Help with a macro

[brianfitz]

Hi guys, really hope someone can help.

I have a sheet of data, 2000+ rows and need to manipulate it in a variety of ways.

Basically I have a list of phone line information, broken down into half hourly increments over the course of a month and lists the relevant information across the rest of the colums.

What I need to do is delete every line where the time stamp is before 10am and after the last entry for 10.30am and do the same for 2 to 2.30 pm.

I've been doing this manually due to my lack of macro knowledge and I think I might be getting motion sickness so if anyone could lend a hand I'd be eternally grateful.

I realise my description may be a little vague so I have screenshots I could perhaps email people as my work firewall will not allow me to host the images anywhere.

Many thanks for any help,

Brian

 

[Weaver]

You could do this by first applying a filter to expose all entries where the data in question is between 10 and 10.30 am and delete the rows of data left visible, then do the same for you 2 - 2.30pm range.

If you're not familiar with filters there's plenty of help out there, including that built into Excel.

If you need to repeat the process often, then switch on 'record macro' which will record the steps in code required to achieve your task.

HTH

 

[brianfitz]

You could do this by first applying a filter to expose all entries where the data in question is between 10 and 10.30 am and delete the rows of data left visible, then do the same for you 2 - 2.30pm range.

If you're not familiar with filters there's plenty of help out there, including that built into Excel.

If you need to repeat the process often, then switch on 'record macro' which will record the steps in code required to achieve your task.

HTH

Thanks for your reply

Filters! Can't believe I didn't think of them. Looking at it though I've created an Autofilter over the data but when I go to select the filter for the "datetime" colum there are thousands of entries when I try to customise it as every single has a data identifier.