Help Copy Rows based on Cells Values Problem

[purceld2]

Hi There

I have a problem where I need rows to a new sheet based on multiple cell values in the row. I have 5 dropdown list box where the user selects values (with the possibility that the user can select multiple values in the dropdown list box) these values are picked up by the VBA to determine which row in the data sheet to copy. The bit that is perplexing me is that in the audience dropdown list the user can select yes, which means that any row, which has a yes in the sub audience needs to be copied.

Can anybody give me a head start with the code or suggest a better solution.

Dropdown list box examples

Excel 2010

	A	B
1	Format
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6	Client (Max of 5)
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10	Brand (Max 5)
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14	Published
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18	Audience
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Data

Excel 2010t<d style="border-top: 1px solid black;border-right: 1px solid black;border-bottom: 1px solid black;border-left: 1px solid black;;">Yes</d>t<d style="border-top: 1px solid black;border-right: 1px solid black;border-bottom: 1px solid black;border-left: 1px solid black;;">No</d>t<d style="border-top: 1px solid black;border-right: 1px solid black;border-bottom: 1px solid black;border-left: 1px solid black;;">No</d>

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R
1					Audience		< style="font-weight: bold;text-align: center;border-bottom: 1px solid black;background-color: #FFFF00;;">
2	Format	Client	Brand	Published	Youth	Mum's on the Run	Tradesman	Female Commuter	Male Commuter	SME's	ABC1	C2DE	Houswives with Kids	Men	Women	15-24	35-64	65+
3	Case Study	Master Foods	Mars	2009	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
4	Face to Face Research	Diageo	Guiness	2008	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
5	Category Insight			2007	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
6	EPOS Data			2010	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
7	Pitch
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[Rijnsent]

Hey Purceld2,

if it doesn't matter for you in which column of the audience block the "yes" is located, I would probably use a helper column. An extra column with a formula to determine if there is a "Yes" in any of the Audience cells. An alternative is to make that helper column but basically make one long string of your "audience" data. So that could be "NoNoNoNoNoYesYesYes". Next, if the user fills in "Yes" to filter upon, you could filter on "*"&users choice & "*".

Hope those pointers help,

Koen

 

[purceld2]

Thanks Rijnsent,

Your advice is very much appreciated.

Just one thing that I am not clear is how could I filter on "*"&users choice & "*", could you elaburate please.

Kind Regards
Desmond

 

[Rijnsent]

Hey Desmond,

okay, say you add that column with all the columns "together". E.g. with a formula like =E3&F3&G3&H3&I3&J3 etc. That would mean "NoNoNoNoNoNo". If you filter that column with a text filter that "Contains" "Yes", it does filter all the rows where there is "Yes" in any of your columns.
So basically the *-s mean the "contains" filter: if you filter on "*Yes*" all strings that contains a Yes will be filtered.

Hope that helps,

Koen

 

[purceld2]

Hey Desmond,

okay, say you add that column with all the columns "together". E.g. with a formula like =E3&F3&G3&H3&I3&J3 etc. That would mean "NoNoNoNoNoNo". If you filter that column with a text filter that "Contains" "Yes", it does filter all the rows where there is "Yes" in any of your columns.
So basically the *-s mean the "contains" filter: if you filter on "*Yes*" all strings that contains a Yes will be filtered.

Hope that helps,

Koen

Thank you