Help with Excel Visual Basic code

You need to reference the sheet where you are trying to get the last row and column, something like this:

jppinto

Dim ws as Worksheet
Dim lstRow as Long
Dim lstCol as Long

Set ws=Sheets("Sheet1")

lstRow = ws.Cells(ws.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).row
lstCol = ws.Cells(1, ws.columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

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Thanks for the rapid response!

Glad it helped and thanks to you as well for the rapid response.

Chris

snailcat: did you at least tryed my code? Basically does the same as Chris, pointing out that your last row and last column definition was not OK, the rest of the code he posted was the same that you had!

@snailcat

I'll join the Joao choir on this one: Can you comment on why you picked Chris's (very valid) answer over the other two?

Thomas

From my perspective folke you retained the:

ws.Cells(ws.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).row syntax

this fails at times if the row or column being addressed does not have data to the end of the range.

What you seem to be missing about my post is:

ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows(ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Row takes the last column or row of the used range i.e. last of all columns/rows rather than a defined row or column.

Chris

Chris, I used currentRegion, not lastRow, because I expected the issue to be an empty last cell.

T

Indeed thomas but current region still falls over if data is placed outside the A1 region such that there is a clear column / row between hence it is still the same limitation in principle.

Chris

Hi All--
Appreciate everybody's comments and assistance.

FYI my dataset has a blank cell in the first and last column of the last row of data which was why my code was failing.

I was viewing this on my phone and I missed @nutsch's code when it was posted, so I apologize in advance since that was the first solution.  I did test it afterwards and it works fine with my dataset.

@jppinto--your solution did not work--it found the last column but it missed the last row so that the formatted table range was short by 1 row.

At least in my dataset the solutions by @nutsch and @chris_bottomley worked equally well for my dataset.  I apologize for not splitting the points since both solutions took care of my problem.  I have been an expert in similar situations and hate when that happens.

THANKS again!

No issue for the points. The question was my for my learning process. Thanks for the explanation.

Thomas