I have the following file in Excel:
NAME VALUE
ABC 10
ABC 11
ABC 12
DEF 20
DEF 21
DEF 22
GHI 30
GHI 31
GHI 32
I'd like to split it into files by the 'Name' column (3 files for the example above) as following:
File: ABC.xsl
NAME VALUE
ABC 10
ABC 11
ABC 12
File: DEF.xsl
NAME VALUE
DEF 20
DEF 21
DEF 22
File: GHI.xsl
NAME VALUE
GHI 30
GHI 31
GHI 32
So far, tried the following macro:
https://sites.google.com/a/madrocketscientist.com/jerrybeaucaires-excelassistant/parse-functions/sheet1-to-wbs
Got runtime errors on this line ws.Range(vTitles).AutoFilter
And after commenting it out the error moved to ws.Range(vTitles).AutoFilter Field:=vCol, Criteria1:=MyArr(Itm)
when vCol
's value became empty.
What am I doing wrong please? (as VBA isn't my strongest point atm). Any advise regarding the snippet above or an alternative code that works would be a viable solution for me.
I think this ought to get you where you're going. The code below saves each group as a workbook (.xls format) in the same directory as the workbook that houses the VBA (i.e. ThisWorkbook
):
Option Explicit
Sub SplitIntoSeperateFiles()
Dim OutBook As Workbook
Dim DataSheet As Worksheet, OutSheet As Worksheet
Dim FilterRange As Range
Dim UniqueNames As New Collection
Dim LastRow As Long, LastCol As Long, _
NameCol As Long, Index As Long
Dim OutName As String
'set references and variables up-front for ease-of-use
Set DataSheet = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
NameCol = 1
LastRow = DataSheet.Cells.Find("*", SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Row
LastCol = DataSheet.Cells.Find("*", SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Column
Set FilterRange = Range(DataSheet.Cells(1, NameCol), DataSheet.Cells(LastRow, LastCol))
'loop through the name column and store unique names in a collection
For Index = 2 To LastRow
On Error Resume Next
UniqueNames.Add Item:=DataSheet.Cells(Index, NameCol), Key:=DataSheet.Cells(Index, NameCol)
On Error GoTo 0
Next Index
'iterate through the unique names collection, writing
'to new workbooks and saving as the group name .xls
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
For Index = 1 To UniqueNames.Count
Set OutBook = Workbooks.Add
Set OutSheet = OutBook.Sheets(1)
With FilterRange
.AutoFilter Field:=NameCol, Criteria1:=UniqueNames(Index)
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy OutSheet.Range("A1")
End With
OutName = ThisWorkbook.FullName
OutName = Left(OutName, InStrRev(OutName, "\"))
OutName = OutName & UniqueNames(Index)
OutBook.SaveAs Filename:=OutName, FileFormat:=xlExcel8
OutBook.Close SaveChanges:=False
Call ClearAllFilters(DataSheet)
Next Index
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
'safely clear all the filters on data sheet
Sub ClearAllFilters(TargetSheet As Worksheet)
With TargetSheet
TargetSheet.AutoFilterMode = False
If .FilterMode Then
.ShowAllData
End If
End With
End Sub
Just for the record, this code worked for me on Windows (but for some reason not on Mac):
Option Explicit
Sub SplitIntoSeparateFiles()
Dim OutBook, MyWorkbook As Workbook
Dim DataSheet As Worksheet, OutSheet As Worksheet
Dim FilterRange As Range
Dim UniqueNames As New Collection
Dim LastRow As Long, LastCol As Long, _
NameCol As Long, Index As Long
Dim OutName As String
'set references and variables up-front for ease-of-use
'the current workbook is the one with the primary data, more workbooks will be created later
Set MyWorkbook = ActiveWorkbook
Set DataSheet = ActiveSheet 'was ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1"), now works for every sheet
NameCol = 1
LastRow = DataSheet.Cells.Find("*", SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Row
'LastRow = DataSheet.Cells.Find("*", [A1], , , xlByRows, xlPrevious).Row
LastCol = DataSheet.Cells.Find("*", SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Column
Set FilterRange = Range(DataSheet.Cells(1, NameCol), DataSheet.Cells(LastRow, LastCol))
'loop through the name column and store unique names in a collection
For Index = 2 To LastRow
On Error Resume Next
UniqueNames.Add Item:=DataSheet.Cells(Index, NameCol), Key:=DataSheet.Cells(Index, NameCol)
On Error GoTo 0
Next Index
'iterate through the unique names collection, writing
'to new workbooks and saving as the group name .xls
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
For Index = 1 To UniqueNames.Count
Set OutBook = Workbooks.Add
Set OutSheet = OutBook.Sheets(1)
With FilterRange
.AutoFilter Field:=NameCol, Criteria1:=UniqueNames(Index)
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy OutSheet.Range("A1")
End With
OutName = MyWorkbook.Path + "\" 'was OutName = Left(OutName, InStrRev(OutName, "\"))
'the question here would be to modify the separator for every platform
OutName = OutName & UniqueNames(Index)
OutBook.SaveAs Filename:=OutName, FileFormat:=xlExcel8
OutBook.Close SaveChanges:=False
Call ClearAllFilters(DataSheet)
Next Index
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub
'safely clear all the filters on data sheet
Sub ClearAllFilters(TargetSheet As Worksheet)
With TargetSheet
TargetSheet.AutoFilterMode = False
If .FilterMode Then
.ShowAllData
End If
End With
End Sub