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VBA for Excel Cheat Sheet by guslong

VBA for Excel (beginners level stuff)
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VBA data types

Type	Description
Variant	any data type
Integer	(2 bytes) integer
Long	(4 bytes) integer
Single	(4 bytes) floating point
Double	(8 bytes) floating point
String	non-numeric data
Object	any object reference
Date	a date
Boolean	True / False
Byte	1-255

Cell selection

select a single cell

Range("A1").Select

select a contiguous range

Range("A1:G5").Select

select a non-contiguous range

Range("A1:G5,J10:J15").Select

offset syntax (move from A1 to A2)

Range("A1").Offset(1,0).Select

select down to first empty cell

Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select

set a cell's value

Range("A1").Value = i

deleting, moving, copying (VBA)

Delete entire row

Rows("2").Delete

Delete entire column

Columns("B").Delete

Copy / paste a range with destination

Range("A1:B6").Copy Destination:=Range("A1")

Clear a range

Range(“D:D").Clear

Delete a worksheet

Worksheets("Sheet2").Delete

Execute a formula calculation in a range

Range("A1:A3").Formula = 2*2/6

Use RANGE to select single cells.

Iterate through a selection

Dim cell As Range
For Each cell In Selection
...
Next cell

Control structures VBA

Do ... Until Loop

Do [Until condition]
...
Loop

Do ... While Loop
Do [While condition]
...
Loop

For...Next Loop
For counter = start To end [Step s]
...
Next [counter]

"WITH" syntax

With Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Rows
.Columns
...
End With

The "with" construction provides a shorthand way of accessing many properties and methods of the same object.

String functions

InStr ([start], "string", "what_to_find")	Returns position of string within a string
StrConv("string", vbProper\|Upper\|LowerCase)	converts string to proper\|upper\|lower case
Left ("string", x)	Return specified
Len ("string")	Return length of string
Trim ("string")	Trims string of leading and trailing spaces
Split("string", ",")	Split string by delimiter e.g. comma
Val("string")	Return numerical part only
StrComp("strA", "strB", vbTextCompare)	Compare two strings (0=true)