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I need to create what I thought would be a very simple macro; select some
rows, delete them, and then do a File - Save As, and save the file out as a tab delimited ascii text file. Simple, right? That's what I thought. Except that I need to select those rows based on certain criteria. The spreadsheet in question has seven columns it is using. The first row in the spreadsheet contains the column names. The fifth column is called Server Tested (it is column E). The cells in this column can have only one of four possible values; www1 or www2 or www3 or www5. What I need to do is to select all the rows that have a cell, in the 5th column of the row, that has a value of www2 or www3 or www5 (all rows where that cell has a value of www1 I want to be left alone), and then delete those rows. Now, if this were a database and I was using SQL, I might use something similar to this: Delete * from tablename (where ([dbname.tablename.fieldname] = "www2") or ([dbname.tablename.fieldname] = "www3" or ([dbname.tablename.fieldname] = "www5")) That might not be exactly correct syntax, but you get the idea. But I can't find anything anwhere in the Excel menu structure that will even let me select rows based specific criteria. I was able to get Excel to select specific cells based on specific criteria, but it only selected the cell, not the entire row that the cell was in. And then it did offer me any way to do a delete after selecting the cells (even if it had, it wouldn't have done me any good because I needed to delete the whole row, not just that specific cell). Can you tell me how to do what I need to do? |
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