I am trying to automate many of the task that I do with excel. One of those
tasks it to sort a database. I've made a macro to do most of the work for me
but one aspect has stumped me.

I want to delete rows in the spreadsheet by what their memeber number is.
Example:
Column A contains the members numbers.
members from gym X are as follows: X0001, X0002, X0003, etc.
members from gym Y are as follows: Y0001, Y0002, Y0003, etc.
members from gym Z are as follows: Z0001, Z0002, Z0003, etc. (you get the
idea)

I want to delete any members from gym X and Z (or any other crazy number in
the database) but keep my members for gym Y.
The amount of members is always changing. Any suggestions?

Why not simply filter the database for the gym members you want to
delete, delete the filtered rows and undo the filter?

HTH


On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:18:03 -0800, "Raza"
wrote:

I am trying to automate many of the task that I do with excel. One of those
tasks it to sort a database. I've made a macro to do most of the work for me
but one aspect has stumped me.

I want to delete rows in the spreadsheet by what their memeber number is.
Example:
Column A contains the members numbers.
members from gym X are as follows: X0001, X0002, X0003, etc.
members from gym Y are as follows: Y0001, Y0002, Y0003, etc.
members from gym Z are as follows: Z0001, Z0002, Z0003, etc. (you get the
idea)

I want to delete any members from gym X and Z (or any other crazy number in
the database) but keep my members for gym Y.
The amount of members is always changing. Any suggestions?

RB
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Dim sourcerow
sourcerow = 1
While Cells(sourcerow, 1) < ""
if left(cells(sourcerow,1))<"Y" then
rows(sourcerow & ":" & sourcerow).delete
else
sourcerow = sourcerow + 1
end if
Wend
This just continues until it finds column A blank in the next sourcerow.
While not blank, it checks for members not like Y* and deletes such rows. If
this is a long list, you may want to turn screenupdating off before the loop
and back on after (application.screenupdating = false,
application.screenupdating = true).
--Bruce


"Raza" wrote:

I am trying to automate many of the task that I do with excel. One of those
tasks it to sort a database. I've made a macro to do most of the work for me
but one aspect has stumped me.

I want to delete rows in the spreadsheet by what their memeber number is.
Example:
Column A contains the members numbers.
members from gym X are as follows: X0001, X0002, X0003, etc.
members from gym Y are as follows: Y0001, Y0002, Y0003, etc.
members from gym Z are as follows: Z0001, Z0002, Z0003, etc. (you get the
idea)

I want to delete any members from gym X and Z (or any other crazy number in
the database) but keep my members for gym Y.
The amount of members is always changing. Any suggestions?

And just to add to RB-MC's reply:

You can choose a custom filter of "begins with" to show the X##### cells.

Then you can delete the visible rows and do it again.

RB-MC wrote:

Why not simply filter the database for the gym members you want to
delete, delete the filtered rows and undo the filter?

HTH

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:18:03 -0800, "Raza"
wrote:

I am trying to automate many of the task that I do with excel. One of those
tasks it to sort a database. I've made a macro to do most of the work for me
but one aspect has stumped me.

I want to delete rows in the spreadsheet by what their memeber number is.
Example:
Column A contains the members numbers.
members from gym X are as follows: X0001, X0002, X0003, etc.
members from gym Y are as follows: Y0001, Y0002, Y0003, etc.
members from gym Z are as follows: Z0001, Z0002, Z0003, etc. (you get the
idea)

I want to delete any members from gym X and Z (or any other crazy number in
the database) but keep my members for gym Y.
The amount of members is always changing. Any suggestions?

RB
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--

Dave Peterson