I'm working on a program that works with a lot of dates. I found that if I
set a date variable equal to a cell that might contain a date or might be
empty, if the cell is empty, it returns "12:00:00 AM" which I assume to be
midnight, Jan. 1, 1900, which is more difficult to test for than a blank
cell. So it seems to me that it would be better to use a variant type
variable here instead of a date variable since I have to test for blank
cells. The variant returns "empty" for blank cells, and dates for cells
with dates in them. Am I on the right track, or headed off on a spur?

If I do use the variants, how do I test for "Empty"? Is it just "If rRange
= "empty", or do I need to use something else? Will testing for "" work for
this? Basically, I have several tests where if the cell is blank, do
something, if it has a date in it, do something else.

Any thoughts any of you experts has on working with dates and blank cells
will be greatly appreciated.

The problem is not the empty cell, that is returning the empty string; the
problem is you are putting it into a variable declared as being of type
Date. However, this is not hard to test for at all...

If YourDateVariable = 0 Then 'Assume there is no date in the cell

or, you could test the cell directly...

If Range("A1").Value = "" Then 'There is nothing in the cell

Rick


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I'm working on a program that works with a lot of dates. I found that if I
set a date variable equal to a cell that might contain a date or might be
empty, if the cell is empty, it returns "12:00:00 AM" which I assume to be
midnight, Jan. 1, 1900, which is more difficult to test for than a blank
cell. So it seems to me that it would be better to use a variant type
variable here instead of a date variable since I have to test for blank
cells. The variant returns "empty" for blank cells, and dates for cells
with dates in them. Am I on the right track, or headed off on a spur?

If I do use the variants, how do I test for "Empty"? Is it just "If rRange
= "empty", or do I need to use something else? Will testing for "" work
for
this? Basically, I have several tests where if the cell is blank, do
something, if it has a date in it, do something else.

Any thoughts any of you experts has on working with dates and blank cells
will be greatly appreciated.

test for 0

Cliff Edwards