Loop through cell in reverse order

[marcus.brown]

Hi,

I'm creating a function which does some calculation. The parameter for this function is a range. I need to loop through the range specified by the user in reverse order when doing my calculations. The calculations are relatively straightforward, it is summing up some figures, but stops once it has reached upto a certain value, but it needs to some these figures up in the reverse order.

Can someone help me with how to look through a range in reverse order?

Thanks!

 

[Gary McMaster]

The first thing you need to know is if your definition of reverse order is the same as Excel's. It stores the cells in the range from left to right, top to bottom.

Below is sample that will read through the range in reverse order as stored by Excel.

(select a small grid of cells)

Gary

Public Sub Test()

Dim oRange As Range
Dim lCount As Long

Set oRange = Selection

For lCount = oRange.Cells.Count To 1 Step -1
    oRange.Cells(lCount).Interior.ColorIndex = 3
    MsgBox "Pause"
Next lCount

End Sub

 

[marcus.brown]

Hi,

Thanks! I'm now having a problem whereby i don't know how to get the value of the cell that it is currently at.

Normally, in a for next loop (like below), i would do cell.value to obtain this value. When doing this now, it doesn't work.

For each cell in oRange

cell_Value = cell.value

Next

Thanks

 

[mancubus]

try

For each cell in oRange
     MsgBox cell.value
Next

try

For each cell in oRange
     cell_value = cell.value
     MsgBox cell_value
Next

 

[Gary McMaster]

It's very similar:

cell_value = oRange.Cells(lCount).Value

Gary

 

[Weaver]

Hi,

Thanks! I'm now having a problem whereby i don't know how to get the value of the cell that it is currently at.

Normally, in a for next loop (like below), i would do cell.value to obtain this value. When doing this now, it doesn't work.

For each cell in oRange

cell_Value = cell.value

Next

Thanks

Probably best not to use reserved words for variable names - it just confuses the issue.

dim thisCell as range
For each thisCell in oRange
 
cell_Value = thisCell.value
 
Next

 

[marcus.brown]

This works a treat. Many thank you all!