Simplifying the Replace function in VBA
Once in a while I have an excel sheet to update, so far it has been working just fine but I would like to make it more automatic.
What I am trying to do is to replace country codes with their respective names, e.g. from UK to United Kingdom, from US to United States and so on. I wrote a simple macro that does the work but I want to simplified it and make it shorter. So far it looks like this:
Cells.Replace What:="US", Replacement:="United States", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
Cells.Replace What:="UK", Replacement:="United Kingdom", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
There will be much more lines (countries) to follow I would like to make it as short as possible, thus is there any way that I could combine those for now two lines?
P.S. I finished the code with a message box which is simply saying "Done!". Is there any way that the message box could yield the number of cells replaced?
vba replace
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
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Once in a while I have an excel sheet to update, so far it has been working just fine but I would like to make it more automatic.
What I am trying to do is to replace country codes with their respective names, e.g. from UK to United Kingdom, from US to United States and so on. I wrote a simple macro that does the work but I want to simplified it and make it shorter. So far it looks like this:
Cells.Replace What:="US", Replacement:="United States", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
Cells.Replace What:="UK", Replacement:="United Kingdom", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
There will be much more lines (countries) to follow I would like to make it as short as possible, thus is there any way that I could combine those for now two lines?
P.S. I finished the code with a message box which is simply saying "Done!". Is there any way that the message box could yield the number of cells replaced?
vba replace
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
1
Using a look up table on a VeryHidden sheet, then use FIND to return the correct shortened name cell reference, offset by 1 column to return the full name and use that in yourReplacecode.
– Darren Bartrup-Cook
Nov 12 at 11:53
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Once in a while I have an excel sheet to update, so far it has been working just fine but I would like to make it more automatic.
What I am trying to do is to replace country codes with their respective names, e.g. from UK to United Kingdom, from US to United States and so on. I wrote a simple macro that does the work but I want to simplified it and make it shorter. So far it looks like this:
Cells.Replace What:="US", Replacement:="United States", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
Cells.Replace What:="UK", Replacement:="United Kingdom", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
There will be much more lines (countries) to follow I would like to make it as short as possible, thus is there any way that I could combine those for now two lines?
P.S. I finished the code with a message box which is simply saying "Done!". Is there any way that the message box could yield the number of cells replaced?
vba replace
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
1
Once in a while I have an excel sheet to update, so far it has been working just fine but I would like to make it more automatic.
What I am trying to do is to replace country codes with their respective names, e.g. from UK to United Kingdom, from US to United States and so on. I wrote a simple macro that does the work but I want to simplified it and make it shorter. So far it looks like this:
Cells.Replace What:="US", Replacement:="United States", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
Cells.Replace What:="UK", Replacement:="United Kingdom", LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder _
:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=True, SearchFormat:=False, ReplaceFormat:=False
There will be much more lines (countries) to follow I would like to make it as short as possible, thus is there any way that I could combine those for now two lines?
P.S. I finished the code with a message box which is simply saying "Done!". Is there any way that the message box could yield the number of cells replaced?
vba replace
vba replace
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
1
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
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asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
1
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
1
asked Nov 12 at 11:48
Hari Mitsev
1
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Using a look up table on a VeryHidden sheet, then use FIND to return the correct shortened name cell reference, offset by 1 column to return the full name and use that in yourReplacecode.
– Darren Bartrup-Cook
Nov 12 at 11:53
add a comment |
Using a look up table on a VeryHidden sheet, then use FIND to return the correct shortened name cell reference, offset by 1 column to return the full name and use that in yourReplacecode.
– Darren Bartrup-Cook
Nov 12 at 11:53
Using a look up table on a VeryHidden sheet, then use FIND to return the correct shortened name cell reference, offset by 1 column to return the full name and use that in your
Replace code.– Darren Bartrup-Cook
Nov 12 at 11:53
Using a look up table on a VeryHidden sheet, then use FIND to return the correct shortened name cell reference, offset by 1 column to return the full name and use that in your
Replace code.– Darren Bartrup-Cook
Nov 12 at 11:53
add a comment |
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Using a look up table on a VeryHidden sheet, then use FIND to return the correct shortened name cell reference, offset by 1 column to return the full name and use that in your
Replacecode.– Darren Bartrup-Cook
Nov 12 at 11:53