Assign Selection to a Variable

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oitbso

I have selected a few rows that contain text on a worksheet. I would like to assign the text in these rows to a variable so that I wind up with a text string in the variable. I can assign the range to an array and then stepthrough the array and build my text string, or I can copy the selection and assign the clipboard contents to a variable. Both of these methods work and achieve the desired result, but they seem unwieldy. There must be a simpler way to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?..Thanks, Ron
 
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GS

[email protected] explained on 2/27/2012 :
I have selected a few rows that contain text on a worksheet. I would like to
assign the text in these rows to a variable so that I wind up with a text
string in the variable. I can assign the range to an array and then step
through the array and build my text string, or I can copy the selection and
assign the clipboard contents to a variable. Both of these methods work and
achieve the desired result, but they seem unwieldy. There must be a simpler
way to do this. Can someone point me in the right direction?..Thanks, Ron
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If the text is broken into several cells on each row then there's no
'simple' solution such that the text could be directly assigned to a
string variable.

Assigning the range to a variant variable results in a 2D array that
you'll have to iterate for each element of text...

Dim vTextIn As Variant
vTextIn = <SelectedRange>

Dim i&, j& 'as long
Dim sTextOut$ 'as string
For i = LBound(vTextIn) To UBound(vTextIn) '#rows
'Join the text with a space or other delimiter as desired
For j = LBound(vTextIn, 2) To UBound(vTextIn, 2) '#cols
sTextOut = sTextOut & " " & vTextIn(i, j)
Next 'j
Next 'i
'Trim the leading space
sTextOut = Mid$(sTextOut, 2)


I don't use the clipboard object for this type of process and so I
can't offer any advice on that<g>.

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John Coleman

I have selected a few rows that contain text on a worksheet.  I would like to assign the text in these rows to a variable so that I wind up with atext string in the variable.  I can assign the range to an array and then step through the array and build my text string, or I can copy the selection and assign the clipboard contents to a variable.  Both of these methods work and achieve the desired result, but they seem unwieldy.  There must be a simpler way to do this.  Can someone point me in the right direction?..Thanks, Ron
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I don't know if this is less unwieldy, but if the range is small
enough you can use the selection itself as the array:

Function SelectToString() As String
Dim theString As String
Dim cell As Range
With Selection
For Each cell In Selection.Cells
theString = theString & IIf(theString = "", "", " ") &
cell.Text
Next cell
End With
SelectToString = theString
End Function

Sub test()
MsgBox SelectToString
End Sub


If A1 to A4 contain "This", "is", "a", "test" respectively and the
selection is A1:A4 then the function returns "This is a test". The IIf-
space insertion part could of course be deleted if you don't want
spaces between strings.

If the selection is 2-dimensional then you might not like the order in
which the loop iterates through the cells - but in that case you could
treat Selection as a 2-d array with the .Cells(i,j) property.
 
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