Sorts on variable ranges

[bman342]

I have data being imported to a spreadsheet that needs to be sorted.
The range of data elements is inconsistent.
I want to automate the sort function.
I recorded a macro that highlights the first data element, which will always
be consistent (say at: A4), and then moves down to a cell that defines a
range that I know will always be larger than the amount of data elements
being imported (say A300). But if I do an alphabetical sort, the blank cells
will be placed first.

If there a way to automatically highlight just the range of data elements,
and then do the sort?

Thanks.

[JonR]

This will work with varying data table lengths as long as there are no blank
cells in between data elements (i.e. you can't have data down to A255 if
there is a blank in A75 -- it will go to A74 and stop)


Sub sort()

Dim inRow

Cells(4, 1).Select

inRow = Selection.End(xlDown).Row

Range(Cells(4, 1), Cells(inRow, 1)).SortSpecial

End Sub

HTH
JonR

"bman342" wrote:

> I have data being imported to a spreadsheet that needs to be sorted.
> The range of data elements is inconsistent.
> I want to automate the sort function.
> I recorded a macro that highlights the first data element, which will always
> be consistent (say at: A4), and then moves down to a cell that defines a
> range that I know will always be larger than the amount of data elements
> being imported (say A300). But if I do an alphabetical sort, the blank cells
> will be placed first.
>
> If there a way to automatically highlight just the range of data elements,
> and then do the sort?
>
> Thanks.