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    VBA: Deleting rows that do not contain a specific character

    Saying I'm a beginner to VBA would be an overstatement. I'm a beginner in that I just now installed it for Excel 2007 for the first time. I registered an account here in order to view this thread: Deleting rows based on conditional formatting. It helped a little.

    At work, I've been tasked with figuring out how to delete all rows in a spreadsheet which are not flagged as invalid data. When imported to Excel from the .csv file, there is a column containing the flags. I want to delete all rows of data which do not contain a "C" flag in the final column. Since I will need to do this for multiple workbooks containing tens of thousands of rows each, I realized it's time to learn how to use VBA rather than doing this manually.

    I used the conditional formatting feature to highlight all cells in the flag column containing "C". I'm sure this can probably be done without conditional formatting, too.

    Baby steps.

    I have no background knowledge in any sort of coding. I've been reading a Visual Basic tutorial, but it's still sort of Greek to me.

    I've attached a test file. I need to delete all rows that do not contain the letter C in column J.

    From the tutorial, I have:

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    Where I have “B<” I need a way to specify to delete all rows not containing C, or all rows which do not have a highlighted cell in the test file.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance
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    Re: VBA: Deleting rows that do not contain a specific character

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    Re: VBA: Deleting rows that do not contain a specific character

    Quote Originally Posted by arlu1201 View Post
    Is this solved?

    If you solve a problem yourself before anyone else has responded, please take a moment to describe your solution, chances are some other member will benefit.
    Sorry, I posted this in the wrong subforum and didn't know how to delete it. The responses can be found here: Solution

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    Re: VBA: Deleting rows that do not contain a specific character

    Welcome to the Forum, unfortunately:

    This is a duplicate post and as such does not comply with Rule 5 of our forum rules. This thread will now be closed, you may continue in your other thread.

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