{"id":5145,"date":"2022-08-26T23:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-excel-vba-how-to-remove-columns-where-less-than-x-of-rows-have-value-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T23:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T17:39:29","slug":"solved-excel-vba-how-to-remove-columns-where-less-than-x-of-rows-have-value-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-excel-vba-how-to-remove-columns-where-less-than-x-of-rows-have-value-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Excel VBA &#8211; How to remove columns where less than X% of rows have value [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-53419485\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"53419485\" data-parentid=\"53418863\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"2\" data-highest-scored=\"0\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"0\" itemprop=\"suggestedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The code considers a valid range to be from row 1 to the lowest, non-empty, cell in the column. Fair warning it is currently untested, so try it on a dummy version with known results first. You have to change the constant <code>TargetPercent<\/code> to match whatever X% you want. This could also be pretty slow since it&#8217;s using worksheet functions, but I&#8217;d assume it would still be faster than by hand. I believe that this will also delete any blank columns<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that in the for loop it is important to go from the right to the left so that you don&#8217;t accidentally mess up the indices when you&#8217;re deleting the columns.<\/p>\n<pre><code>Option Explicit\n\nSub test()\nConst TargetPercent = 0.5\nDim nullcells As Long\nDim blankcells As Long\nDim i As Long\nDim lastrow As Long\nDim lastcol\n\nlastcol = ActiveSheet.Cells.Find(\"*\", searchorder:=xlByColumns, searchdirection:=xlPrevious).Column\nFor i = lastcol To 1 Step -1\n    lastrow = ActiveSheet.Cells(ActiveSheet.Rows.Count, i).End(xlUp).row\n    nullcells = Application.CountIf(ActiveSheet.Columns(i), \"null\")\n    blankcells = Application.CountBlank(ActiveSheet.Range(Cells(1, i), Cells(lastrow, i)))\n    If (lastrow - nullcells - blankcells) \/ lastrow &lt; TargetPercent Then\n        Columns(i).Delete (xlShiftToLeft)\n    End If\nNext i\nEnd Sub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">3<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Excel VBA &#8211; How to remove columns where less than X% of rows have value [closed] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The code considers a valid range to be from row 1 to the lowest, non-empty, cell in the column. Fair warning it is currently untested, so try it on a dummy version with known results first. You have to change the constant TargetPercent to match whatever X% you want. 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