Empty cells not Empty!

[pianoman]

Hi Guys,
I'm sure this is (another) microsoft glitch, so I'm looking for a work-around rather than a proper solution really...

I've got a sheet that runs a whole load of calculations through a set of macros, which leaves me a with a sheet displaying a table with Vendor on the left, an assesment number across the top, and a r,y or g (Red Yellow or Green) in the table depending on what state they're in, for a particular assesment. The assesment that each vendor is at changes, and obviously the Colour is variable as well.

My problem is this... I need to find the most recent assesment, and record it's colour, but any COUNT function i try to run on the table includes all the 'blank' cells as well. This affects any attempts to do a selection.end(xlToRight) as well.
Manually, if I double click the 'blank' cell, and then 'de-select' it, it is now properly blank, and I can work with it fine. What's going on, and how do I automate freeing up all the blank cells?!

I've tried multiplying everything by 1, paste special and changing the format to text, everything is ineffectual!

Please help!

Many thanks,
Gareth.

P.S if anyone has Bill's personal Email, I'll be sure to let him know what I think of this little bug too!

[Tom Ogilvy]

From Dave Peterson:

Select the range
edit|replace
what: (leave blank)
with: $$$$$
replace all


followed by:
edit|replace
what: $$$$$
with: (leave blank)
replace all



--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"pianoman" wrote:

>
> Hi Guys,
> I'm sure this is (another) microsoft glitch, so I'm looking for a
> work-around rather than a proper solution really...
>
> I've got a sheet that runs a whole load of calculations through a set
> of macros, which leaves me a with a sheet displaying a table with Vendor
> on the left, an assesment number across the top, and a r,y or g (Red
> Yellow or Green) in the table depending on what state they're in, for a
> particular assesment. The assesment that each vendor is at changes, and
> obviously the Colour is variable as well.
>
> My problem is this... I need to find the most recent assesment, and
> record it's colour, but any COUNT function i try to run on the table
> includes all the 'blank' cells as well. This affects any attempts to
> do a selection.end(xlToRight) as well.
> Manually, if I double click the 'blank' cell, and then 'de-select'
> it, it is now properly blank, and I can work with it fine. What's
> going on, and how do I automate freeing up all the blank cells?!
>
> I've tried multiplying everything by 1, paste special and changing
> the format to text, everything is ineffectual!
>
> Please help!
>
> Many thanks,
> Gareth.
>
> P.S if anyone has Bill's personal Email, I'll be sure to let him know
> what I think of this little bug too!
>
>
> --
> pianoman
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[pianoman]

Spot on!
That will do very nicely thank you
Cheers Dave

From Dave Peterson:

Select the range
edit|replace
what: (leave blank)
with: $$$$$
replace all


followed by:
edit|replace
what: $$$$$
with: (leave blank)
replace all



--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"pianoman" wrote:

>
> Hi Guys,
> I'm sure this is (another) microsoft glitch, so I'm looking for a
> work-around rather than a proper solution really...
>
> I've got a sheet that runs a whole load of calculations through a set
> of macros, which leaves me a with a sheet displaying a table with Vendor
> on the left, an assesment number across the top, and a r,y or g (Red
> Yellow or Green) in the table depending on what state they're in, for a
> particular assesment. The assesment that each vendor is at changes, and
> obviously the Colour is variable as well.
>
> My problem is this... I need to find the most recent assesment, and
> record it's colour, but any COUNT function i try to run on the table
> includes all the 'blank' cells as well. This affects any attempts to
> do a selection.end(xlToRight) as well.
> Manually, if I double click the 'blank' cell, and then 'de-select'
> it, it is now properly blank, and I can work with it fine. What's
> going on, and how do I automate freeing up all the blank cells?!
>
> I've tried multiplying everything by 1, paste special and changing
> the format to text, everything is ineffectual!
>
> Please help!
>
> Many thanks,
> Gareth.
>
> P.S if anyone has Bill's personal Email, I'll be sure to let him know
> what I think of this little bug too!
>
>
> --
> pianoman
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> pianoman's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=33712
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