'In Excel what is the most efficient way to find and copy/paste noncontiguous data in columns?
I have some code that works okay on a small data set, however, I'm looking for the most efficient way to handle this over in 100k+ rows.
The data is in two columns. In column B, wherever "Orange" is listed, I would like to copy/paste "Orange" into column A and replace "Citrus" for that row.
Here is my current code. I think it has some unnecessary bits in it now since I was trying to find a way to copy and paste all of the found cells at once.
SearchStr = "Orange"
Set SearchRng = Range("b2:b11)
With SearchRng
Set FoundCell = .Find(SearchStr, LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart)
If Not FoundCell Is Nothing Then
FirstAdd = FoundCell.Address
Do
If Not AllFoundCells Is Nothing Then
Set AllFoundCells = Union(AllFoundCells, FoundCell)
Else
Set AllFoundCells = FoundCell
End If
FoundCell.Copy Destination:=FoundCell.Offset(0, -1)
Set FoundCell = .FindNext(FoundCell)
Loop While FoundCell.Address <> FirstAdd
End If
End With
Solution 1:[1]
Should be quicker than copy-paste:
Sub Tester()
Dim rw As Long, f As String
With ActiveSheet
rw = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "B").End(xlUp).Row
f = Replace("=IF(B2:B<rw>=""Orange"",B2:B<rw>,A2:A<rw>)", "<rw>", rw)
.Range("A2:A" & rw).value = .Evaluate(f) 'edited to remove `Application`
End With
End Sub
About 0.2sec for 100k rows
Evaluate() takes a worksheet function and evaluates it in the context of either the ActiveSheet (if you use the Application.Evaluate form) or a specific worksheet (if you use the WorkSheet.Evaluate form). It handles array formulas (no need to add the {}), and can return an array as the result (which here we just assign directly to the ColA range)
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