Question

Issue

Garbage gets erroneously entered into date fields and screws up calculations.

Goal

Using a macro or function to check the contents in a range of cells, determine if they are dates and if not, delete the non-date contents.

What I’ve Tried

Using Search and Replace function to locate and delete offending items. Takes forever and still doesn’t clear everything out.

Any ideas, thanks.

Answer 1

You could try this

Sub DeleteNonDates()
    Dim r As Range, a As Range, cl As Range
    Set r = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
    For Each cl In r.Cells
        If TypeName(cl.Value) <> "Date" Then
            cl.ClearContents
        End If
    Next
End Sub