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VBA macro to find text strings in excel cells

Asked by jss56 in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Visual Basic v1.0.5.x, Microsoft Office Suite

Tags: excel, vba, macro, text, strings, cells, visual basic

Hi, I have a macro that goes down through a column in a document and if a cell has the word "check" in it, it'll check the row of that cell and check it out. How I want to "check" it is to see if one of the cells in the row has certain text like "drive," "street," "avenue," etc (this is an address correction program), and if it's adjacent cell has "dr" or "st" or "ave" etc.

The code I currently have gives me a "mismatch" error, and I'm somewhat of a novice in visual basic so I don't understand what's wrong. Whenever I see that one row of cells has "street" in a cell and in the next one is a "st" then I want to change the active cell from "check" to "exact match."

On a similar note, is there anyway to ignore punctuation in a cell when scanning the cells for discrepancies? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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             Sub ErrorRateAnalysis()
 
 
Set excelReport = ActiveWorkbook
 
 
Range("R2").Select
 
Do While Not ActiveCell.Value = ""
    rng = ActiveCell.Address
    ActiveCell.EntireRow.RowHeight = 15
    If ActiveCell.Offset(0, -13).Value = "check" Then
        If ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value = ActiveCell.Offset(0, -11).Value Then
            If ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value = ActiveCell.Offset(0, -12).Value Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "drive", "road") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "dr", "rd") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "street", "avenue") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "st", "ave") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "boulevard", "place") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "blvd", "pl") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "lane", "court") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "ln", "ct") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "northeast", "northwest") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "ne", "nw") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "north", "south") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "n", "s") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "southeast", "southwest") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "se", "sw") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
        ElseIf InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -15).Value, "east", "west") Then
            If InStr(ActiveCell.Offset(0, -14).Value, "e", "w") Then
                ActiveCell.Value = "exact match"
            End If
            
        End If
        
        
    End If
    
    If ActiveCell.Value = "check" Then
        ButtonMacro (rng)
    End If
    
 
    ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
 
End Sub

           
         

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VBA macro to find text strings in excel cells

Asked by jss56 in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software, Visual Basic v1.0.5.x, Microsoft Office Suite

Tags: excel, vba, macro, text, strings, cells, visual basic

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