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How to delete a specific cell values in specific rows

I have a specific row, "total respondents", that repeats over and over throughout this sheet. I need to be able to search each individual cell in each row and delete all cell values that are 5 or less (in some cases, there is a "<5", others there is a 1 or 2).

I would do a simple ctrl + f and replace but there could be situations where it would affect the mean and median in other sections of the worksheet.

I attached a screen shot so you can see what i'm looking at. It literally repeats like this throughout the sheet for about 4000 rows.

Can someone assist?
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Professor J

you can use condictional formatting putting <=5 and put color then filter by color and delete the values

or you can use the following VBA code.

make sure u run this on a copy.

Sub t()
Dim c As Range

For Each c In ActiveSheet.UsedRange
If c <= 5 Then
c.ClearContents
End If
Next c
End Sub

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AnthonyHamon

On row 1 of the workbook, create a temporary header row and name the columns A, B, C, D, E etc.
Mark all used cells in the workbook, go to the 'Data' tab and select 'Filter'
Go to the top of the workbook
Locate column that contains the data labels (look likes column C from your attachment) and use the filter drop down on that column to show only the 'Total respondents' rows
Use a simple find and replace which will only affect the visible cells
Remove the filter
Remove the temporary header

nflynn85

ASKER

I'd really prefer to do this in/with VBA so I can run it again next year.

The VBA Code provided ended up wiping out values that I did not want wiped out. I want it focused only on the row for total respondents. Is that possible? Being able to replace it with —
would be really cool

Take a look at the updated picture with the code that I ran from above (testing vs testing2)
testing.PNG
testing2.PNG

Professor J

@nflynn85

if you want to replace it with — then use below code

Sub test()
Dim c As Range

For Each c In ActiveSheet.UsedRange
If c <= 5 Then
c.Value = "—"
End If
Next c
End Sub

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nflynn85

ASKER

Thanks for that update, but there was a prior issue that wasn't addressed. The values that are 5 or less need to be found on a case sensitive basis. I can't have 255 looking like 2-- or 374 looking like -7-

Does that make sense?

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Professor J

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nflynn85

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Thanks for that. I ran the code on my excel sheet and it worked fine. However, it placed dashes in all of the empty columns/rows in between tables

While I can see and read and understand what your code is doing, I don't know how to modify it so that the above code doesn't place the dashes in empty cells (see attached photo)
dashes.PNG

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nflynn85

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Thank you sir! Works like a charm. Was able to modify it to take out additional values as well. Thanks for the assist

Professor J

You're welcome I'm glad I was able to help