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VBA Excel 2000 - Identify and select Ranges

Dear Experts,

Could you please check the attached small file on Sheet1, it contains just some cells in use, the others are blank.

Do you have idea maybe for a logic, which would check the whole sheet, and as result would identify the first and last cells of such "Blocks".

In the example I would mean on "Blocks" the

1) A1 first cell and last C10
2) E1 to H17
3) J1 to K6

As final target I would like to select the first block of data, around with ActiveSheet.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 3)).Select, format and putting totals under of it, after going to the second etc. Just for this would need to know always, that actually which is the last cell of the block, because those can change. I did it manually in the file on Target sheet.

thanks,

thanks,
RangesExample.xls

Eric Zwiekhorst

Dear csehz,

if I understand correct.

You look from Column A to the first Column with a blank.
There one Column back you calculate the sum of that column and put it underneath whith total left of that range Total, than you want to mark this range with the borders and the total line coloured yellow.
This should be repeated as asmany groups you can detect.

Question:
is always in row 1 a blank as seperation between groups?

Kind regards

Eric

csehz

ASKER

Hi Eric,

exactly and yes that is sure that always one empty column is between of these groups

thanks,

Tracy

Try this:

Sub CalculateTotals()

    tempcol = 1 'Start at column 1
    lastcol = Range(Cells(1, Columns.Count), Cells(1, Columns.Count)).End(xlToLeft).Column 'Get the very last column with data
    mycounter = WorksheetFunction.CountBlank(Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(1, lastcol))) + 1 'Count how many blanks there are
    
    For i = 1 To mycounter
        lastcol = Range(Cells(1, tempcol), Cells(1, tempcol)).End(xlToRight).Column
        lastRow = Range(Cells(Rows.Count, lastcol), Cells(Rows.Count, lastcol)).End(xlUp).Row
    
        'Add Total and Value
        Cells(lastRow + 1, tempcol).Value = "Total"
        Cells(lastRow + 1, lastcol).Value = WorksheetFunction.Sum(Range(Cells(1, lastcol), Cells(lastRow, lastcol)))
        
        'Add Highlighting
        Range(Cells(lastRow + 1, tempcol), Cells(lastRow + 1, lastcol)).Interior.ColorIndex = 36
        Range(Cells(lastRow + 1, tempcol), Cells(lastRow + 1, lastcol)).Interior.Pattern = xlSolid
        
        tempcol = lastcol + 2
    Next

End Sub

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