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Old 09-15-2017, 11:47 PM
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I often use custom lists in my sorting. These custom lists change a lot and old lists accumulate. Is there a macro I can use that can quickly delete all custom lists I have so I don't have to manually delete all of them?



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Old 09-17-2017, 07:26 AM
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From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...g-lists-in-vba
Code:
Sub RemoveCustomLists()
    Dim i As Long
    On Error Resume Next
    For i = 1 To Application.CustomListCount
        Application.DeleteCustomList (i)
    Next i
    On Error GoTo 0
End Sub
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Old 09-18-2017, 10:44 AM
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Nosparks thanks, but for some reason that macro doesn't work. Before I posted this question, I had also tried another macro that I found from another site, but it didn't work either. When I run the macro and check if it deleted the custom lists, it looks like it does at first, but then when I check again later, the custom lists are there again. Do you know what the problem could be?

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Old 09-18-2017, 11:17 AM
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If you type
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? Application.CustomList.Count
in the Immediate widow what is the count ?

please.... just reply don't quote everything.
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Old 09-19-2017, 06:04 AM
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If you type
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? Application.CustomList.Count
in the Immediate widow what is the count ?
I don't know what to do with that. Where do I type it?
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it looks like it does at first, but then when I check again later, the custom lists are there again.
That sounds as if your code is recreating them. In versions post 2003, you don't actually need to add a custom list to sort by one - you can specify the list directly in the properties of the Sort.
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Debaser thanks, but can you explain how to do that?
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Old 10-11-2017, 04:37 AM
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For example:

Code:
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Set ws = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
    With ws.Sort
        With .SortFields
            .Clear
            .Add Key:=ws.Range("A2:A19"), SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
                    Order:=xlAscending, CustomOrder:="h,k,a,d,e", _
                    DataOption:=xlSortNormal
        End With
        .SetRange ws.Range("A1:A19")
        .Header = xlYes
        .MatchCase = False
        .Orientation = xlTopToBottom
        .SortMethod = xlPinYin
        .Apply
    End With
Just amend the CustomOrder string argument.
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Debaser...so I would have to type in all the items in my custom list after CustomOrder:?
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Not necessarily. You can use any function that returns a delimited string like that - e.g. if you already had those items in some cells.
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so if I had 100 items in cells A6-A105 to use as a custom list, what would I need to do to make it work?
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You could use:

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CustomOrder:=Join(Application.Transpose(Range("A6:A105")), ",")
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Not sure if this thread is any longer about deleting custom lists or not,
but it would be interesting to know the answer to post #4
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