How to find a value in an excel column by vba code Cells Find

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I have to find a value celda in an Excel sheet  I was using this vba code to find it   Set cell   Cells Find What  celda  After  ActiveCell  LookIn         xlFormulas  LookAt  xlWhole  SearchOrder  xlByRows  SearchDirection         xlNext  MatchCase  False  SearchFormat  False    If cell Is Nothing Then      do it something  Else      do it another thing End If   The problem is when I have to find the value only in a excel column  I find it with next code       Columns  B B   Select     Selection Find What   VA22GU1   After  ActiveCell  LookIn  xlFormulas            LookAt  xlWhole  SearchOrder  xlByRows  SearchDirection  xlNext            MatchCase  False  SearchFormat  False  Activate   But I don t know how to adapt it to the first vba code  because I have to use the value nothing

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Just use  Dim Cell As Range Columns  B B   Select Set cell   Selection Find What   celda   After  ActiveCell  LookIn  xlFormulas            LookAt  xlWhole  SearchOrder  xlByRows  SearchDirection  xlNext            MatchCase  False  SearchFormat  False   If cell Is Nothing Then      do it something  Else      do it another thing End If

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I d prefer to use the  Find method directly on a range object containing the range of cells to be searched  For original poster s code it might look like   Set cell   ActiveSheet Columns  B B   Find        What  celda        After  ActiveCell       LookIn  xlFormulas        LookAt  xlWhole        SearchOrder  xlByRows        SearchDirection  xlNext        MatchCase  False        SearchFormat  False      If cell Is Nothing Then      do something Else      do something else End If   I d prefer to use more variables  and be sure to declare them  and let a lot of optional arguments use their default values   Dim rng as Range Dim cell as Range Dim search as String  Set rng   ActiveSheet Columns  B B   search    String to Find  Set cell   rng Find What  search  LookIn  xlFormulas  LookAt  xlWhole  MatchCase  False   If cell Is Nothing Then      do something Else      do something else End If   I kept LookIn    LookAt     and MatchCase   to be explicit about what is being matched  The other optional parameters control the order matches are returned in - I d only specify those if the order is important to my application

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Just for sake of completeness  you can also use the same technique above with excel tables   In the example below  I m looking of a text in any cell of a Excel Table named  tblConfig   place in the sheet named Config that normally is set to be hidden  I m accepting the defaults of the Find method   Dim list As ListObject Dim config As Worksheet Dim cell as Range   Set config   Sheets  Config   Set list   config ListObjects  tblConfig     search in any cell of the data range of excel table Set cell   list DataBodyRange Find searchTerm   If cell Is Nothing Then      when information is not found Else      when information is found End If

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Dim strFirstAddress As String Dim searchlast As Range Dim search As Range  Set search   ActiveSheet Range  A1 A100   Set searchlast   search Cells search Cells Count   Set rngFindValue   ActiveSheet Range  A1 A100   Find Text  searchlast  xlValues  If Not rngFindValue Is Nothing Then   strFirstAddress   rngFindValue Address   Do     Set rngFindValue   search FindNext rngFindValue    Loop Until rngFindValue Address   strFirstAddress

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