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    Question Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Consider the following:

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    It is a known fact that Excel 2007 has up to 16384 rows per sheet and that one does not want to format cells that are completely unused. Is there a way, using VBA code, to limit Excel to only use, say, 20 columns?

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    Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Maybe:

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    Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Thanks for your suggestion, John.

    However, I'm looking for something I don't need to re-write for all the ranges. Furthermore, not all ranges are the same size or start on the same column. Elsewhere in my code I created a function that grabs rowscolumns 3 to 20 or so and then handles them. I cannot use this particular solution to the challenge (problem sounds so negative! :P ) I have now.

    Therefore, I would like to find something that limits the entire sheet to 20 columns, or so.
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    Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Can you provide a sheet with some samples of your ranges? Are they named ranges?

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    Question Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Some of the ranges are named, yes. Some however are offsets of ranges, for example:

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    When this is the case it's easiest to format the whole line as strikethrough:

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    In some instances I use the merged area:

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    I know in this example you don't need to add mergearea, because it looks at the range itself already. However, when used in a function with differing input range styles this can be handy.

    I've attached a file to simply display what I mean.
    Limit strikethrough.xlsx

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    Question Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    This is a piece of code where I use the fact that it is a merged area or not in a particular way:

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    Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Hi ChrisPatterson,
    maybe you just need to remove the entirerow
    try to replace it
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    Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    Thanks for your suggestion, Nilem.

    Unfortunately that also won't work. The reason why I want to do this is the following:

    I have userforms with which the user can select and deselect certain values/lines. For revision handling purposes these lines are either hidden or given strikethrough. If a sub-paragraph of options is deselected I also need to handle the sub-paragraph title. The titles themselves aren't ranges (maybe I should change this) and that's why I use the offset of -1 rows.

    So to repeat what I hope to achieve... rather than handling each row individually with a number of columns, deny Excel to change anything beyond, say, column 30. Thereby acting as if there only are 30 columns and meaning the entirerow.font.strikethrough doesn't add too much unnecessary formatting and making the file larger than necessary.

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    Re: Limit entirerow columns with VBA code

    No.
    There is no way to change Excel so that the .EntireRow property only returns the first 20 columns.

    Find and replace might be used to replace .EntireRow with .EntireRow.Resize(,20) throughout a VB Project.
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