Find And Replace String Using VBA Code

There are several ways to replace string using VBA code,  by looping each cell or by using VBA Replace function.

Let's say that we want to replace "Macrosoft Excel" with "Microsoft Excel" from A1 through A500.

This first example loops from A1 through A500 and replace "Macrosoft Excel" with "Microsoft Excel".

Sub Find_Replace1()
    Dim I As Integer
    Dim SFind As String
    Dim SReplace As String
    
    SFind = "Macrosoft Excel"
    SReplace = "Microsoft Excel"
    For I = 1 To 500
        If Cells(I, 1).Value = SFind Then
            Cells(I, 1).Value = SReplace
        End If
    Next I
End Sub

The following example is more efficient than previous example:

Sub Find_Replace2()
    Dim SFind As String
    Dim SReplace As String
    
    SFind = "Macrosoft Excel"
    SReplace = "Microsoft Excel"

    Range("A1:A500").Replace _
        What:=SFind, Replacement:=SReplace, _
    LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=False
End Sub

If you to make the search case sensitive you can change the MatchCase property to true. And also if you want to replace data that contain part of the searched data you can change the LookAt property to xlPart.

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Excel VBA Example: Date Calculations

To add or subtract an interval (a relative date) from a date, we could use DateAdd function. The syntax is:

DateAdd(interval, number, date)

The DateAdd function syntax has these named arguments:

Part	Description
interval	Required. String expression that is the interval of time you want to add.
number	Required. Numeric expression that is the number of intervals you want to add. It can be positive (to get dates in the future) or negative (to get dates in the past).
date	Required. Variant (Date) or literal representing date to which the interval is added.

Settings

The interval argument has these settings:

Setting	Description
yyyy	Year
q	Quarter
m	Month
y	Day of year
d	Day
w	Weekday
ww	Week
h	Hour
n	Minute
s	Second

The following example add two months to October 31, 2009:

MsgBox DateAdd("m",2,"31-Jan-09"))

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Determining whether a path exists

To check whether a path exists or not, we can use Excel VBA's GetAttr function. The following function returns True if a specified path exists, and return False otherwise:

Function isPathExist(ByVal pathname As String) As Boolean
 On Error Resume Next
 isPathExist = GetAttr(pathname) And vbDirectory = vbDirectory
End Function

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Determining Whether A File Exists Or Not

There are several ways to check whether a file exists. By using Microsoft Excel VBA statements and functions, or by using FileSystemObject (Microsoft Scripting Library). The following function returns True if a particular file exist, and return False if file does'nt exist. This function uses Dir function to check whether a file exists or not.

Function isFileExist(ByVal fname As String) As Boolean
 isFileExist = False
 If Dir(fname) <> "" Then isFileExist = True
End Function

Here's example how to use the function above:

Sub FunctionTest()
 If isFileExist("D:\SomeFile.txt") = False Then
     MsgBox "File not exists."
 Else
     MsgBox "File already exist."
 End If
End Sub

The next function do exactly as previous function, but this function uses FileSystemObject to check whether a file exist:

Function isFileExist2(ByVal fname As String) As Boolean
    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    
    isFileExist2 = fs.FileExists(fname)
End Function

FIN.

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Data Alignment

In Excel VBA macro we can control the alignment of data in a cell, both horizontally and vertically. To change alignment, we can use the following properties of the Range object:

• HorizontalAlignment. Set to xlLeft, xlCenter, xlRight, xlDistributed, or xlJustify.
• VerticalAlignment. Set to xlTop, xlCenter, xlBottom, xlDistributed, or xlJustify.

Following example sets horizontal alignment to justify:

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:D5").HorizontalAlignment = xlJustify


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Font Formatting

When we working in Excel, if we want to changes font properties we may use Font tab in the Format Cells dialog box. In Excel VBA, we control the font's appearance by the Font object. The Font object have several properties that correspond to various aspects of the font's appearance. Here are several list of font's properties:

Property	Description
Name	The name of the font.
Bold	True if the font is bold. Read/write Variant.
Italic	True if the font style is italic. Read/write Boolean.
Underline	Returns or sets the type of underline applied to the font. Can be set to xlUnderlineStyleNone, xlUnderlineStyleSingle, xlUnderlineStyleDouble, xlUnderlineStyleSingleAccounting, xlUnderlineStyleDoubleAccounting. Read/write Variant.
Size	Returns or sets the size of the font. Read/write Variant.
Subscript	True if the font is formatted as subscript. False by default. Read/write Variant.
Superscript	True if the font is formatted as superscript; False by default. Read/write Variant.
Strikethrough	True if the font is struck through with a horizontal line. Read/write Boolean.

This example sets font name of range A1:B4 to Tahoma in ActiveSheet in ActiveWorkbook:

ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:B4").Font.Name = "Tahoma"

The Color property uses an RGB value, which identifies a color in terms of its red, green,
and blue components. To set this property, use the RGB function:

RGB(r, g, b)

The next example sets font color of range B4 to Blue in ActiveSheet in ActiveWorkbook:

ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:B4").Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 255)

We can also use predefined constants to sets font color, they are vbBlack, vbRed, vbGreen, vbYellow, vbBlue, vbMagenta, vbCyan, and vbWhite.

This example do exactly as previous example:

ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:B4").Font.Color = vbBlue


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Changing Row and Column Size

Sometimes, in Microsoft Excel we need to change width of columns or height of rows in a worksheet to accomodate data they contain. In Excel Visual Basic for Application (VBA macro), to change columns width we can use ColumnWidth property. Following excel macro code sets width of column C in "Sheet1" worksheet to 24:

Sheets("Sheet1").Columns("C").ColumnWidth = 24

To change columns width to fit data in columns, we can use AutoFit method. The following example uses AutoFit method to change the size of C:F in the "Sheet1" worksheet:

Sheets("Sheet1").Columns("C:F").AutoFit

RowHeight property is used to change rows height of a range. For example:

Sheets("Sheet1").Rows(2).RowHeight = 56


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