AboutBill Expertise I can provide help with most all EXCEL questions and most all questions about
writing EXCEL macros. I have been developing macros for about 10 years in
EXCEL and have switched to it from Lotus 1-2-3 after about 10 years of writing
macros in it. Typically, I will not write a macro for you unless it is very short because of all the details a macro has to know about to work every time all the time. Please understand that I do not know it all and will be the first to say so.
As politely as possible, I don't write macros for people on this site who need one, want one, seem to imply that they need one, and/or seem to think I am expected to write one UNLESS they are very short, quick, and simple.
99% of all macros are more involved than what you think and rarely am I provided with enough specific and complete details to have the code work the first time and every time. This typically means too many follow-up emails, and subsequent macro changes due to lack of specific details, just to get those details so that the macro would work, all of which is on my own free time.
The voice of experience from responding to many questions from people who ask me to write a macro for them from this site tells me this. I don't mean to come across as unhelpful but macros are usually very specific and without ALL of the specifics the macro I would write will not address all of your needs and the layout, location, formatting, conditions, etc. of your data and any related files the macro would have to work with.
What seems like a simple task to you is almost always more involved than what you think to have the macro ALWAYS work in EVERY situation.
If you have a macro you have already written and have a question about it then perhaps I could help with that. I am sure and hope you can and do understand.
Question Hello Bill,
I want to say thank you in advance for your willingness to share your time and knowledge. I have written a macro that will copy data from a working sheet to another sheet within the same workbook for historical purposes. The only thing that I cannot figure out is how to verify that all of the cells I am copying have data in them. An empty cell would mean that the copy process occurred before all necessary data was entered. I have already created data validation scenario's for the necessary cells. Can you tell me how to verify/validate that each cell being copied has some type of data when the macro is run before it copies and clears the contents? Here is the current macro I am using.
Range("A5:L5").Select
Selection.Copy
Sheets("Saved").Select
Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown
Sheets("Current").Select
Range("B5:K5").Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False
Selection.ClearContents
End Sub
Thanks again,
Jimmy
Answer You have to loop thru each cell FIRST, something like:
Dim Data_Complete as Boolean
For X = 1 to 12
'checks to see if the cell has data
If Range("A5").Offset(X-1,0) = "" Then
Data_Complete = False
End if
Next X
If Data_Complete = True Then
'run your code
Else
Msgbox "Data is incomplete, data should not be copied"
End If
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