Article ID: 151344
Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q151344
SUMMARY
Using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel, you can copy a single instance of a record type to another worksheet.
MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. To illustrate this, in a new workbook on Sheet1, enter the following:
A1: Part no. B1: Description C1: On Hand D1: Store
A2: 10AB B2: Nuts C2: 1 D2: 1
A3: 11AB B3: Bolts C3: 2 D3: 2
A4: 10AB B4: Nuts C4: 3 D4: 3
A5: 12AB B5: Nuts C5: 4 D5: 4
A6: 11AB B6: Bolts C6: 5 D6: 5
On Sheet2, enter the following:
A1: Part no. B1: Description C1: On Hand D1: Store
The following macro searches the "Part no." field and copies each non- duplicate "Part no." to a second worksheet. It copies the first unique "Part no." to Sheet2.
Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Type the following macro in a new module sheet:
Sub CopyNoDupes()
' Selects sheet1.
Worksheets("sheet1").select
' Selects cell A2.
Range("a2").Select
' Turns off screen updating, which helps macro run faster.
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
' Will run the below code until the active cell is blank.
Do While ActiveCell.Value <> ""
' Flag is used to determine whether the record should be pasted
' to Sheet2.
flag = True
' The variable value1 is assigned the value in the currently
' selected cell, initially cell A2.
valuea = ActiveCell.Value
' Valueb is assigned the value in the cell one column to the
' right of the activecell, initially cell B2.
valueb = ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Value
' Beginaddrs is assigned the address of the activecell.
beginaddrs = ActiveCell.Address
' Endaddrs is assigned the address of the last contiguous cell
' of data on the active row.
endaddrs = ActiveCell.End(xlToRight).Address
' Copies the current row's record to Clipboard.
Range(beginaddrs & ":" & endaddrs).Copy
' Selects sheet2.
Sheets("sheet2").Select
' Selects cell A2.
Range("a2").Select
' Determine if the record type has already been copied to
' Sheet2.
Do While ActiveCell.Value <> ""
' If valuea, which contains the value from sheet1, equals
' the active cell's value in sheet2, and valueb equals
' the value in the cell immediately to the right of the
' active cell, then do the lines before the Else.
If valuea = ActiveCell.Value And valueb = _
ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Value Then
' Flag used in an If statement below. False indicates do
' not paste record.
flag = False
' Rowcount is assigned the current number of contiguous
' rows of records.
rowcount = Range("a1").CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
' Selects a blank row to exit out of Do While.
Range("a" & rowcount).Offset(1, 0).Select
Else
' Otherwise, select next record on Sheet2.
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
End If
' Check next record for a duplicate.
Loop
' If flag was not set to False in the previous Do While Loop,
' for example, record type not in sheet2, then do the lines
' before the End If.
If flag Then
' Rowcount is assigned the current number of contiguous rows
' of records.
rowcount = Range("a1").CurrentRegion.Rows.Count
' Pastes the new record type after the last record.
Range("a" & rowcount).Offset(1, 0).PasteSpecial
End If
' Selects sheet1.
Sheets("sheet1").Select
' Selects the next record on Sheet1.
Range(beginaddrs).Offset(1, 0).Select
' Returns back to first Do While to repeat the above process.
Loop
' Turns ScreenUpdating back on.
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
' Removes the marquee around last copied record.
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End Sub
REFERENCES
For more information about the Copy method in Microsoft Excel 97, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type Copy, click Search, and then click to view "Copy Method."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions
In Microsoft Excel version 7.0, for more information about any of the Visual Basic for Applications commands used in this article, click Help, Contents, Microsoft Visual Basic Excel Reference.
In Microsoft Excel version 5.0, for more information about any of the Visual Basic for Applications commands used in this article, click Help, Contents, Programming with Visual Basic, Programming Language Summary. Click the appropriate letter to look up the command.
Additional query words: 5.00a 5.00c 8.00 XL98 XL97 XL7 XL5 XL
Keywords: kbhowto kbprogramming kbdtacode KB151344
