Range.Value = “” type mismatch

Question

I am trying to write some code to format a series of worksheets into a standardized format. To do this, I want to remove blank rows, delete leading spaces, and remove ";*" that start a lot of lines. Upon trying to see if aRow.Value = "", meaning there is no text in the row, a type mismatch error is always returned.

I have tried many different solutions from the internet, but none seem to work.

Sub Format()
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim aRow As Range
    Dim r As Integer
    Dim cel As String

    For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
        For Each aRow In ws.UsedRange.Rows
            If ws.Name = "Sheet1" Then
                Exit For
            End If
            If aRow.Value = "" Then
                aRow.Delete
            End If
            If aRow.Value = " " Then
                aRow.Delete
            End If
            If Left(aRow.Value2, 2) = ";*" Then
                aRow.Value = Right(aRow.Value2, Len(aRow.Value2) - 2)
            Else
                aRow.Delete
            End If
            cel = "A" & aRow.Row
            aRow.Value = Application.WorksheetFunction.Trim(Range(cel).Value)
            If aRow.Value = Empty Then
                aRow.Delete
            End If
        Next
    Next
End Sub

Answer 1

Row represents an entire row in Excel and not a cell. You can not assigning a string value ("") to a row.

In your case, you want to check if the first cell equals to some value. Instead of checking aRow.Value= use aRow.Cells(1).Value .

Once you detected the row to delete, use aRow.Clear() to clear all row content.

Answer 2

Welcome to SO. I think you could replace line

For Each aRow In ws.UsedRange.Rows

by this:

For Each aRow In ws.UsedRange.Columns(1).Cells

That way, you will loop trough each cell of first column.

To delete an entire row, then you could use aRow.EntireRow.Delete

Hope this helps