finding empty selection

how do I find out if the selected cells have no content ie. no text,
charts, links etc?

Chimanro

if application.counta(selection) = 0 then

would be a start. Cells can't contain charts, so I don't see that as an
issue.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Chimanrao" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> how do I find out if the selected cells have no content ie. no text,
> charts, links etc?
>
> Chimanro
>

Take a look at IsEmpty or IsNull as a way to determine presence of content
in a Cell e.g.

If IsEmpty(Range("A1")) then MsgBox "A1 is Empty"

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Cheers
Nigel



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> how do I find out if the selected cells have no content ie. no text,
> charts, links etc?
>
> Chimanro
>

Just some added information:

IsNull has no play in this situation that I can see.

IsEmpty is only pertinent to a single cell (selection can be multiple cells
and the OP does say cells with an s) - So a loop might be required to use
IsEmpty

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Nigel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Take a look at IsEmpty or IsNull as a way to determine presence of
content
> in a Cell e.g.
>
> If IsEmpty(Range("A1")) then MsgBox "A1 is Empty"
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nigel
>
>
>
> "Chimanrao" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > how do I find out if the selected cells have no content ie. no text,
> > charts, links etc?
> >
> > Chimanro
> >
>
>

Agreed Tom, I was building on your example to show another method albeit for
Cell (singular without the s).

IsNull was a nonsense suggestion I agree !
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Cheers
Nigel



"Tom Ogilvy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Just some added information:
>
> IsNull has no play in this situation that I can see.
>
> IsEmpty is only pertinent to a single cell (selection can be multiple
cells
> and the OP does say cells with an s) - So a loop might be required to
use
> IsEmpty
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tom Ogilvy
>
> "Nigel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Take a look at IsEmpty or IsNull as a way to determine presence of
> content
> > in a Cell e.g.
> >
> > If IsEmpty(Range("A1")) then MsgBox "A1 is Empty"
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Nigel
> >
> >
> >
> > "Chimanrao" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > how do I find out if the selected cells have no content ie. no text,
> > > charts, links etc?
> > >
> > > Chimanro
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

You could also try the specialcells method. For example

Range("A1:A10").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Address

returns the adresses of the blanks within the range a1:a10

Cheers

Andy

"Nigel" wrote:

> Agreed Tom, I was building on your example to show another method albeit for
> Cell (singular without the s).
>
> IsNull was a nonsense suggestion I agree !
> --
> Cheers
> Nigel
>
>
>
> "Tom Ogilvy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:eqUe%[email protected]...
> > Just some added information:
> >
> > IsNull has no play in this situation that I can see.
> >
> > IsEmpty is only pertinent to a single cell (selection can be multiple
> cells
> > and the OP does say cells with an s) - So a loop might be required to
> use
> > IsEmpty
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Tom Ogilvy
> >
> > "Nigel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > Take a look at IsEmpty or IsNull as a way to determine presence of
> > content
> > > in a Cell e.g.
> > >
> > > If IsEmpty(Range("A1")) then MsgBox "A1 is Empty"
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers
> > > Nigel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Chimanrao" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > how do I find out if the selected cells have no content ie. no text,
> > > > charts, links etc?
> > > >
> > > > Chimanro
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>

You can select the background cells of a chart and press ctrl + c and
the chart also gets copied.
When I do GetSelection() in this case I get a Range object. In this
case all the cells can be empty but a chart object does exist in the
selection.

The the second scenario is when the user selects the chart object by
clicking on it. In this case when I use GetSelection i get a object but
its not of type range. which type is this object of?