In this article, we will show you how to delete a row if a cell contains a value in Excel utilizing VBA macro. Sometimes we need to remove certain data from a huge dataset in Excel. When the cells in the dataset are carrying values, then we should be really careful before deleting them. Implementing VBA macro is the most effective, quickest, and safest method to run any operation in Excel. Here, we will delete cells that contain either a string or numbers as in the following gif.
How to Delete Row If Cell Contains Value Using Macro in Excel: 2 Methods
In this section, we will show you how to delete rows containing values from the Excel worksheet using VBA Macro. But before that, let us understand the syntax first.
The VBA syntax to delete rows based on cell values from the Excel worksheet,
If Then Rows(“[Row_Numbers]”).EntireRow.DeleteHere,
Row_Numbers refers to the row numbers to delete,
Delete method as an object of Rows and
EntireRow.Delete is defined as a method that will delete the entire row from the dataset.
In the next section, we will show you how to delete rows if the cells contain text value or number value in Excel by implementing the VBA macro.
1. Embed VBA Macro to Delete Row if Cell Contains String Value in Excel
Consider the following dataset of rows, where there is a list of names. From that name list, we want to delete the name “Ambrose” using the VBA macro in Excel.
The steps to delete “Ambrose” from that list by VBA are given below,
Steps:
- Press Alt + F11 on your keyboard or go to the tab Developer -> Visual Basic to open Visual Basic Editor.
- In the pop-up code window, from the menu bar, click Insert -> Module.
- Copy the following code and paste it into the code window.
Sub Delete_Row_If_Cell_Contains_String()
Dim Row As Long
Dim Wrk As Long
Row = 15
For Wrk = Row To 1 Step -1
If Cells(Wrk, 2) = "Ambrose" Then
Rows(Wrk).Delete
End If
Next
End Sub
Your code is now ready to run.
- Press F5 on your keyboard or from the menu bar select Run -> Run Sub/UserForm. You can also just click on the small Play icon in the sub-menu bar to run the macro.
You will notice that the name “Amber” has been deleted from the list.
VBA Code Explanations to Delete a Specific Row from Excel
- Sub Delete_Row_If_Cell_Contains_String() -> is for starting the program and sub procedure to write the VBA code.
- Dim Row As Long -> Declaring the variable Row as long data type to store the last row number.
- Dim Wrk As Long -> Declaring the variable Wrk as long data type to initiate in the For Loop.
- Long is a numerical data type in VBA The long data type in Excel VBA can hold the values from 0 to 2, 147, 483, 647 for positive numbers, and for negative numbers, it can hold from 0 to -2, 147, 483, 648.
- Row = 15 -> Storing the last row value to the declared Row variable (we stored 15 rows in our worksheet).
- For Wrk = Row To 1 Step -1 -> To run the For Loop.
- If Cells(Wrk, 2) = “Ambrose” Then -> Check each cell whether the value of the cell is equal to “Rock” (you can put any string according to your need).
- Rows(Wrk).Delete -> If the above If Statement is true, then delete the row.
- End If -> Ending the Statement.
- Next -> Closing the Loop.
- End Sub -> Ending the Function.
Read More: Excel VBA to Delete Row Based on Cell Value
2. Insert VBA Macro to Delete Row if Cell Contains Number Value in Excel
Consider the following dataset of rows, where there is a list consisting of text and number values. From that list, we wanted to delete all the rows containing numbers using the VBA macro in Excel.
The steps to delete all the rows containing numbers from that list by VBA are given below,
Steps:
- Press Alt + F11 on your keyboard or go to the tab Developer -> Visual Basic to open Visual Basic Editor.
- In the pop-up code window, from the menu bar, click Insert -> Module.
- Copy the following code and paste it into the code window.
Sub Delete_Row_If_Cell_Contains_Number()
Dim Row As Long
Dim Wrk As Long
Row = 15
For Wrk = Row To 5 Step -1
If IsNumeric(Cells(Wrk, 2)) Then
Rows(Wrk).Delete
End If
Next
End Sub
Your code is now ready to run.
- Press F5 on your keyboard or from the menu bar select Run -> Run Sub/UserForm. You can also just click on the small Play icon in the sub-menu bar to run the macro.
- From the pop-up Macros window, select the Macro Name, Delete_Row_If_Cell_Contains_Number -> Run.
You will notice that all the rows containing numbers have been deleted from the list.
VBA Code Explanations to Delete a Specific Row from Excel
- Sub Delete_Row_If_Cell_Contains_Number() -> is for starting the program and sub procedure to write the VBA code.
- Dim Row As Long -> Declaring the variable Row as long data type to store the last row number.
- Dim Wrk As Long -> Declaring the variable Wrk as long data type to initiate in the For Loop.
- Long is a numerical data type in VBA The long data type in Excel VBA can hold the values from 0 to 2, 147, 483, 647 for positive numbers, and for negative numbers, it can hold from 0 to -2, 147, 483, 648.]
- Row = 15 -> Storing the last row value to the declared Row variable (we stored 15 rows in our worksheet).
- For Wrk = Row To 1 Step -1 -> To run the For Loop.
- If IsNumeric(Cells(Wrk, 1)) Then -> Checking each cell whether the value of the cell is a number.
- Rows(Wrk).Delete -> If the above If Statement is true, then delete the row.
- End If -> Ending the Statement.
- Next -> Closing the Loop.
- End Sub -> Ending the Function.
- Notice that, in both macros, we were looping through the rows from bottom to up. This is the best approach to check if a cell contains a text value or number value and then delete the rows.
Key Points to Consider
The values that we deleted are in Column B in our dataset, hence, we passed 2 as the Column property inside the Cells function. You should pass the Column number according to your dataset. For instance, if the value that you want to delete is in Column A then write If Cells(Wrk, 1), if it is in Column C then write If Cells(Wrk, 3), and so on.
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Conclusion
This article showed you how to delete rows if the cells contain text values or numeric values in Excel by implementing the VBA macro. I hope this article has been very beneficial to you. Feel free to ask any questions you have regarding the topic.
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