{"id":4248,"date":"2019-04-04T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:55:39","slug":"vba-range-rows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/vba-range-rows\/","title":{"rendered":"VBA range.rows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Rows<\/strong> property\nrepresents all the rows on the specified worksheet or range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are going to use the following example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/rows-example.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4249\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Each cell inside the range <strong>B2<\/strong> to <strong>C7<\/strong> has values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s run the following code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete all rows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Sub DeleteAllRows()\n    Range(\"B2:C7\").Rows.Delete\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>It will leave us with a blank worksheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/clean-worksheet.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4250\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That happens because we are <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/deleting-a-row-with-vba\/\">deleting all rows<\/a> in the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/select-range-using-variables\/\">selected range<\/a>. In this example, we would have the same effect if we used <strong>Range(&#8220;B2:C7&#8221;).Columns.Delete<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete the selected row<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to delete a single row, we have to use the row number. Let\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/training\/deleting-rows-and-columns\/\">delete the second row<\/a> inside the selected range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Sub DeleteAllRows()\n    Range(\"B2:C7\").Rows(2).Delete\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If we run the above code, we are going to get the following\nresult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/delete-a-single-row.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4251\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second row is removed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/select-a-range-of-columns-in-vba\/\">selected range<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete a range of rows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can specify a range inside a range. For example, let\u2019s select the range <strong>B2<g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">:C7<\/g><\/strong>, and inside this range we are going to select rows 2, 3, and 4 and delete them. We could do this using the following lines of code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Range(\"B2:C7\").Rows(2).Delete\nRange(\"B2:C7\").Rows(3).Delete\nRange(\"B2:C7\").Rows(4).Delete<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s easier and more elegant to use the following code, where you <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/delete-a-row-if-cell-contains\/\">delete these rows<\/a> using a single line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Sub DeleteSelectedRows()\n    Range(\"B2:C7\").Rows(\"2:4\").Delete\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After you run it, Excel will remove the rows with the given\nnumbers and you are going to get this result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/delete-range-of-rows.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4252\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Count rows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you run the following code, Excel will <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/rows-and-columns\/\">count all the rows<\/a> inside the entire worksheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Sub CountRowsInsideWorksheet()\n    MsgBox Rows.Count\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is 1,048,576 &#8211; the number of rows inside a\nworksheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"127\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/number-of-rows-inside-worksheet.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4253\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to quickly find the number of rows inside a\nworksheet, press <strong>Ctrl + Down Arrow<\/strong>.\nThe cursor will be instantly moved to the <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/find-last-row\/\">last row<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"246\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/last-row.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4254\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a similar way, you can get the number of rows inside a range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Sub CountRowsInsideRange()\n    MsgBox Range(\"B2:C7\").Rows.Count\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The code returns 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlight even rows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a lesson about the <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/en\/vba\/vba-range-row\">Range.Row<\/a> property I showed how you can\nhighlight even rows inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/vba\/select-range-based-on-a-variable-using-vba\/\">selected range<\/a>. This time we are going to\nachieve the same result using <strong>Range.Rows\nproperty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we know <strong>Rows<\/strong> property represents all rows inside the selected range. We have to use indexes to distinguish single rows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Sub HighlightEvenRows()\n    Set myRange = Range(\"B2:C7\")\n    For i = 1 To myRange.Rows.Count\n        If i Mod 2 = 0 Then\n            myRange.Rows(i).Interior.ThemeColor = xlThemeColorAccent6\n        End If\n    Next i\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Code explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> First, we\nassign the selected range to the <strong>myRange<\/strong>\nvariable, so we don\u2019t have to use Range(\u201cB2:C7\u201d)\nall the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> The loop will\ngo from 1 to myRange.Rows.Count, which is 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> For each\niteration, it will check whether there is a reminder\nafter division by 2 (modulo). 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