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Jstsmtle
Jstsmtle

Reputation: 11

Excel VBA Search for a value in a column and copy row to new sheet for all matching values

What it is supposed to do is compare a name from column G, find that name in column E and if there is a match, copy all to a new sheet. Right now the code searches for a value called Mail box, each time it finds it in range of the column E it copies the whole row to a new sheet2.

I am capable of transforming the code that instead of searching for Mail box it searches for a value in a cell G1, yet I would need the code to do it several times again for a value in row G2, G3, G4, G5...G20. 

Sub SearchForString()

   Dim LSearchRow As Integer
   Dim LCopyToRow As Integer

   On Error GoTo Err_Execute

   'Start search in row 4
   LSearchRow = 4

   'Start copying data to row 2 in Sheet2 (row counter variable)
   LCopyToRow = 2

   While Len(Range("A" & CStr(LSearchRow)).Value) > 0

      'If value in column E = "Mail Box", copy entire row to Sheet2
      If Range("E" & CStr(LSearchRow)).Value = "Mail Box" Then

         'Select row in Sheet1 to copy
         Rows(CStr(LSearchRow) & ":" & CStr(LSearchRow)).Select
         Selection.Copy

         'Paste row into Sheet2 in next row
         Sheets("Sheet2").Select
         Rows(CStr(LCopyToRow) & ":" & CStr(LCopyToRow)).Select
         ActiveSheet.Paste

         'Move counter to next row
         LCopyToRow = LCopyToRow + 1

         'Go back to Sheet1 to continue searching
         Sheets("Sheet1").Select

      End If

      LSearchRow = LSearchRow + 1

   Wend

   'Position on cell A3
   Application.CutCopyMode = False
   Range("A3").Select

   MsgBox "All matching data has been copied."

   Exit Sub

Err_Execute:
   MsgBox "An error occurred."

End Sub

Upvotes: 0

Views: 23106

Answers (1)

Grade 'Eh' Bacon
Grade 'Eh' Bacon

Reputation: 3823

Based on your comment, it seems you just want to see if any cell in column E matches any cell in Column G, and then perform your copying. You can achieve this as follows:

  'If value in column E = Matches anything in column G, copy entire row to Sheet2
  Dim searchTerm As String
  For i = 1 To 20
      searchTerm = Range("G" & i).Text
      If Range("E" & CStr(LSearchRow)).Value = searchTerm Then

         'Select row in Sheet1 to copy
         Rows(CStr(LSearchRow) & ":" & CStr(LSearchRow)).Select
         Selection.Copy

         'Paste row into Sheet2 in next row
         Sheets("Sheet2").Select
         Rows(CStr(LCopyToRow) & ":" & CStr(LCopyToRow)).Select
         ActiveSheet.Paste

         'Move counter to next row
         LCopyToRow = LCopyToRow + 1

         'Go back to Sheet1 to continue searching
         Sheets("Sheet1").Select

      End If
Next i

This simply loops through G1:G20, picks up each value of G there, and for each row of E (as looped with your While loop), it checks for each value of G and then performs the copying.

Upvotes: 1

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