Select All But 10 Autofilter Rows

**chris_wallace** · 03-01-2012, 06:21 PM

Hello everyone!

I've lurked here for a very long time to get help with my VBA coding. Today I can't seem to find the answer to my problem even though I'm sure its staring me in the face.

What I'm trying to do is filter a table of roughly 7000 rows. In each row I have an employee id, name, date and score information. Each employee has roughly 50 entries and I'm trying to write a macro that will filter by each employee and delete all but 10 of their entries. The problem that I'm running into is that when I select the autofilter range and resize my selection by 10 rows (to select everything I need to delete), it is resizing by 10 rows rather than 10 visible rows, thus leaving everything (even the 10 rows I want to save) selected.

Thank you for your help!

**rscsmith** · 03-01-2012, 06:34 PM

Hi Chris

Can you sort the data first? You could add a temporary column with the row number in (as a value, not as a formula) so you can 'un-sort' it later. You can then delete the temporary column. The problem is that macros ignore the autofilter when counting rows. Sorting gets around this - you wouldn't need to use Autofilter.

Alternatively, go through the entire list keeping a record (in a temporary table or array?) of how many times you've seen each ID. When it reaches 10, start deleting rows with that ID in.

Cheers, Rob.

**davesexcel** · 03-01-2012, 09:15 PM

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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