VBA to fill formula down till last row in column

Question

So I'm working on a project and I'm trying to get my VBA code to draw down the formula that's in cell M3 all the way down to the end of the data set. I'm using column L as my base to determine what the last cell with data in it is. My formula is a concatenate of two cells with a text comma in-between them. So in excel my formula is =G3&","&L3

I want excel to draw down this formula so in cell M4 it would be =G4&","&L4 Cell M5 would be =G5&","&L5 and so on.

My code looks like:

Range("$M$3").Formula = Range("G3") & (",") & Range("L3")

Dim Lastrow As Long

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Lastrow = Range("L" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
Range("M4").FormulaR1C1 = Range("G4") & (",") & Range("L4")
Range("M4").AutoFill Destination:=Range("M4:M" & Lastrow)
ActiveSheet.AutoFilterMode = False
Application.ScreenUpdating = True

My output is simply pulling down the text values from cell M3 all the way down to the end of the data set. I've searched around for several hours trying to look for a fix, but can't seem to find one that is trying to accomplish what I'm going for.

Answer 1

For people with a similar question and find this post (like I did); you can do this even without lastrow if your dataset is formatted as a table.

Range("tablename[columnname]").Formula = "=G3&"",""&L3"

Making it a true one liner. Hope it helps someone!

Answer 2

It's a one liner actually. No need to use .Autofill

Range("M3:M" & LastRow).Formula = "=G3&"",""&L3"

Answer 3

Wonderful answer! I needed to fill in the empty cells in a column where there were titles in cells that applied to the empty cells below until the next title cell.

I used your code above to develop the code that is below my example sheet here. I applied this code as a macro ctl/shft/D to rapidly run down the column copying the titles.

--- Example Spreadsheet ------------ Title1 is copied to rows 2 and 3; Title2 is copied to cells below it in rows 5 and 6. After the second run of the Macro the active cell is the Title3 cell.

 ' **row** **Column1**        **Column2**
 '    1     Title1         Data 1 for title 1
 '    2                    Data 2 for title 1
 '    3                    Data 3 for title 1
 '    4     Title2         Data 1 for title 2
 '    5                    Data 2 for title 2
 '    6                    Data 3 for title 2
 '    7   Title 3          Data 1 for title 3

----- CopyDown code ----------

Sub CopyDown()
Dim Lastrow As String, FirstRow As String, strtCell As Range
'
' CopyDown Macro
' Copies the current cell to any empty cells below it.   
'
' Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+D
'
    Set strtCell = ActiveCell
    FirstRow = strtCell.Address
' Lastrow is address of the *list* of empty cells
    Lastrow = Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown).Offset(-1, 0)).Address
'   MsgBox Lastrow
    Range(Lastrow).Formula = strtCell.Formula

    Range(Lastrow).End(xlDown).Select
 End Sub

Answer 4

Alternatively, you may use FillDown

Range("M3") = "=G3&"",""&L3": Range("M3:M" & LastRow).FillDown