How to write a VBA collection to an Excel sheet [duplicate]
I think the easiest way to print a Dictionary onto Excel spreadsheet is by using WorksheetFunction.Transpose(
Variant
type Array
)
The below code
- Creates a sample Dictionary with keys and items
- Creates two Arrays (keys, items) and fills them with the elementsfrom the Dictionary in one go
- Uses
WorksheetFunction.Transpose(VariantArray)
to print arrays inone go
Option Explicit
' Add Reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime' >> Tools >> References >> Microsoft Scripting Runtime
Sub CollectionToArrayToSpreadSheet() Cells.ClearContents ' think of this collection as ' key = cell.row ' item = cell.value Dim dict As New Dictionary dict.Add Key:=1, Item:="value1" dict.Add Key:=2, Item:="value2" dict.Add Key:=3, Item:="value3" ' THIS WAY 'Range("A1:A" & UBound(dict.Keys) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict.Keys) 'Range("B1:B" & UBound(dict.Items) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict.Items) ' OR Range("A1").Resize(UBound(dict.Keys) + 1, 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict.Keys) Range("B1").Resize(UBound(dict.Items) + 1, 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict.Items)End Sub
Update:
In your case...
If this is what you are trying to do (note table
is a Collection)
Range("A1:A" & table.Count) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(table)
Unfortunately, the answer is NO.
You can't transpose a collection over to a spreadsheet without iterating through the collection.
What you can do to speed the process up is:
- turn off
Application.ScreenUpdating
- iterate over the collection and copy the values over to an array,then use the
WorksheetFunction.Transpose()
to printeverything to sheet in one go (use the logic from the firstpart of the answer)
Follow up:
In your case you can rewrite the Sub WriteCollectionToSheet(ByRef table As Collection)
like this (the code looks a bit ugly but the efficiency should be OK)
Sub WriteCollectionToSheet(ByRef table As Collection) Dim dict1 As New Dictionary Dim dict2 As New Dictionary Dim dict3 As New Dictionary Dim dict4 As New Dictionary Dim dict5 As New Dictionary Dim i As Long For i = 1 To table.Count dict1.Add i, table.Item(i).Item1 dict2.Add i, table.Item(i).Item2 dict3.Add i, table.Item(i).Item3 dict4.Add i, table.Item(i).Item4 dict5.Add i, table.Item(i).Item5 Next i Range("A1:A" & UBound(dict1.Items) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict1.Items) Range("B1:B" & UBound(dict2.Items) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict2.Items) Range("C1:C" & UBound(dict3.Items) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict3.Items) Range("D1:D" & UBound(dict4.Items) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict4.Items) Range("E1:E" & UBound(dict5.Items) + 1) = WorksheetFunction.Transpose(dict5.Items)End Sub
More details on VBA Collections iterations and printing to Sheet @ vba4all.com
If I want to write a 2D array that I've populated inside the code to a worksheet, I use this code. It is very efficient, as it only 'talks' to the worksheet once
Dim r as RangeDim var_out as VariantSet r = Range("OutputValues") r.clearvar_out = r.value'Then use code to appropriately fill the new 2D array var_out, such as your subroutine 1 abover.value = var_out
You start by identifying the range in the workbook you want the array to print to. In this example, I assumed I named the output range "OutputValues".
The first assignment of r.value to var_out (my array variable I intend to populate) sets the dimensions of the array variable based on the size of the range. (It also reads in any existing values in the range, so if you don't want that, clear the range as I've shown here.)
The second assignment of the array variable to the range writes the values back to the sheet.