Check if string is in range Excel-VBA with Filter command

Question

Im trying to check if a range of cells each have a value defined in another range

This is my current code:

Sub CheckInstallationName()

    Dim LastRow As Long

    With Worksheets(2)
        LastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, Worksheets(1).Cells(4, 3).Value).End(xlUp).Row
    End With

    Dim rngA As Range
    Set rngA = Range(Worksheets(1).Cells(4, 3).Value & "4:" & Worksheets(1).Cells(4, 3).Value & LastRow)

    Dim cellA As Range
    Dim InstallationNameRange As Variant

    InstallationNameRange = Worksheets(1).Range("B16:B32").Value

    For Each cellA In rngA
        If UBound(Filter(InstallationNameRange, cellA.Value)) < 0 Then
            'Some code
        End If
    Next cellA

End Sub

On the If UBound(filter(InstallationNameRange, cellA.Value)) < 0 Then I get the error "Run-time error '13': Type mismatch" and cannot find a solution for this. Probably it is a very small fix. Without this if-statement the code works

Answer 1

Open a new Excel and write the following:

Public Sub CheckRangeInRange()

    Dim rngA        As Range
    Dim rngB        As Range
    Dim rngCellA    As Range
    Dim rngCellB    As Range
    Dim blnError    As Boolean

    Set rngA = Worksheets(1).Range("A1:B10")
    Set rngB = Worksheets(1).Range("D10:E20")

    rngA.Interior.Color = vbYellow
    rngB.Interior.Color = vbRed

    For Each rngCellA In rngA
        blnError = True
        For Each rngCellB In rngB
            If rngCellA = rngCellB Then
                blnError = False
            End If
        Next rngCellB
        If blnError Then Debug.Print "Display Error here!"
    Next rngCellA

End Sub

Put some values in A1:B10 and D10:E20 and the addresses of the matching values would be printed in the immediate window.

Answer 2

You can't use Filter on a 2-d range and any array created from a Range is 2-d even if it is a single row or column.

You can use the 'double Transpose trick` per this question . Note the highly up-voted answer, not the accepted one.

Eg:

Option Explicit

Sub Test()

    Dim rng As Range
    Set rng = Sheet2.Range("C20:E20") 'a, b, c

    ' use the double transpose trick to convert 2-d array to 1-d array
    Dim arr As Variant
    arr = Application.WorksheetFunction.Transpose( _
        Application.WorksheetFunction.Transpose(rng.Value))

    ' now Filter will work
    Dim out As Variant
    out = Filter(arr, "a")

    Debug.Print out(0)

End Sub