Very well explained..
Cheers!!
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Paul Schreiner <schreiner_p...@att.net>
wrote:
> I think you're still getting confused about what VBA is doing and what
> Excel is doing.
> (which are actually two different things)
> VBA is a programming language.
> Visual Basic for Applications.
>
> It can be USED for Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint.
>
> There are variations in VBA for each application.
> Word doesn't have a Range object, so any VBA statement involving Ranges
> and cells is specific to the Excel application.
>
> So, VBA can be used to affect Excel.
>
> But Excel isn't used to affect VBA.
>
> In your case, the Filter is part of Excel.
>
> We can use VBA to affect the Excel filter.
>
> But the filter itself isn't part of VBA, it's part of Excel.
> So your statement:
> "confused here about the date filters in VBA specifically about their
> declaration"
> is not accurate (well, I suppose the "confused" part is :)
> because the date filter isn't IN VBA, nor are the filters being declared.
> VBA is passing the filter requirements to Excel.
>
>
> Now, in my code snippet, I declared a variable: Yesterday.
> But I didn't declare a data type.
>
> VBA makes the default data type "Variant".
> curiously I've encountered cases where the first time a Variant data type
> is used, it is "recast" as a different type.
> For instance, if I were to use:
> Yesterday = 1
> it might be recast as an integer
> yet, when I used:
> Yesterday = Format(Now() - 1, "m/d/yyyy")
> it was "recast" as a string.
>
> the function:
> ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$A$65000").AutoFilter _
> Field:=1, _
> Operator:=xlFilterValues, _
> Criteria2:=Array(2, Yesterday)
>
> actually manages to (I think) cast the Array() as a Variant data type.
>
> So..
> in THIS case, it didn't really matter what data type I used.
>
> If I used:
>
> Dim Yesterday as Date
>
> it works just as well.
>
>
> *Paul*
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> *From:* Nitin Balodi <nitinbal...@live.com>
> *To:* "excel-macros@googlegroups.com" <excel-macros@googlegroups.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 26, 2014 12:35 PM
> *Subject:* RE: $$Excel-Macros$$ Applying Date Filters using VBA
>
> Hi Ashish,
>
> Its working for Dates <9/25/2014 but not for =9/25/2014. Paul's code
> extract worked. But I guess I am confused here about the date filters in
> VBA specifically about their declaration, do I really need to declare
> datatype, or it will automatically get changed to the application specific
> if we do not declare its datatype.
>
> I had done this thing (date filters) in three different macros and used
> three different methods.
>
> Thanks all for your efforts. I really need to work hard on this.
>
> Regards.
>
> Yours Sincerely,
> *Nitin Balodi*
>
>
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:57:18 +0530
> Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Applying Date Filters using VBA
> From: kumar.ashish...@gmail.com
> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
>
> Hi Nitin,
>
> PFA.....!
>
>
> Regards
> Ashish
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