "Q65000").Clear() Two issues he 1) These statements are syntactically incorrect. Could anyone correct the syntax for me? 2) I didn't intend to use "65000" as the upper bound. But how to get the maximu row number with non-empty cells? Thanks! -Emily |
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Sheet1.Range("A2:H65000").Clear
' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2:D2").Clear Sheet2.Range("F2:Q2").Clear Sheet2.Range("A3:Q65000").Clear -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Emily" wrote: Hi, I have two sheets in an Excel file, Sheet1 and Sheet2. In Sheet1, I have data columns from A to H with an unkown number of rows. In Sheet2, I have data columns from A to Q with an unkown number of rows. Now I want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet1. And I also want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet2 with the exception that the value in cell "E2" should remain. I have created a macro as follows: ' Clear Sheet1 and Sheet2 (but keep the the first three rows) Sheet1.Range("A2", "H65000").Clear() ' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2", "D2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("F2", "Q2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("A3", "Q65000").Clear() Two issues he 1) These statements are syntactically incorrect. Could anyone correct the syntax for me? 2) I didn't intend to use "65000" as the upper bound. But how to get the maximu row number with non-empty cells? Thanks! -Emily |
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Just curious if you really wanted .clear or .clearcontents?
Emily wrote: Hi, I have two sheets in an Excel file, Sheet1 and Sheet2. In Sheet1, I have data columns from A to H with an unkown number of rows. In Sheet2, I have data columns from A to Q with an unkown number of rows. Now I want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet1. And I also want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet2 with the exception that the value in cell "E2" should remain. I have created a macro as follows: ' Clear Sheet1 and Sheet2 (but keep the the first three rows) Sheet1.Range("A2", "H65000").Clear() ' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2", "D2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("F2", "Q2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("A3", "Q65000").Clear() Two issues he 1) These statements are syntactically incorrect. Could anyone correct the syntax for me? 2) I didn't intend to use "65000" as the upper bound. But how to get the maximu row number with non-empty cells? Thanks! -Emily -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi Dave,
What's the difference between ".clear" and ".clearcontents"? -Emily |
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Hi Ron,
Rows.Count gives the maximum number of rows, 65535, inm a sheet. It doesn't give me the info I need. I need it to be 29 the maximum row # in the sheet is 29. Or 31 if the maximum row # in the sheet is 31. Hope you see what I mean. -Emily |
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Try it manually in a test worksheet/workbook.
Select a couple of cells. Put 12345 in each. Give each cell a custom format (000.00) and some nice font color on a nice fill color--add some borders. Then select one of the cells and use edit|clear|All On the other, use Edit|Clear|ClearContents You'll see the nice colors are still there on one of them. And if you type 12345 in each, you'll see that the numberformat hung around on one of them. Emily wrote: Hi Dave, What's the difference between ".clear" and ".clearcontents"? -Emily -- Dave Peterson |
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Why do you have a problem with that ?
Do you have a data that you want to keep below row 29 ? -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Emily" wrote in message ps.com... Hi Ron, Rows.Count gives the maximum number of rows, 65535, inm a sheet. It doesn't give me the info I need. I need it to be 29 the maximum row # in the sheet is 29. Or 31 if the maximum row # in the sheet is 31. Hope you see what I mean. -Emily |
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Hi Ron,
My macro automatically imports file names to the excel from a folder - each row contains one file name plus other info. Since I don't know how many files there are in the folder, I don't know how many rows there are in the Excel. When I clear the sheet, I only need to clear up to the last row in the sheet instead of clearing 65K rows which is too expensive and unnecessary (because the number of file names is only in the range of hundreds or thousands), no need to clear 65K row! Therefore, I'll need to dynamically get the row number. However, I really don't know how to get that #. -Emily |
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didn't see question 2
with worksheets("Sheet1") lastrow = .cells(rows.count,"H").End(xlup).row .Range("A2:H" & Lastrow).Clear End with With Worksheets("Sheet2") lastrow = .cells(rows.count,"Q").End(xlup).row .Range("A2:D2").Clear .Range("F2:Q2").Clear .Range("A3:Q" & lastrow).Clear End With -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote: Sheet1.Range("A2:H65000").Clear ' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2:D2").Clear Sheet2.Range("F2:Q2").Clear Sheet2.Range("A3:Q65000").Clear -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Emily" wrote: Hi, I have two sheets in an Excel file, Sheet1 and Sheet2. In Sheet1, I have data columns from A to H with an unkown number of rows. In Sheet2, I have data columns from A to Q with an unkown number of rows. Now I want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet1. And I also want to clear everything from row 2 in Sheet2 with the exception that the value in cell "E2" should remain. I have created a macro as follows: ' Clear Sheet1 and Sheet2 (but keep the the first three rows) Sheet1.Range("A2", "H65000").Clear() ' The cell of E2 should NOT be cleared! Sheet2.Range("A2", "D2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("F2", "Q2").Clear() Sheet2.Range("A3", "Q65000").Clear() Two issues he 1) These statements are syntactically incorrect. Could anyone correct the syntax for me? 2) I didn't intend to use "65000" as the upper bound. But how to get the maximu row number with non-empty cells? Thanks! -Emily |
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See Tom's reply
-- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Emily" wrote in message ups.com... Hi Ron, My macro automatically imports file names to the excel from a folder - each row contains one file name plus other info. Since I don't know how many files there are in the folder, I don't know how many rows there are in the Excel. When I clear the sheet, I only need to clear up to the last row in the sheet instead of clearing 65K rows which is too expensive and unnecessary (because the number of file names is only in the range of hundreds or thousands), no need to clear 65K row! Therefore, I'll need to dynamically get the row number. However, I really don't know how to get that #. -Emily |
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Thanks Tom!
I think this is the answer I was looking for. Let me try it. -Emily Tom Ogilvy wrote: didn't see question 2 with worksheets("Sheet1") lastrow = .cells(rows.count,"H").End(xlup).row .Range("A2:H" & Lastrow).Clear End with With Worksheets("Sheet2") lastrow = .cells(rows.count,"Q").End(xlup).row .Range("A2:D2").Clear .Range("F2:Q2").Clear .Range("A3:Q" & lastrow).Clear End With -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy |
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