Writing a large VBA array to the worksheet in a single operation, rather than cell by cell, can result in a huge improvement of the speed of many macros. The basic technique was described here. I recently wanted to modify this technique to write a number of arrays from a loop into adjacent ranges on the same sheet, then adjust the range name to cover all the arrays, so they could be cleared in one operation. This is the code I came up with:
' Clear all old data Range("DfileRes").ClearContents ' Reset column offset and maximum number of rows counters, and number of columns per array DatOff = 0 Maxrows = 0 NumCols = 11 For i = 1 to NumOut ' Fill array "Stressa" ' ... ' Get size of output array; Numrows and reset Maxrows if necessary ' ... If Numrows > Maxrows then Maxrows = Numrows ' Write array to spreadsheet Range("DfileRes").Offset(0, DatOff).Resize(NumRows, NumCols).Value = Stressa ' Recalculate column offset value, "DatOff" DatOff = DatOff + NumCols + 1 ' 1 blank column inserted between each output array Next i ' Resize output range to cover all data Range("DfileRes").Resize(Maxrows, DatOff).Name = "DfileRes"
The line that does all the work is:
- Range(“DfileRes”).Offset(0, DatOff).Resize(NumRows, NumCols).Value = Stressa
This generates a range offset from the top left cell of the range “DFileRes” by zero rows and DatOff columns, with a size of NumRows x NumCols, and writes the contents of the array “StressA” into that range. Note that a range named “DFileRes” must be created in the spreadsheet for the macro to work.
Not just on Excel, how far away from Excel do you go? DO you go away from science as well? What about topics relating to Apple devices and such?
Christopher
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Christopher – It’s called not (just) an Excel Blog because it covers science, engineering and music as well, but there may be some stuff on javascript and Google Docs creeping in. There isn’t likely to be anything on Apple because I don’t use them, but I may do something on programming for Android tablets, if I ever have time to get into it.
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