Getting the Range Address of an AutoFiltered Range

Anonymous
2011-06-10T16:16:30+00:00

I have a worksheet with the following column labels beginning in cell A3:

A3 = Year

B3 = Product ID

C3 = Jan Unpublished Estimate

D3 = Jan Published Estimate

E3 = Feb Unpublished Estimate

F3 = Feb Published Estimate

I have enabled filtering on the range A3:F200.  I then filter on Year (2011), and Product ID (203135).  This results in rows 6 through 97 being displayed, although the row numbers are not consecutive (i.e., not all the rows between 6 and 97 meet the filter criteria).

Is there a way to programmatically get the range address (specifically, the top and bottom rows) of the displayed range?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Anonymous
2011-06-19T19:08:52+00:00

First off, I have no problem if you use Andreas's code instead of mine (he obviously has had more experience with filtering than I have and his code seems to be fully debugged)... it never bothers me when someone else's code is selected for use over the code I submit. Actually, I do this coding more for myself than for the person who asked the question... that they may be able to make use of it is a plus. I have always enjoyed doing puzzles and a good amount of questions that get asked in forums (and newsgroups) provide me with a ready supply of interesting puzzles to solve (this thread being one of them... which is one of the reasons I am doggedly attempting to "get it right").

As for the incorrect result you pointed out for the top filtered row... that was more a result of my not understanding what should get returned when the filter hid all of its filtered items. Initially, I figured the first visible row after the filter would be what was wanted. I guessed wrong on that.<g> Here are my functions fixed to account for the filter hiding all of its items...

Function GetFilteredRangeTopRow() As Long

  Dim HeaderRow As Long, LastFilterRow As Long

  On Error GoTo NoFilterOnSheet

  With ActiveSheet

    HeaderRow = .AutoFilter.Range(1).Row

    LastFilterRow = .Range(Split(.AutoFilter.Range.Address, ":")(1)).Row

    GetFilteredRangeTopRow = .Range(.Rows(HeaderRow + 1), .Rows(Rows.Count)). _

                             SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)(1).Row

    If GetFilteredRangeTopRow = LastFilterRow + 1 Then GetFilteredRangeTopRow = 0

  End With

NoFilterOnSheet:

End Function

Function GetFilteredRangeBottomRow() As Long

  Dim HeaderRow As Long, LastFilterRow As Long

  On Error GoTo NoFilterOnSheet

  With ActiveSheet

    HeaderRow = .AutoFilter.Range(1).Row

    LastFilterRow = .Range(Split(.AutoFilter.Range.Offset(1).Address, ":")(1)).Row

    GetFilteredRangeBottomRow = .Range(.Rows(HeaderRow + 1), .Rows(LastFilterRow + 1)). _

                                Find(What:="*", After:=.Rows(LastFilterRow + 1).Cells(1), _

                                SearchOrder:=xlRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious, LookIn:=xlFormulas).Row

    If GetFilteredRangeBottomRow = LastFilterRow + 1 Then GetFilteredRangeBottomRow = 0

  End With

NoFilterOnSheet:

End Function

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Andreas Killer 144.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2011-06-19T08:54:05+00:00

Please study this:

Option Explicit

Sub Main()

  Dim Data(1 To 10, 1 To 2)

  Dim i As Long

  Dim Msg As String

  Dim Bug As Integer

  For i = 1 To UBound(Data)

    Data(i, 1) = i Mod 2

    Data(i, 2) = 1

  Next

  For i = 1 To 5

    Cells.Clear

    With Range("C5")

      .Value = "Nr"

      .Offset(-2, 0) = "Something"

      .Offset(1, 0).Resize(UBound(Data), UBound(Data, 2)) = Data

      .Offset(UBound(Data) + 2, 0) = "Something"

      Select Case i

        Case 1

          .CurrentRegion.AutoFilter 1, "=0"

        Case 2

          .CurrentRegion.AutoFilter 1, "=1"

        Case 3

          .CurrentRegion.AutoFilter 2, "<>1"

        Case 4

          .CurrentRegion.AutoFilter 2, "=1"

        Case 5

          'No Filter

      End Select

    End With

    MsgBox AutoFilterTopRow & " - " & AutoFilterBottomRow

  Next

End Sub

Function AutoFilterTopRow() As Long

  'Attention! Works only with small ranges!!!

  Dim WS As Worksheet, R As Range

  Set WS = ActiveSheet

  'Return 0 if not filter is set

  If Not WS.AutoFilterMode Then Exit Function

  'Get the whole range from the filter

  Set R = WS.AutoFilter.Range

  'Remove headings

  Set R = R.Offset(1, 0).Resize(R.Rows.Count - 1, R.Columns.Count)

  'Get the visible cells if any

  On Error GoTo ExitPoint

  Set R = R.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)

  'Return the row of first cell

  AutoFilterTopRow = R.Row

ExitPoint:

End Function

Function AutoFilterBottomRow() As Long

  'Attention! Works only with small ranges!!!

  Dim WS As Worksheet, R As Range, A As Range

  Set WS = ActiveSheet

  'Return 0 if not filter is set

  If Not WS.AutoFilterMode Then Exit Function

  'Get the whole range from the filter

  Set R = WS.AutoFilter.Range

  'Remove headings

  Set R = R.Offset(1, 0).Resize(R.Rows.Count - 1, R.Columns.Count)

  'Get the visible cells if any

  On Error GoTo ExitPoint

  Set R = R.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)

  'Get the last area

  Set A = R.Areas(R.Areas.Count)

  'Return the row of last cell in this area

  AutoFilterBottomRow = A(A.Count).Row

ExitPoint:

End Function

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  1. Andreas Killer 144.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2011-06-14T15:09:00+00:00

    Yeah, that's much better. :-)

    Andreas.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-06-13T15:49:30+00:00

    After you run the sub Init you'll see that the first visible data cell is A2 and the last visible data is A13. (A1 contains "Nr")

    ......<<<snip>>>......

    My English is not so great, but so he says he does not want the header of the autofilter, right?

    A1 is the header row and the header ("Nr") is always visible, regardless which filter criterias are applied. That's why I wonder that the OP thinks this is right.

    Ah, yes, the header... I see what you mean now (although I am not sure why you said "and last row" when you posted your "None of Rick Subs returns the first and last row of the filtered data." comment)... thanks for pointing that out. Here is modified code to ignore the header row in my GetVisibleRange macro...

    Sub GetVisibleRange()

      Dim Rng As Range

      Const FilteredColumn As String = "A"

      Set Rng = ActiveSheet.AutoFilter.Range

      Set Rng = Intersect(Range(Rng(1).Offset(1), Cells(Rows.Count, FilteredColumn)), Rng.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible))

      MsgBox Rng.Address(0, 0)

    End Sub

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  3. Andreas Killer 144.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2011-06-11T14:52:59+00:00

    After you run the sub Init you'll see that the first visible data cell is A2 and the last visible data is A13. (A1 contains "Nr")

    GetFullRange returns $A$4:$A$11,$A$13

    GetVisibleRange returns A1:A2,A4:A5,A7:A8,A10:A11,A13

    Sure, the second output is the visible range, but the OP request's:

    [quote]

    Using my original example, I would like the code to return a range as in Range(Cells(6,1),Cells(97,1)) or simply Range("A6:A97").

    [/quote]

    My English is not so great, but so he says he does not want the header of the autofilter, right?

    A1 is the header row and the header ("Nr") is always visible, regardless which filter criterias are applied. That's why I wonder that the OP thinks this is right.

    And for the second test... sorry, I forgot this line

      Range("A1") = 1

    at the end of the sub.

    After that A3 contains "Nr", first visible data cell within the filtered data is A4 and last is A15.

    GetFullRange returns $A$6:$A$13,$A$15

    GetVisibleRange returns A1:A4,A6:A7,A9:A10,A12:A13,A15

    And the OP has said:

    [quote]

    what I was really looking for is some code that would return the first row and last row of the displayed (i.e., filtered) range.

    [/quote]

    So I think he doesn't really know what he does, even if his code returns the correct results in this situation. Hence my further inquiry.

    Andreas.

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