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Unlocking few cells.................................................................................................................. 1Locking all cells in the sheet .................................................................................................. 1Unlocking few cells.................................................................................................................. 1Protecting the sheet ................................................................................................................ 1Un-protecting the sheet .......................................................................................................... 2Inserting a row above row 4.................................................................................................. 2

Formatting row 4 same as row 3.......................................................................................... 2Sorting out Data with headers wrt heading in A1 ............................................................... 2Sorting on two fields ascending or descending............................................................... 2Copying & Pasting row ........................................................................................................... 2Clearing contents of few cells............................................................................................... 3Retreiving column number or row number of the selected cell........................................ 3Selecting entire row and deleting row .................................................................................. 3Checking if the cell has formula ............................................................................................ 3Selecting another sheet......................................................................................................... 3Running another macro from within the macro.................................................................. 3Adding formula ......................................................................................................................... 3Adding current date and time ................................................................................................ 4

Hiding Columns / Un-hiding columns ................................................................................... 4Sample macro to hide selected rows................................................................................... 4Selecting all cells and paste special values ........................................................................ 4Checking the error values in cells......................................................................................... 5Subroutine for deleting rows based on error values.......................................................... 5Inserting columns .................................................................................................................... 5Deleting column ....................................................................................................................... 6Formatting column as 0.0...................................................................................................... 6Changing width of a column and applying centre format................................................. 6

Unlocking few cells

Range("A3,B3,C3,E3,F3").SelectSelection.Locked = FalseSelection.FormulaHidden = False

Locking all cells in the sheet

Cells.SelectSelection.Locked = TrueSelection.FormulaHidden = True

[Thus the formulas will not be visible]

Unlocking few cells

Cells(rno, 1).Locked = False

Protecting the sheet

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ActiveSheet.Protect DrawingObjects:=True, Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True

Un-protecting the sheet

ActiveSheet.Unprotect

Inserting a row above row 4

Rows("4:4").SelectSelection.Insert Shift:=xlDown

Formatting row 4 same as row 3

Rows("3:3").SelectSelection.CopyRows("4:4").Select

Selection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats, Operation:=xlNone, _SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=FalseApplication.CutCopyMode = False

Sorting out Data with headers wrt heading in A1

Columns("A:AZ").SelectSelection.Sort Key1:=Range("A2"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlGuess, _

OrderCustom:=1, MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, _DataOption1:=xlSortNormal

Sorting on two fields ascending or descending

Range("A:G").select.

Selection.Sort Key1:=Range("D2"), Order1:=xlDescending, Key2:= _Range("E2"), Order2:=xlAscending, Header:=xlGuess, OrderCustom:=1, _MatchCase:=False, Orientation:=xlTopToBottom, DataOption1:=xlSortNormal, _DataOption2:=xlSortNormal

Copying & Pasting row

Rows("2:2").SelectSelection.CopyRows("3:3").SelectActiveSheet.PasteApplication.CutCopyMode = False

Example 2

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Rows("16:30").SelectSelection.CopyCells(rno, 1).SelectActiveSheet.Paste

Clearing contents of few cells

Range("A3,B3,C3,E3,F3").SelectSelection.ClearContents

Cells(rno, 1).ClearContents

Retreiving column number or row number of the selected cell

cno = ActiveCell.Cells.Columnrno = ActiveCell.Cells.Row

Selecting entire row and deleting row

Cells(rno, cno).EntireRow.SelectSelection.Delete Shift:=xlUp

Checking if the cell has formula

If Cells(rno, 4).HasFormula = True Then

Selecting another sheet

Sheets("Associates").Select

Running another macro from within the macro

Application.Run "'2 Digits L3.xls'!AddCols1"

Application.Run "AddCols1"

Adding formula

Cells(rnoA, cnoA + 1).SelectActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=RC[-1] + " & Weeks

Cells(rno, 12).SelectActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=IF(RC[-5]="""","""",IF(RC[-7]=""JR"","""",IF(RC[-7]=""EG"","""",RC[-1] + " & 84 & ")))"

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ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=R[-1]C+R[-1]C[-1]"

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=VLOOKUP(RC[-1],Details!C[-9]:C[-7],2,FALSE)"

Adding current date and time

Cells(14, 9) = DateCells(15, 9) = Time

Hiding Columns / Un-hiding columns

Columns("A:EU").SelectSelection.EntireColumn.Hidden = False

Range( _

"B:K,M:N,Q:Z,AB:AC,AF:AO,AQ:AR,AU:BD,BF:BG,BJ:BS,BU:BV,BY:CH,CJ:CK,CN:CW,CY:CZ,DC:DL,DN:DO,DR:EA,EC:ED,EG:EP,ER:ES" _

).SelectSelection.EntireColumn.Hidden = True

Sample macro to hide selected rows

' Hiding selected rows if Amount not deposited

If Cells(rno + 9, 3) = 1 Then

rnoU = 2

Do While rnoU < rno

If Cells(rnoU, 23) = 0 ThenCells(rnoU, 23).EntireRow.SelectSelection.EntireRow.Hidden = FalseElseCells(rnoU, 23).EntireRow.SelectSelection.EntireRow.Hidden = TrueEnd If

rnoU = rnoU + 1

Loop

End If

Selecting all cells and paste special values

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Cells.SelectSelection.CopySelection.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks _

:=False, Transpose:=FalseApplication.CutCopyMode = False

Checking the error values in cells

Create a cell that has an error

Cells(rno, 14).SelectActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=RC[-12] - 1"

IF IsError(Cells(rno, 36)) = True Then

Else

Cells(rno, 24).SelectActiveSheet.Paste

End If

Subroutine for deleting rows based on error values

Do While rno

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Deleting column

Columns("AK:AK").SelectSelection.Delete Shift:=xlToLeft

Formatting column as 0.0

Columns("C:C").SelectSelection.NumberFormat = "0.0"

Changing width of a column and applying centre format

Columns("A:A").SelectSelection.ColumnWidth = 5.29Columns("A:A").SelectWith Selection

.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenterEnd With

*Better way to give column width

Columns("W:W").ColumnWidth = 40.14