Find Feature to Find 3 Matching Criteria in 3 Columns in Excel
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Excel: Find Feature to Find 3 Matching Criteria in 3 Columns in Excel
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The standard excel find feature is great for locating matching cells. However, it cannot be use 'as is' to locate, say 3, matching cells on the same row within a table. What we will do, to make it different to the normal find, is allow the user to specify more than one item to locate. For example, if you have a large table of data (say A1:H1000), you may wish to find a specific row in that table where 3, or more items (if modified), occur on the one row. The number of items can be greater or smaller than 3, but for this example we will use 3.
To create this custom find you will need.
A) 1 UserForm.
B) 3 ComboBoxes. Named ComboBox1, ComboBox2 and ComboBox3. Place these vertically on the left side of UserForm with ComboBox1 at the top and ComboBox3 and the bottom. Set the Enabled Property of ComboBox2 and ComboBox3 to False.
C) 5 Labels. Named Label1 (positioned above Combobox1), Label2 (positioned above Combobox2), Label3 (positioned above Combobox3), Label4 positioned above Label1 and Label 4 anywhere for now. Change the Caption Property of Label4 to read "Select up to 3 fields". Change the Caption Property of Label5 to read "Matching Rows. Double click to go there".
D) 2 CommandButtons. CommandButton1 and CommandButton2. Change the Caption Property of CommandButton1 to "Find" and the Caption Property of CommandButton2 to "Close". Postion both of these to the top right of the UserForm.
E) 1 ListBox. Named ListBox1. Postion this below the 2 CommandButtons and place label5 above it. Make ListBox1 the same width as Label5.
That is all we need for creating the form now it's time to add the all important code. Double click the UserForm and add all the code shown below:
Option Explicit
'Module Level Variables
Dim rRange As Range
Dim strFind1 As String
Dim strFind2 As String
Dim strFind3 As String
Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
'Pass chosen value to String variable strFind1
strFind1 = ComboBox1
'Enable ComboBox2 only if value is chosen
ComboBox2.Enabled = Not strFind1 = vbNullString
End Sub
Private Sub ComboBox2_Change()
'Pass chosen value to String variable strFind1
strFind2 = ComboBox2
'Enable ComboBox3 only if value is chosen
ComboBox3.Enabled = Not strFind2 = vbNullString
End Sub
Private Sub ComboBox3_Change()
'Pass chosen value to String variable strFind1
strFind3 = ComboBox3
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
'Procedure level variables
Dim lCount As Long
Dim lOccur As Long
Dim rCell As Range
Dim rCell2 As Range
Dim rCell3 As Range
Dim bFound As Boolean
'At least one value, from ComboBox1 must be chosen
If strFind1 & strFind2 & strFind3 = vbNullString Then
MsgBox "No items to find chosen", vbCritical
Exit Sub 'Go no further
ElseIf strFind1 = vbNullString Then
MsgBox "A value from " & Label1.Caption _
& " must be chosen", vbCritical
Exit Sub 'Go no further
End If
'Clear any old entries
On Error Resume Next
ListBox1.Clear
On Error GoTo 0
'If String variable are empty pass the wildcard character
If strFind2 = vbNullString Then strFind2 = "*"
If strFind3 = vbNullString Then strFind3 = "*"
'Set range variable to first cell in table.
Set rCell = rRange.Cells(1, 1)
'Pass the number of times strFind1 occurs
lOccur = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(rRange.Columns(1), strFind1)
'Loop only as many times as strFind1 occurs
For lCount = 1 To lOccur
'Set the range variable to the found cell. This is then also _
used to Start the next Find from (After:=rCell)
Set rCell = rRange.Columns(1).Find(What:=strFind1, After:=rCell, _
LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False)
'Check each find to see if strFind2 and strFind3 occur _
on the same row.
If rCell(1, 2) Like strFind2 And rCell(1, 3) Like strFind3 Then
bFound = True 'Used to not show message box for no value found.
'Add the address of the found cell and the cell on the _
same row but 2 columns to the right.
ListBox1.AddItem rCell.Address & ":" & rCell(1, 3).Address
End If
Next lCount
If bFound = False Then 'No match
MsgBox "Sorry, no matches", vbOKOnly
End If
End Sub
Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()
'Close UserForm
Unload Me
End Sub
Private Sub ListBox1_DblClick(ByVal Cancel As MSForms.ReturnBoolean)
'Check for range addresses
If ListBox1.ListCount = 0 Then Exit Sub
'GoTo doubled clicked address
Application.Goto Range(ListBox1.Text), True
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
'Procedure level module
Dim lRows As Long
'Set Module level range variable to CurrentRegion _
of the Selection
Set rRange = Selection.CurrentRegion
If rRange.Rows.Count < 2 Then ' Only 1 row
MsgBox "Please select any cell in your table first", vbCritical
Unload Me 'Close Userform
Exit Sub
Else
With rRange
'Set Label Captions to the Table headings
Label1.Caption = .Cells(1, 1)
Label2.Caption = .Cells(1, 2)
Label3.Caption = .Cells(1, 3)
'Set RowSource of ComboBoxes to the appropriate columns _
inside the table
ComboBox1.RowSource = .Columns(1).Offset(1, 0).Address
ComboBox2.RowSource = .Columns(2).Offset(1, 0).Address
ComboBox3.RowSource = .Columns(3).Offset(1, 0).Address
End With
End If
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Terminate()
'Destroy Module level variables
Set rRange = Nothing
strFind1 = vbNullString
strFind2 = vbNullString
strFind3 = vbNullString
End Sub
Now go to Insert>Module and add this code
Sub ShowForm() On Error Resume Next UserForm1.Show On Error GoTo 0 End Sub
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