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About Tom Ogilvy
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Worked with the program for many years - provided assistance on MS Excel Newsgroups since 1997. Have received the Microsoft MVP award annually since 1999. I don't answer questions on using Excel in a browser Since I have no way to test this. Prefer not to answer charting questions. I consider myself to be particularly knowledgeable about using VBA internal to Excel but have no problems with formulas and pivot tables either.

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Have Used Excel for 15 - 20 years. Answered in excess of 70,000 Excel related questions in MS Excel newsgroups. Unless obvious, please specify whether you want a worksheet function or macro/VBA solution.

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BS General Engineering (concentration in Industrial Engineering) MS Operations Research Systems Analysis

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Excel - Hiding rows with blank value

Expert: Tom Ogilvy - 11/7/2009

Question
The spreadsheet containing a list box which enable user to drill down by Region and the results will show by countries. Where North America Region could contain only two country and Latin America Region has 18 countries.

In Cell C5 is a list box
and returning value in range B11:J37 and B44:J69.

For example:    C5
Issuing Region:   NORTH_AMERICA
B11     B12
USA     500
CANADA   700

My question is how can I write a vb or macro to automatically hide the rows that are blank when the user choose a region they want to see.

I hope you could help me with this question.

Many thanks.

Regards,
Sian

Answer
Sian,

Let's assume that column B can be used to determine which rows are blank - i.e. if a cell in column B is blank, then the row needs to be hidden. Assume that values in column B are constants and if a cell appears blank, it is, in fact, empty. Then you can use code like this:

Range("B:B").SpecialCells(xlBlanks).EntireRow.Visible = False

or

Range("B2",Cells(rows.count,"B").End(xlup).SpecialCells(xlBlanks).EntireRow.Visible = False

Are the type of macro you can use if you can depend on column B to accurately reflect which rows are blank or not - or use a column that can.

Hope that is what you were asking.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

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