select, copy and paste range of rows based on a date value in a cell in a sorted by date list

Question

I need some help with some VBA in Excel to find a particular cell value (ie today's date) and then based on that criteria select, copy and paste a range of rows into another worksheet based on the criteria that they are in the past or future. My worksheet is sorted ASC by date and have read a number of posts simillar to this problem but I didn't solve on my own so don't know if my problem is lack of expertise in working with dates, or that all the threads I read had slightly different requirements.

A sample of the source worksheet looks like this;

givenName   RegistrationStartDate
Kirstie     1/07/2010
Momena      12/01/2011
Seyedkazem  18/01/2011
Christie    3/02/2011
Jakub       8/02/2011
Steven      11/07/2011
Patrina     13/07/2011
Gregory     14/07/2011
Fatima      15/07/2011
Thomas      18/07/2011
Ala         **19/07/2011**
Anne        31/07/2011
Umair       1/08/2011
Laura       2/08/2011

And I need help with VBA to find today's date 19/07/2011 and paste this into a 'in the past' worksheet;

givenName   RegistrationStartDate
Kirstie     1/07/2010
Momena      12/01/2011
Seyedkazem  18/01/2011
Christie    3/02/2011
Jakub       8/02/2011
Steven      11/07/2011
Patrina     13/07/2011
Gregory     14/07/2011
Fatima      15/07/2011
Thomas      18/07/2011

and 'in the future' worksheet

givenName   RegistrationStartDate
Anne        31/07/2011
Umair       1/08/2011
Laura       2/08/2011

I guess what might have been adding to my grief is that I specifically don't need any rows with today's date. Once I get this sorted out I will be adding logic to the 'what date is it now' criteria (ie 28 days before and after today's date) and copy/pasting rows based on that. I think if some kind guru can help me with the above, I should be okay from there.

Best Regards

Larry

Answer 1

So to answer your question, the function to get the current date (ie the system date which hopefully is the same), you use the Date function.

Now you process he list and compare each date with the system date;

• dates < sysdate are past
• dates > sysdate are future
• dates = sysdate are ignored

if your dates in the table contain time information, you must use Int(yourtabledate) to get rid of the time, because 02.08.2011 08:12 > 02.08.2011 (with implicit time 00:00 ) and would therefore go to future which you don't want.

For ther rest... if you don't know how to fomulate a loop across a table in VBA, post a specific question.

Cheers Mike