How to Check If Cell Is Empty Using Excel VBA: 5 Easy Methods

Method 1 – Using the VBA IsEmpty Function to Check If Cell Is Empty 

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 CheckEmptyCell()
    'declare object variable to hold reference to cell you work with
    Dim myCell As Range
    'identify cell you work with
    Set myCell = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Empty Cell").Range("B9")
    'check if cell is empty. Depending on result, display message box indicating whether cell is empty (True) or not empty (False)
    If IsEmpty(myCell) Then
        MsgBox myCell.Address & " is empty"
    Else
        MsgBox myCell.Address & " is not empty"
    End If
End Sub

Your code is now ready to run.

• Press F5 on your keyboard, or from the menu bar, select Run -> Run Sub/UserForm. Click on the small Play icon in the sub-menu bar to run the macro.

• It will give you a message indicating whether your selected cell is empty (Cell B9 is empty so it showed us $B$9 is empty).

Method 2 – Highlighting Empty Cells with Excel VBA Macro

Steps:

• Open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, copy the following code and paste it.

Sub CheckMultipleEmptyCells()
Dim i As Long
Dim c As Long
Dim myRange As Range
Dim myCell As Range
Set myRange = Range("B5:B15")
For Each myCell In myRange
    c = c + 1
    If IsEmpty(myCell) Then
        myCell.Interior.Color = RGB(255, 87, 87) 'use this line if you want
        'to highlight empty cells, otherwise skip it
        i = i + 1
    End If
Next myCell
MsgBox "There are total " & i & " empty cells out of " & c & "cells."
End Sub

Your code is now ready to run.

• Run the macro.
• It will show you how many empty cells are in your dataset and highlight the empty cells for you.

Method 3 – Checking If Any Cell in a Range Is Empty with Excel VBA

Steps:

• Open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, copy the following code and paste it.

Sub CheckEmptyCellInRange()
    'declare object variable to hold reference to cell range you work with
    Dim myCellRange As Range
    'identify cell range you work with
    Set myCellRange = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Cell in Range").Range("B5:B15")
    'check if number of non-empty cells in range is less than total number of cells in range. Depending on result, display message box indicating whether cell range contains any empty cell (True) or not (False)
    If WorksheetFunction.CountA(myCellRange) < myCellRange.Count Then
        MsgBox myCellRange.Address & " contains at least 1 empty cell"
    Else
        MsgBox myCellRange.Address & " doesn't contain empty cells"
    End If
End Sub

Your code is now ready to run.

• Run the code.
• It will show you whether the range contains any empty cells (there was an empty (Cell B9) in the range B5:B15, so it showed us the message shown in the picture).

Method 4 – Applying Excel VBA Macro to Inspect If Active Cell Is Empty 

Steps:

• Open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, copy the following code and paste it.

Sub CheckIfActiveCellEmpty()
 'check if active cell is empty. Depending on result, display message box indicating whether active cell is empty (True) or not empty (False)
    If IsEmpty(ActiveCell) Then
        MsgBox "The active cell is empty"
    Else
        MsgBox "The active cell is not empty"
    End If
End Sub

Your code is now ready to run.

• Run the macro.
• Your active cell is empty or not (in our case, the active cell has the value Lemon so it shows the message of The active cell is not empty).

Method 5 – Checking If All Cells in a Range Are Empty with VBA 

Steps:

• Open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, copy the following code and paste it.

Sub EmptyCellRange()
Dim cell As Range
Dim bIsEmpty As Boolean
bIsEmpty = False
For Each cell In Range("B5:B15")
    If IsEmpty(cell) = True Then
        bIsEmpty = True
        Exit For
    End If
Next cell
If bIsEmpty = True Then
    MsgBox "All cells are empty in your range!"
Else
    MsgBox "Cells have values!"
End If
End Sub

Your code is now ready to run.

• Run the macro.
• This will give you the message according to the value of your cells in the range (in our case, no value was inserted inside the range B5:B15, so we got the message shown above in the message box).

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