Deleting Columns Faster

nniedzielski

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  1. 2019
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  1. Windows
Hello all-

I am running a line of code to delete multiple columns of unneeded info, this is what i am running:

Code:
Range("A:B,H:H,J:AD,AG:AK,AN:AX,AZ:BJ,BL:BN").EntireColumn.Delete

Is there a way to run this code and make it go faster? I have a timer on for this line and its taking between 9 and 10 seconds to just run this part, i would like to get that down to 2-3 seconds if possible,

thank you,
 

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Have you tried turning ScreenUpdating, calculations & events off?
 
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Code:
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
 
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In that case I'm not sure there's much more you can do.
How much data do you have on the sheet?
 
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Having seen post#4, try
Code:
Application.EnableEvents = False
as well.
 
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that didn't really help, and to answer your question in # 5, its ~ 20,000 rows and columns to BN
 
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For that amount of data it takes me under 1 second
I've tested it on 100,000 rows with columns A:CO and it took about 4 seconds.

Try Ctrl + End where does that take you?
 
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this is from a document that i export to Excel, and theres some formatting, so i removed the formatting and it took less than a second, so i think i will handle it that way, and then just put formatting back in at the end,
 
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Glad you found a solution & thanks for the feedback
 
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