How to Use Arrays Instead of Ranges in Excel VBA
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 2. 08. 2024
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How to Use Arrays Instead of Ranges in Excel VBA
Most people don't realise that Arrays are exponentially faster than Ranges in Excel VBA.
In this video I cover in detail how to replace ranges with arrays and make your code run faster.
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Dear Kelly Thank you and I want to learn more about Excel VBA
This is exactly what I am looking for. I work in telecom industry. It took me hours to process raw data.. now .. down to less than 20 mins with a humble system. Thank you .. where have you been 10 years ago ? I can't thank you enough .
Thank you Paul for all your content!!!
Dictionaries, arrays, collections and classes are the best.
Amazing tutoring as always! Keep these videos coming!! They're making a world of a difference to my (currently limited) VBA skills.
I had a thought, would you consider doing a video on how to use VBA generically? Like copy+paste files across different folders, or using VBA to send a standard email message? Not pushing for this but thought it could be interesting. Thanks!!
I am self-taught and I didn't fully grasp this content the first couple of times I looked at it. I decided I needed to better understand it and it now makes sense.
Thanks a lot! A very clear explanation that addressed exactly what I was looking for. You're a great teacher!
Great job Paul. Love using arrays now. So much more efficient.
The information you give us is so clean, easy-to-understand and implement⊠I just love your channel, Im hoping to buy the handbook soon
Thanks Gonza
Another really 1st class video, really simple and robust code that covers so many practical situations
Absolutely a clear and concise explanation of using arrays. Well done! You gained another subscriber.
Incredible how efficient you codes are, yet explain it so simple. Genius!
Where have you been all my life? This is awesome!
Absolutely fabulous instruction. Seeing the array filled with one line of code and then watching it crunch 2500 records in a blink, was the most fun I've had in a while... sad, but still fun! Thank you Paul.
Glad you liked it Michael.
Clear and concise, I love it!!!
Magnificent.... I have very complex range operations which take my program 281 seconds to perform. With this method I reduced the time to under 5%.... Best ever YT content I've encountered. Keep doing, don't stop. Ever! It has the potential to be great...
I have done some of this before, but not the resize aspect. Great tips, thanks Paul.
as always all your videos are amaizing and greats!
Amazing!! I watched tons of vba videos (I'm newbie) and by far this video gives a incredible edge because of its clear and concise information. Excellent!! Great work, please keep it up!!
I like the format of your videos and the way you explain things. Even if I know some of them, I still watch just because you're one of the very few on youtube that is actually enjoyable to listen to.
Thanks
Excellent video.I can see the value of arrays, as opposed to ranges, and am in the process of changing one of my user forms.However, what the video does not cover and I am interested in is the following:Placing the data from the user form back into the table/spreadsheet.
Great VBA teacher, I've tried various different tutorials and keep coming back here!
Thanks for your support my videos Andrew
From Algeria, thank you Paul for this vidéo.
Thanks Man! you and Leila are the best in excel tips!
Wow...i now really appreciate arrays. Very efficient compared to ranges. Thanks Paul
Thanks for uploading this Paul.
Has to be the best vba tutorial I've seen on CZcams. Lots of garbage stuff out there. I'm a self taught VBA user, picked up a few very helpful codes and ideas watching this. Thank you
Glad you liked it.
From someone putzing around with VBA for a few years, finding R Studio was a godsend. Perhaps there are special instances where you might have to use Excel, but I'd advise anyone who thinks they should spend time learning to code VBA to give R a try.
You sir, are next level. AMAZING!!!
Amazing explanation! Congrats!
Absolutely loved this tutorial! Thank you sir!
Great video !! Thanks for sharing with us !
Paul, Thank you for great instruction. Is it possible if I do samething with a recordset pulled out of query?
Thank you so much! This is great.
Thank you so much. Great video. I am learning a lot. Very useful tips.
Thank you Paul a brilliant video again,
Thank you Paul! I was wondering if it is possible to get other cell attributes (like cell background color) and not only cell value into an array ( without iterating through the entire range)? I have a very large range which I need to get the background colors of each cell, and it takea very long to run...
Best Video on the Interweb , Internet & Galaxy !! Star Paul !! Your an Amazing Star !!
This video got me up a high wall...by making my code cut thru a dead end(error) and in a fast way...Genius!
Learning a lot. Thanks!!
Loving your videos. A lot of my data is in word documents and I want to use VBA to move it to excel. Is there a similar way to copy a word table into an array without looping through all cells or using a copy/paste command?
A million thank you, could you please suggest if we substarct same value what you have mention but I want to add column in the end and calculation value mention . Can we do that?
Thanks a lot, this is awesome.
I stumbled upon something quite interesting when playing around with this. If you try to set an array, it will return the properties of each cell in a range instead of the value of the cells in the range. Very useful to get a number of properties information
If you use Set with a variant to a range it will return the range rather than the array.
Great work Sir, you real world examples are so fascinating. I have a question to in the same situation.
Hello. Wonderful lecture! Thanks.
My question: is there a way by which I store my database table in an array when my workbook opens AND use/call the array at different times wherever required??
Awesome paul.... U r the master of vba... Great to have u as a teacher
Glad you like it.
Thank you so much for the very useful tips using arrays in vba!! :)
Amazing teacher, each video I watch I learn a new trick. Thanks a lot
Thanks for your comment George
Good stuff.... taking baby steps with my VBA project but every step is in the right direction with these videos!!... (oh and of course I have liked this video!)..
Always loved watching your videos.
Just a quick question.
How can I adjust this to lets say I want Columns A, C to E.
Great video ! Thanks !!!
hi thanks for your videos... is it possible to redim preserve arr(1 to x,1) when arr is a variant ? thanks
Awesome content. Keep sharing useful tips and tricks.
It is much helpful for developers life. :) :)
This is a fascinating topic. I think I can adapt this to copying non-contiguous ranges from one workbook to another, but I'm not quite sure.
You can @ Eduardo Chavarria
You helped so much, thank you!
Great video as usual. Quick one. I've been coding VBA for approx 5 years and consider myself a moderate to advanced user. One thing I encounter when setting ranges and pasting arrays back it pastes values and I loose formulas. Is there a method of inputting formulas into the array when it is pasting back out?
Great tips, thanks!
BEST VBA ADVICE EVER!!!! Wow, you are awesome :-)
Glad you think so!
Thank you very much. I have a question: what is the best way to delete a row of data from array without changing the range
Paul, that's really excellent. I have used arrays like this before but your code is so short. I didn't know you could write the data by saying "= arr". I will use that a lot from now on.
In your demonstration, the Amount values written to column L are not the same as read from column E. Is there some data type issue here do you know?
Thanks
You're a beast. Your content is the best.
Always great stuff, very well presented
Thanks Gary
Awesome work!
Many thanks, excellent and well explained, it is crystal clear, your video helped me a lot.
Glad you liked it Adam.
Great stuff Paul, big fan From Florida USA....
Thaks!!! Have just changed the code in one of my macros to use arrays. I go through 200k lines in a table. Before, it took 3m20s, now it finishes in 12s, 16x faster!
That's great to hear.
This is a minor thing: My attempt to transfer range logic to array logic failed, because I used "for each"-loops to access the cells in the range. This is not working. So I just have to rebuild my code around two dim array logic. The speed gain is still unbelievable, and I am more than grateful for this contribution. Originally I thought that for each logic should work as in the following code e seems to be a reference to the range/cell element: for each e in myRange e.value="Changed" next e. This would result in a cell value of "Changed" throughout the whole range. Any suggestion, how to transfer that?
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Thank you. Great video.
Thankyou so much for this tutorial, really helped me a lot! and saved my time.. thanks a lot yet again!! :))
Awesome! Can we access to the cell properties and methods within the array?
Hey Paul, amazing Tutorials of yours!! Will this code also adapt to added rows within oder at the end of the original table, as it does with added rows?đđđ©đȘ
Thanks for your Awesome Video Sir. We are selecting the around 5 columns in array and copy, pasting it to different columns arr with same 5 columns. But I have different scenario. So my question is can I select 5 columns in array, copy, paste only any 3 column Eg. Column A, B, E.. Only by using array. Please help me Or Give me alternate idea
Thank you for the video :) It was helpful for me.
Glad it helped!
Can you have a UDF in an Add-in and extract information from a named range within the same Add-in from one of the internal worksheets? Or is the vba module the only part of the Add-in that can be used/accessed?
thanks paul - one question - how would you use array if you want to grab ranges that are not congruent (i.e. range(a:a), range(c:c), etc.) in one go? it seems that array = range doesn't like this. i've tried to use union to do that but no luck.
Thank you Paul for sharing great stuff about VBA. I am avid reader of your website content excelmastery. can you please write a or share stuff about excel vba with access connectvity
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Thanks a lot!!!))
Awesome!
this is on fire guys...the arrays functions can makes us our projects much easier and fastest....i am also trying to learning this arrays functions codings,....can someone pls explain me why the sir has used i,1 and i,5 in 6:43 minutes
i want to use count of columns so what would be just basic formula for counting columns in arrays.
A query, in an array (not in excel cells) is it possible to include background color? or put background color to certain elements of that array?
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amazing video, thanks, you are my best vba mastery legend.
Wow, thanks
Thanks, very informative. I have a question though: How do I manage to format my cells to achieve a good layout? My current Excel sheet is rather slow as I copy a row and insert it, but with this (slow) technique I don't have to care about number/text/date/currency formats or cell formats (yellow background, bold numbers) etc. as Excel takes care of that for me. Should I work with arrays and after my "tables" are filled with data, another macro formats the cells according to my wishes? Or is there another approach?
I "tweaked" my Excel spreadsheet and was able to speed up the operations by a factor of 17 (of course, I did not use 'select' and similar bad techniques from the start). I did this by using arrays and, instead of adding one row per operation, added all the needed rows at once and inserted the array contents into those empty with one go. The format of the cells (styles, number formats, borders...) is fixed at the end for the entire "table". Thanks :)
This is really really great and has reduce the processing speed of my code dramatically. The only issue that I have encountered is writing the data back to the same location (I am pulling the data from an Excel table) that is filtered. I see very strange results where the first row of the array is inserted into the last line that is displayed. Any suggestions on how to paste back to a range / table that is filtered? I could remove the filter and then re-apply it, but if that data that is changed in the array, then the same filter would not be applied.
very useful
Thanks for the video, Paul! I had a question! I'm looking to copy all the info from a sheet and paste it to another sheet. Based off the indent value of a second column, I will offset it on a row in the new sheet(higher indent = higher offset, indentlevel 1 goes to A:D on row 1, indentlevel 2 goes E:H on row 2, ect) then continue through the entire sheet. I'm seeing if I can apply this to that but the problem is my first row has an embedded link.. is there a way to add that into the array and keep the link as well when it gets pasted?
thank you very much!
Sir, Thanks for uploading such nice videos on very basic yet foundation to onward VBA coding. Sir, unfortunately when I run codes, error message pop out. The error message contain a "Run-time error 13 Type Mismatch". Please advice me on correct the error. Lots of love to your continued efforts. Keep going, Sir.
Great,thanx
20 Minutes to 33 seconds!!! Thank you very much.
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you are a G.O.A.T. probably also take us through append
This guy is a frickin' genius.
Paul this is awesome. Can this be used in Class Module. if not please show us how to do it. Thanks in advance.
What if you want to remove duplicates in your new range and do a sumif from the original amount column based on either ID or country in the new amount column? I need to do exactly this from a range of about 20000 rows. I'd like to use an array bc it's so much faster, but I am not sure how to convert the range to a shorter "remove duplicates" array with the sumif.
Really awsem, never seen such effective and shorter code in my life, again thanks for creating this video, love you, really helped me a lot
You're welcome!