how to detect whether VBA excel found something?

Question

i am using this to in a macro to find stuff in my sheet:

Selection.Find(What:=email, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt _
    :=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:= _
    False, SearchFormat:=False).Activate

how can i tell whether or not it found something?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:22

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Dim rng As Range

Set rng = Selection.Find(What:=email, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
    LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:= _
    False, SearchFormat:=False)

If Not rng Is Nothing Then 'when rng <> nothing means found something'
    rng.Activate
End IF

answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:22

manji

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Reading `If Not rng Is Nothing Then` makes my head hurt.... Your comment helped a lot! Thanks – FreeSoftwareServers Mar 08 '19 at 20:43

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:21

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Find returns a Range object that will ave value Nothing if What is not found. From the help:

With Worksheets(1).Range("a1:a500")
    Set c = .Find(2, lookin:=xlValues)
    If Not c Is Nothing Then
        firstAddress = c.Address
        Do
            c.Value = 5
            Set c = .FindNext(c)
        Loop While Not c Is Nothing And c.Address <> firstAddress
    End If
End With

answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:21

Ryan Shannon

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Explaining that the value is `NOTHING` if statement doesn't find anything really helps, I was testing if the variable was `null` with `IsNull` and that didn't work! – FreeSoftwareServers Mar 08 '19 at 20:42

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:24

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Selection.Find is like using Ctrl+F to find a value. You can then check against Activecell.Value to see if you got the desired result.

answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:24

NickSentowski

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