I've been looking for a solution to using .PasteSpecial more than once in a an excel vba macro.I have reports that can sometimes have thousands of rows. In these reports are two columns, I need to merge these columns so that if one column has blanks, I want the value from the second column; otherwise, just keep the value in the first column. I need to apply this twice in two different places. This is all tucked into a larger code.
My solution is to utilize .PasteSpecial with "Skip Blanks". It is quick for excel to process, much faster than looping row by row. The problem is that the code keeps crashing excel.
After debugging, here is what I've learned so far:*The first .PasteSpecial always works, but when it gets to the second .PasteSpecial it always fails.*I've tried STOP after the first .PasteSpecial then step through the code, and after I step through the second.PasteSpecial the code works just fine.*If I step through the second .PasteSpecial it works like nothing is wrong - but if I just run the code like normal it crashes.*I switched the order of the two .PasteSpecials within the code. When I do this, it no longer crashes on the problematic .PasteSpecial, but it does crash on the originally working .PasteSpecial.
Based on this, I know the problem is Excel doesn't like .PasteSpecial twice in a code. Still cannot find a work around. I've tried emptying the clip board, and I don't know enough how to set up an array let alone if that is efficient for this much data. Anybody know of a solution or work around?
Here is my .PasteSpecial code:
MainSheet.Range("N:N").CopyMainSheet.Range("P:P").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:=True, Transpose:=FalseMainSheet.Range("R:R").CopyMainSheet.Range("Q:Q").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:=True, Transpose:=False