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C3 = Jan Unpublished Estimate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E3 = Feb Unpublished Estimate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. Anonymous
    2011-06-16T16:30:41+00:00

    FYI, your shortened version of GetFilteredRangeTopRow appears to work only when the header row is in row 1.  My header row is in row 3 and GetFilteredRangeTopRow returned 3 (rather than 49, which is the first data row in my filtered range).

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-06-16T15:57:40+00:00

    Thanks for the info.  BTW, where did you find the 8192 non-contiguous areas and the 255 characters limitations?  When I look in the Excel Developer Reference, I don't see any mention of them.  I also looked on MSDN and couldn't find the limitations listed there either.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-06-16T14:25:50+00:00

    > When I copied it down to Row 10000 and AutoFilter'ed on the number 1, both functions

    > worked fine. However, when I extended the range to 21000, both functions errored out.

    > I'm guessing the 8192 non-contiguous areas problem is behind it for some reason.

    Right, that's why my code is much longer then yours.

    What I was surprised at in my last posted functions is that the Find function has a limitation associated with the non-contiguous areas limitation (I don't ever remember reading about such a limit for this function). I find it hard to believe that Microsoft's underlying code for this function needed to be dependent on the number of non-contiguous areas at all. As it turns out, the worksheet's Edit/Find function (on the menu bar) has the same limitation... it returned a "Microsoft Office Excel cannot or use the data range reference because it is too complex error". That is a new one for me... I don't think I ever saw that message (for the Find function) before.

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