Question

Let say I have a sheet in with columns Customer and CreatedDate with lots of row with data. Anyone who knows how to setup (through VBA or Formula) a second sheet that displays rows from the first sheet based on certain where statements, i.e. all rows with customers ‘created this month.’ (similar to a select … where query against a SQL database).

Thanks! /Niels

Answer 1

There isn’t an exact equivalent to the SQL select ... where functionality in Excel, but take a look at the VLOOKUP function. It may be what you are looking for. If that doesn’t have enough functionality, you will probably have to use VBA:

 Dim DataRange as Range Dim RowNum as Integer Dim NewRow as Integer Dim TestMonth as Integer Dim ThisMonth as Integer  Set DataRange = Range(Sheet1.Cells(1,1), Sheet1.Cells(100,2))  ThisMonth = Application.WorksheetFunction.Month(Application.WorksheetFunction.Today())  NewRow = 1 For RowNum from 1 to DataRange.Rows.Count     TestMonth = Application.WorksheetFunction.Month(DataRange.Cells(RowNum, 1).Value)     if TestMonth = ThisMonth Then         Sheet2.Cells(NewRow, 1).Value = DataRange.Cells(RowNum, 2).Value         NewRow = NewRow + 1     End If Next RowNum