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Karthi notes that he often needs to use Go To Special to select just the visible cells in a selection. This makes him wonder if there is a way that such cells can be selected in a macro.
There are numerous ways that just the visible cells can be selected without a macro, but those won't be gone into here. The assumption is that you want to select the visible cells as part of a larger macro you may be creating. For instance, you might need to select the visible cells before doing some sort of formatting or before you process the cells in some other way.
To select just the visible cells from a range of selected cells, you can use the following line of code:
Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
If you need to work on some other initial range of cells before selecting the visible subset of those cells, all you need to do is change the "Selection" portion of the line. For instance, you could select the visible cells in the used range of the worksheet by using this line:
ActiveSheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
Similarly, you could select all the visible cells on the entire worksheet by using this line:
Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
Keep in mind that the techniques described so far select all the cells that are visible, even if they are off-screen. In other words, the techniques select any non-hidden cells in the worksheet. If you truly want to select only those non-hidden cells that are visible on the screen at the current time, then you can use a different technique:
Intersect(MyRange, ActiveWindow.VisibleRange).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
The code starts by selecting only those cells where a given range (in this case "MyRange") intersects with the visible range of cells in the active window. These cells are further winnowed down by using the SpecialCells collection to make sure that only non-hidden cells are used.
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2017-05-18 18:51:52
Peter Atherton
Jeff
Wrap the code with Allen's code
ActiveSheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
function lastValue(myRange) {
lastRow = myRange.length
with myrange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
for (; myRange[lastRow - 1] == "" && lastRow > 0; lastRow--)
{ /*nothing to do*/ }
return myRange[lastRow - 1];
End with
i Have not test this but giver it a go
};
2017-05-17 12:26:25
Miguel
How could I select a specific number of visible rows?
Thanks a lot.
2015-08-20 13:52:58
jacob
what is the syntax for using this? How do i define what range of cells to select?
2015-02-24 18:09:48
Jeff
So I have a script that I found:
function lastValue(myRange) {
lastRow = myRange.length
for (; myRange[lastRow - 1] == "" && lastRow > 0; lastRow--)
{ /*nothing to do*/ }
return myRange[lastRow - 1];
}; which will grab the last cell in a column, but what do I add to it so that it will only show only filtered data?
2015-01-26 21:25:06
Isaac
I have a workbook with 4 tabs: each tab references each week of the month. So I have FebWeek1, FebWeek2, FebWeek3 & FebWeek4. FebWeek1 is a worksheet with 5 spreadsheets (1 for each day of week1), and each day I work on each spreadsheet: Monday is the first spreadsheet, Tuesday is the 2nd spreadsheet etc... What I want to do is on Monday I want Monday's spreadsheet visible on the entire screen, and Tuesday I want only Tuesday visible on the screen, etc... Any help will be immensely appreciated. Thanks
2014-01-08 09:16:39
Chuck Trese
Hello David,
It is not really appropriate to ask such a question in the comment section of a tip about selecting visible cells.
May I suggest entering "excel vba pivot table hide levels" or something similar in google. This will bring up several really good forums for Excel programming. Understand, however, that these sites have etiquette rules to keep them sane and useful for everyone. Please read each forum's rules before engaging.
Good luck in your search for knowledge!
2014-01-07 06:13:32
David
I have a Pivot Table using 4 fields as breaks/levels for a budget report. The income section actually has 2 levels, while the Expense section has 4 levels.
How can I avoid repeating or turn off the display of the 'extra' levels in the Income section. I only want to display a level if the level above has a different name.
If level 1 and level 2 is INCOME do not display row/subtotals.
If level 1 is EXPENSE and level 2 is FIXED, display the row and subtotals.
Thanks.
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
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