Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 14, 2020)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
When using a worksheet, it is not uncommon to hide rows that contain data you don't want displayed at the current time. If you have written a macro that processes the data in the worksheet, you may have wondered how to skip over and not process the rows that you have marked as hidden.
The way you accomplish this is to check the Hidden property of each row. If the property is True, then the row is hidden; if False, then row is visible.
As an example of how this works, assume that you have a worksheet that you use to track clients. Some of these clients are considered active, and others inactive. To mark a client as inactive, you hide the row containing the client. At some point, you want to number the active clients, and you want to do it using a macro. The following macro will do the trick for you:
Sub NumberClients() Dim c As Range Dim j As Integer If Selection.Columns.Count > 1 Then MsgBox "Only select the cells you want numbered" Exit Sub End If j = 0 For Each c In Selection If Not c.Rows.Hidden Then j = j + 1 c.Value = j Else c.Clear End If Next c End Sub
To use the macro, simply select the cells in which the numbering will be done. The macro checks, first of all, to make sure you have only selected cells in a single column. Then, it steps through each cell in the selected range. If the row containing the cell is not hidden, then the counter (j) is incremented and stored in the cell. If the row containing the cell is hidden, then the contents of the cell are cleared. The key to this macro is the If ... End If structure that tests the value of the Hidden attribute.
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2020-06-17 02:40:42
Hi Anshu,
I have never heard of any simple way to do that. So you would have to modify any macros you have to check for the condition to ignore that row. So you would need something like, pseudo code:
If Range(“A” & Rw & “”).Value = "TC" Then
' Do Nothing
Else
' Do what ever should normally be done
End If
Alan Elston
(DocAElstein)
2020-06-15 15:00:56
Anshu Kumar
Sir,
I've similar but different Problem.
I have a sheet in which I want to ignore the entire row based on a cell value, but still it must be visible.
Means completely ignored row but visible.
"Ignore the entire row" means if I copy, paste or apply sum , counta etc formula, then the row is skipped completely.
For example,
If I put "TC" in cell A4, the entire row 4 behaves as if it does not exist there, means it does not participate in any excel processing.
The only work of this row is to be seen.
Is it possible to do so??
Thanks!
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