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    excel: delete (or find) cell if it meets certain criteria

    Hello,

    I have a table that scores the number of frames in a movie that fits a certain combination, which is identified by a series of numbers (101010, 10101 for example (71 combinations in total)). From this -in the third column- I can calculate the fraction of frames that falls into a certain category.
    What i want to do is to find the fractions that DO NOT fall into a set of combinations. Or delete the ones the fall into a particular set.
    Basically I want to ignore a bunch of numbers from the first column.
    Or find a way to highlight where this set of combinations are.
    Is there a formula for this? My guess is that VLOOKUP would work but i have basic knowledge of it.
    Hope I managed to explain myself.
    Thanks in advance.

    101011 34 0.165853659
    101010 33 0.16097561
    10101 29 0.141463415
    110101 27 0.131707317
    111110 19 0.092682927
    11101 14 0.068292683
    11111 12 0.058536585
    111011 9 0.043902439
    111111 7 0.034146341

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    Re: excel: delete (or find) cell if it meets certain criteria

    Check the below code that would probably meet up with something to what you want:

    Code:
    Sub myDeleteRows()
    
    Dim MyCol As String
    Dim MyVal As Variant
    Dim i As Integer
    
    MyCol = InputBox("column to look through", "Column Search", "A")
    MyVal = InputBox("Value to look for", "search value", 0)
      For i = 1 To Range(MyCol & "65536").End(xlUp).Row Step 1
        If Application.WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Range("A" & i & ":AZ" & i), MyVal) > 0 Then
        Range("A" & i).EntireRow.Delete
        End If
      Next i
      
    End Sub

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    Re: excel: delete (or find) cell if it meets certain criteria

    Thank for your response. I'm really unfamiliar with macros. Do you think there's a way to do it with a formula. At least is there a formula that searches for multiple items at the same time?

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    Re: excel: delete (or find) cell if it meets certain criteria

    It is a kind of filter search and for that you can use Vlookup which can help. I had used this on my excel sheet to find a data from a peculiar row. The follow is like this way : =IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(A2, 'Sheet A'!$A$1:$A$14000, 1, FALSE)), "not on Sheet A", "found"). Second this is you can use Autofilter option to hide the data which you do not want to see.

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