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Macro that looks for different values in cells - having trouble with zero and blank

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    Macro that looks for different values in cells - having trouble with zero and blank

    I have a macro that looks up or down from the currently selected cell and looks for when the cell contents change, e.g. suppose you have a hundred entries of "dog" in a column and this changes at some point to "cat", the macro selects the cell at the change-over point by iterating through the cells and looking for when the cell value changes.

    However it doesn't know the difference between a blank cell and a cell with a zero in it (both equal zero according to VBA). I have a kind-of solution using WorksheetFunction approach (using Count or CountA) but it takes aaaages to run, presumably since it's using a worksheet function.

    Can anyone think of a more efficient way to check the contents of two cells? I need a quick way to compare the contents and flag up if one is blank and one contains a zero.

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    Last edited by TheRobsterUK; 09-17-2014 at 07:36 AM.

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    Re: Macro that looks for different values in cells - having trouble with zero and blank

    Blank and zeros (With a figure 0) are not same. A cell with 0 has a value while a blank does not have.

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    Re: Macro that looks for different values in cells - having trouble with zero and blank

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    Would that work for your blank cells?
    Last edited by Aaron092; 09-17-2014 at 07:32 AM. Reason: Change 'Blank' to 'Empty'

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    Re: Macro that looks for different values in cells - having trouble with zero and blank

    Found that this works:

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