Cleaning up Code, better solutions?

[rod419]

Honestly I'm a relative noob when it comes to Excel. I can do the basics and maybe a few intermediate things, but thats about it.

I took over a job monitoring and identifiying unauthorized software on the machines on our network, and the concept laid out by the guy before me, is interesting and very functional... but there's a hitch:

The code in the Macro he developed to identify unauthorized looks like this:

Cells.Replace What:="Acer eDisplay Management* (*)[*]", Replacement:="" _
, LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat _
:=False, ReplaceFormat:=True

and it works fine, except that his macro only containd 30 or so items each with its own line of code, and the list that is intended to be used has about 2600 items! that many lines of code causes a "procedure too large" error.

Having no real expierence with exel macros, and no one to get help from locally, I wanted to know if there was a way to still incorperatre the 2600 items and not get the error.

Any help would be appriciated

[stanleydgromjr]

rod419,

Welcome to the Excel Forum.

You may be able to read the 2600 items into an array, and then cycle each array item into the formula.

Can you post your workbook? If so, then click on "New Post" and scroll down and see "Manage Attachments".

[JBeaucaire]

So, you have a list 2600 "phrases" that you want to search for and replace them with nothing? Effectively clear the cells that have those values?

Put those 2600 phrases/text strings into a separate sheet (sheet2) in one column (col A). Then a macro like this can go through all of them:

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