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Relative Selection using Excel VBA Macros Part six of a six-part series of blogs
This blog shows the various techniques within Excel Visual Basic for moving around and selecting cells relative to the active cell or selection. The blog includes a discussion of the Offset, End, Resize, Range, EntireRow, EntireColumn and CurrentRegion methods. Selecting Cells with Excel VBA Macros - Relative Moving Around a Spreadsheet in VBA - Offset Selecting to the End of a Block Selecting a Block of Cells using Range Resizing Blocks of Cells in Excel VBA macros Selecting Entire Columns or Rows in Excel VBA macros (this blog) This blog is part of our Excel macros online tutorial series. Wise Owl also run VBA macros courses for beginners and advanced users.

Relative Selection using Excel VBA Macros

Part six of a six-part series of blogs

This blog shows the various techniques within Excel Visual Basic for moving around and selecting cells relative to the active cell or selection. The blog includes a discussion of the Offset, End, Resize, Range, EntireRow, EntireColumn and CurrentRegion methods.

Selecting Cells with Excel VBA Macros - Relative
Moving Around a Spreadsheet in VBA - Offset
Selecting to the End of a Block
Selecting a Block of Cells using Range
Resizing Blocks of Cells in Excel VBA macros
Selecting Entire Columns or Rows in Excel VBA macros (this blog)

This blog is part of our Excel macros online tutorial series. Wise Owl also run VBA macros courses for beginners and advanced users.

Posted by Andy Brown on 16 August 2011

Selecting Entire Columns or Rows

The EntireColumn and EntireRow properties allow you to turn a block of cells into the columns or rows containing them.

The macros in this blog entry mimic the short-cut keys SHIFT + SPACE BAR (to select rows) and CTRL + SPACE BAR (to select columns).

As an example, suppose that you wanted to use a macro to automatically resize columns B and C below to accommodate the widest text in them:


We want to go from this ...	... to this

The command to do this could be as follows:

Sub ChangeColumnWidths()

'resize columns corresponding to current cells

Selection.EntireColumn.AutoFit

End Sub

You could use a similar method to resize the rows corresponding to the current selection.

Conclusion

If you can think of any other relative selection or absolute selection techniques I've missed out, let me know. Otherwise, happy coding!

Parts of this blog
Selecting Cells with Excel VBA Macros - Relative Moving Around a Spreadsheet in VBA - Offset Selecting to the End of a Block Selecting a Block of Cells using Range Resizing Blocks of Cells in Excel VBA macros Selecting Entire Columns or Rows in Excel VBA macros (this blog)

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