How to Select Visible Cells in Excel with VBA (5 Easy Methods)

If you are looking for special tricks to select visible cells using VBA in Excel, you’ve come to the right place. There are numerous ways to select visible cells using VBA in Excel. This article will discuss the details of these methods to select visible cells using VBA in Excel. Let’s follow the complete guide to learn all of this.

How to Select Visible Cells in Excel with VBA: 5 Easy Methods

In the following section, we will use five effective and tricky methods to select visible cells using VBA in Excel. In this tutorial, we’ll cover five different VBA codes: using the UsedRange property, the Find method, selecting cells after auto filtering, and selecting cells after manual filtering.  This section provides extensive details on these methods. You should learn and apply these to improve your thinking capability and Excel knowledge. We use the Microsoft 365 version here, but you can utilize any other version according to your preference.

1. Select Only Visible Cells

If you want to select only visible cells using the VBA code in Excel, you need to use the help of VBA. This is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). To use this feature you first need to have the Developer tab showing on your ribbon. Click here to see how you can show the Developer tab on your ribbon. You can then use this detailed Excel VBA code to select only visible cells.

📌 Steps:

⧭ Open VBA Window:

• VBA has its own separate window to work with. You have to insert the code in this window too. To open the VBA window, go to the Developer tab on your ribbon. Then select Visual Basic from the Code group.

⧭ Insert Module:

• VBA modules hold the code in the Visual Basic Editor. It has a .bcf file extension. We can create or edit one easily through the VBA editor window. To insert a module for the code, go to the Insert tab on the VBA editor. Then click on Module from the drop-down.

• As a result, a new module will be created.

⧭ Insert VBA Code:

• Now select the module if it isn’t already selected. Then write down the following code in it.

Sub select_visible_cells()
    Range("B4:C9").Select
    Range("B5").Activate
    Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
End Sub

• Next, save the code.

⧭ Run VBA Code:

• Afterward, close the Visual Basic window. After that press Alt+F8.
• When the Macro dialogue box opens, select the following macro in the Macro name. Click on Run.

⧭ Output:

• Therefore, this will select only the visible cells as shown below.

Sub select_visible_cells()

Range("B4:C9").Select
    Range("B5").Activate
    Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select

End Sub

Read More: Excel VBA: Select All Cells with Data

2. Select Visible Cells Using UsedRange Property

Here, we will demonstrate another VBA method to select visible cells in Excel. We will use the VBA UsedRange property to do the task. Let’s walk through the following detailed steps to select only visible cells using the VBA code in Excel.

📌 Steps:

⧭ Open VBA Window:

• VBA has its own separate window to work with. You have to insert the code in this window too. To open the VBA window, go to the Developer tab on your ribbon. Then select Visual Basic from the Code group.

⧭ Insert Module:

• VBA modules hold the code in the Visual Basic Editor. It has a.bcf file extension. We can create or edit one easily through the VBA editor window. To insert a module for the code, go to the Insert tab on the VBA editor. Then click on Module from the drop-down.

• As a result, a new module will be created.

⧭ Insert VBA Code:

• Now select the module if it isn’t already selected. Then write down the following code in it.

Sub Select_Range()
    Dim r1ng As Range
    Set r1ng = Sheets("Sheet1").UsedRange
    r1ng.Select
End Sub

• Next, save the code.

⧭ Run VBA Code:

• Afterward, close the Visual Basic window. After that press Alt+F8.
• When the Macro dialogue box opens, select the following macro in the Macro name. Click on Run.

⧭ Output:

• Therefore, this will select only the visible cells as shown below.

Sub Select_Range()

Dim r1ng As Range

Set r1ng = Sheets("Sheet1").UsedRange
  r1ng.Select

End Sub

3. Utilizing the VBA Find Method

In the third method, we will use the Find method to select a particular visible cell in Excel. Follow these steps to see how we can use the code and the breakdown of it.

📌 Steps:

⧭ Open VBA Window:

• VBA has its own separate window to work with. You have to insert the code in this window too. To open the VBA window, go to the Developer tab on your ribbon. Then select Visual Basic from the Code group.

⧭ Insert Module:

• VBA modules hold the code in the Visual Basic Editor. It has a .bcf file extension. We can create or edit one easily through the VBA editor window. To insert a module for the code, go to the Insert tab on the VBA editor. Then click on Module from the drop-down.

• As a result, a new module will be created.

⧭ Insert VBA Code:

• Now select the module if it isn’t already selected. Then write down the following code in it.

Sub Found_Range()
    Dim r1ng As Range
    Set r1ng = Sheets("Sheet1").UsedRange.Find("Body")
      r1ng.CurrentRegion.Select
End Sub

• Next, save the code.

⧭ Run VBA Code:

• Afterward, close the Visual Basic window. After that press Alt+F8.
• When the Macro dialogue box opens, select the following macro in the Macro name. Click on Run.

⧭ Output:

• Therefore, this will select only the visible cells as shown below.

Sub Found_Range()

Dim r1ng As Range

  Set r1ng = Sheets("Sheet1").UsedRange.Find("Body")
r1ng.CurrentRegion.Select

End Sub

4. Select Visible Cells After Auto Filter

In this fourth method, we will use a VBA code that is constructed such that the filter requirements are already embedded in the code. When you need to filter a specific column by a specific parameter every time, this is especially useful. The process will be faster if you want to repeat it over and over again since you won’t have to select parameters each time. Follow these steps to select visible cells after Autofilter using VBA.

📌 Steps:

⧭ Open VBA Window:

• VBA has its own separate window to work with. You have to insert the code in this window too. To open the VBA window, go to the Developer tab on your ribbon. Then select Visual Basic from the Code group.

⧭ Insert Module:

• VBA modules hold the code in the Visual Basic Editor. It has a.bcf file extension. We can create or edit one easily through the VBA editor window. To insert a module for the code, go to the Insert tab on the VBA editor. Then click on Module from the drop-down.

• As a result, a new module will be created.

⧭ Insert VBA Code:

• Now select the module if it isn’t already selected. Then write down the following code in it.

Sub Select_AutoFiltered_VisibleRows_NewSheet()
Dim FilterValues As String
FilterValues = "Texas"
ActiveSheet.Range("B4:E14").AutoFilter
ActiveSheet.Range("B4:E14").AutoFilter field:=2, Criteria1:=FilterValues
ActiveSheet.Range("B4:E14").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select
End Sub

• Next, save the code.

⧭ Run VBA Code:

• Afterward, close the Visual Basic window. After that press Alt+F8.
• When the Macro dialogue box opens, select the following macro in the Macro name. Click on Run.

⧭ Output:

• This is how the spreadsheet will look now. VBA code automatically auto-filters and selects the visible cells in the Excel spreadsheet.

Sub Select_AutoFiltered_VisibleRows_NewSheet()

Dim FilterValues As String

FilterValues = "Texas"

ActiveSheet.Range("B4:E14").AutoFilter
ActiveSheet.Range("B4:E14").AutoFilter field:=2, Criteria1:=FilterValues

ActiveSheet.Range("B4:E14").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Select

End Sub

Read More: How to Deselect in Excel VBA

5. Select Visible Cells After Filtering Manually

In this fifth method, we will illustrate another VBA code to select visible cells after manually filtering. First of all, we have to create a table and then we will filter the table, then finally we will use code to select visible cells. To do the task you have to follow the following process.

📌 Steps:

• Firstly, select the range of cells as shown below.
• Then, go to the Insert tab and select Table.

• Therefore, the Create Table window will appear. Click on OK.

• Therefore, a table will be created as shown below.

• Next, we are going to filter the table. To do this, click on the dropdown menu, and select your desired option as shown below. Then, click OK.

• Consequently, the dataset will look like this.

• Now, we are going to use the VBA code to select the visible cells.

📌 Steps:

⧭ Open VBA Window:

• VBA has its own separate window to work with. You have to insert the code in this window too. To open the VBA window, go to the Developer tab on your ribbon. Then select Visual Basic from the Code group.

⧭ Insert Module:

• VBA modules hold the code in the Visual Basic Editor. It has a.bcf file extension. We can create or edit one easily through the VBA editor window. To insert a module for the code, go to the Insert tab on the VBA editor. Then click on Module from the drop-down.

• As a result, a new module will be created.

⧭ Insert VBA Code:

• Now select the module if it isn’t already selected. Then write down the following code in it.

Sub Manual_Selection()
   With Sheets("Filter").ListObjects("Table1")
      Intersect(.DataBodyRange.SpecialCells(xlVisible), .Parent.Range("B:E")).Select
   End With
End Sub

• Next, save the code.

⧭ Run VBA Code:

• Afterward, close the Visual Basic window. After that press Alt+F8.
• When the Macro dialogue box opens, select the following macro in the Macro name. Click on Run.

⧭ Output:

• This is how the spreadsheet will look now. The VBA code selects the visible cells in the Excel spreadsheet.

Sub Manual_Selection()

With Sheets("Filter").ListObjects("Table1")

   Intersect(.DataBodyRange.SpecialCells(xlVisible), .Parent.Range("B:E")).Select
   End With

End Sub

Read More: Excel VBA to Select First Visible Cell in Filtered Range

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Conclusion

That’s the end of today’s session. Now, I strongly believe that from now on, you may be able to select visible cells using VBA in Excel. If you have any queries or recommendations, please share them in the comments section below. Keep learning new methods and keep growing!