XL2000: Macro to Delete Every Other Row

• Microsoft Excel 2000

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that you can use to delete every other row in a selected range on a Microsoft Excel worksheet.

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1. Create a new Microsoft Excel workbook.



2. In a new worksheet, in the range A1:A9, type the numbers 1 to 5, skipping rows, as in the following example:




      A1: 1
      A2:
      A3: 2
      A4:
      A5: 3
      A6:
      A7: 4
      A8:
      A9: 5 

3. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor.



4. On the Insert menu, click Module.



5. In the new module, type the following macro:

   
   Sub Delete_Every_Other_Row()
   
      ' Dimension variables.
      Y = False              ' Change this to True if you want to
                             ' delete rows 1, 3, 5, and so on.
      I = 1
      Set xRng = Selection
   
      ' Loop once for every row in the selection.
      For xCounter = 1 To xRng.Rows.Count
   
          ' If Y is True, then...
          If Y = True Then
   
              ' ...delete an entire row of cells.
              xRng.Cells(I).EntireRow.Delete
   
          ' Otherwise...
          Else
   
              ' ...increment I by one so we can cycle through range.
              I = I + 1
   
          End If
   
          ' If Y is True, make it False; if Y is False, make it True.
          Y = Not Y
   
      Next xCounter
   
   End Sub 




6. Switch to the worksheet that contains the data, and select the range A1:A9.



7. To run the macro, point to Macro on the Tools menu, and click Macros. Select the Delete_Every_Other_Row macro, and then click Run.

Additional query words: XL2000

Keywords : kbprg kbdta kbdtacode OffVBA KbVBA
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto