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Count Number Of Consecutive Blank Cells Using Script

Hi,

I am new to Excel. Please help me with the below problem:
I want to write a script which will count the number of consecutive blank cells in a column. for eg: Assume A1 contains "one" and A5 contains "five". the cells in between A1 and A5 are empty. i want to get a count of the number of blank cells in between A1 and A5, using script. Is there any way i could achieve this?

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Anu


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In Excel there is a difference between cells that are blank (= "") and that are empty. You can make blank cells empty by selecting them and pressing the delete key, but I need a fast way to do this on all blank cells in a large worksheet. The only way I have found is with a VBA macro that loops through every cell, tests for '.Value = "" ' and then uses the '.Clear()' function, but doing this on 30 columns x 10000 rows is far too slow. Any solutions?

(The reason I need to do this is for importing into Access, the database treats empty cells as NULL which is what I want. Blank (but not empty) cells screw the import process up.)


for example if you have values of

1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1
how to count number of occurances where value of 1 is 3 consecutive times? Obviously answer is 3 in this instance but is there an excel formula to count/sum this?

Thanks in advance


Could you guide me please....

I need to insert 5 blank rows repeatedly between every existing data rows
for approximately 300 rows.

If I go about doing the repeat short-cut "Control+Y", it just repeats
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Is there some command, which helps me highlight all the rows & allows me to
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Thanks in advance for your kind advice.



I often use if statements to return empty cells, for example:

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Is there a way to designate, in such a formula as above, to return a TRULY empty cell?

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Hi there,

I have a spreadsheet with some cells setup with a drop-down list containing
Y, N or N/A

This is being used on a TabletPC but if I make a mistake or need to change
back to a blank field I have to invoke the soft keyboard, activate the cell
and hit backspace then close the soft keyboard - quite a long-winded
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What I would like to do is add a blank to the list so if I have to revert
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list.

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choices directly and not specifying a range of cells?

I have tried adding "" and even a space to no avail.

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This is my first post in these forums.
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I am sure there is a relativley simple answer but it is driving me mad!
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On the attached timesheet there are columns IN, OUT, IN,OUT
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Code:

Sub Step4()
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I am new to using Excel and I am not very computer literate. I am looking for some help with a spreadsheet I am making. Here is the problem:

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