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I have this simple looping macro, but I can't seem how to figure out how to make it run faster. I tried including more update = false statements as well as well as removing any selecting type behavior.

 Sub AbesLoop() Dim wbk As Workbook Dim ws As Integer Dim Filename As String Dim Path As String Dim rCell As Range Dim rRng As Range Dim wsO As Worksheet Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual Path = "PathToFolder" & "\" Filename = Dir(Path & "*.xl??") Set wsO = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1") Do While Len(Filename) > 0 Set wbk = Workbooks.Open(Path & Filename, True, True) ws = wbk.Worksheets.Count For i = 1 To ws Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual Set rRng = Range("b1:b20") For Each rCell In rRng.Cells If rCell <> "" And rCell.Value <> "Not Tested" Then wsO.Cells(wsO.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Value = rCell wsO.Cells(wsO.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(0, 1).Value = rCell.Offset(0, -1) wsO.Cells(wsO.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(0, 2).Value = Right(ActiveWorkbook.FullName, 15) End If Next rCell Next i wbk.Close False Filename = Dir Loop Application.ScreenUpdating = True Application.DisplayAlerts = True Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic End Sub 
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This answer is just going to focus on what you asked for, how to speed up your code. I'm going to go through line by line and note anything that could be done to make it faster.


 Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual Path = "PathToFolder" & "\" Filename = Dir(Path & "*.xl??") Set wsO = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1") 

You might want to add Application.EnableEvents = False. Other than that, nothing to change here, this is about as fast as it's ever going to get.


Do While Len(Filename) > 0 Set wbk = Workbooks.Open(Path & Filename, True, True) ws = wbk.Worksheets.Count For i = 1 To ws Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual Set rRng = Range("b1:b20") 

This is mostly fine, except why are you re-setting all the Application.Settings options to false? They haven't changed from 6 lines ago. Just cut them out.

An obvious way to speed things up is not to open every worksheet in every workbook in this folder, but I'm going to assume that they are all required.

Opening a workbook does take time. If you've got a lot of them to open, then this macro is going to take time to run no matter how much you optimise it.


 For Each rCell In rRng.Cells If rCell <> "" And rCell.Value <> "Not Tested" Then wsO.Cells(wsO.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Value = rCell wsO.Cells(wsO.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(0, 1).Value = rCell.Offset(0, -1) wsO.Cells(wsO.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(0, 2).Value = Right(ActiveWorkbook.FullName, 15) End If Next rCell 

By process of elimination, any performance problems not related to opening the workbooks will be found here.

Fortunately, there are many things to be improved.


My personal #1 rule of fast spreadsheet manipulations:

Thou shalt not directly manipulate data in worksheets

By this I mean, doing anything in a worksheet has huge computational overhead. In the VBA object heirarchy, worksheets are only 2 steps removed from the application object itself. There are layers upon layers of abstractions, events, handlers, objects (not to mention several Billion range objects) buried in a worksheet object, and any time you do something in it, it will trigger a cascade of operations to make sure that nothing in your worksheet gets messed up.

For this reason, you should interact with worksheets as infrequently as possible. If there is data in your worksheet that you need to analyse: access the worksheet once to read the data into an Array, then do all your computations on the Array, then access the worksheet once to read the data back (if applicable).

Your sub then goes like this:

Sub AbesLoop() Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.EnableEvents = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual Dim targetBook As Workbook Dim targetSheet As Worksheet Dim sheetCount As Long Dim targetFilename As String Dim outputSheet As Worksheet Set outputSheet = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1") '/ Get this out of the way until we need it later Dim sheetRange As Range '/ Note the *descriptive*, *unambiguous* names. '/================================================================================================================================================ '/================================================================================================================================================ '/ Create the main array object, define columns, insert headers. Dim testOutputData As Variant testOutputData = Array() Dim testOutputRowIndex As Long testOutputRowIndex = 1 ReDim testOutputData(1 To 3, 1 To testOutputRowIndex) '/ Defined it in a transposed state (column, row) because when extending arrays, if you want to preserve the data, you can only extend the final dimension. Const CELL_VALUE_COLUMN As Long = 1 Const ADJACENT_CELL_VALUE_COLUMN As Long = 2 '/ It would really help when naming to know what this data actually is that you need to copy. Const WORKBOOK_NAME_COLUMN As Long = 3 testOutputData(CELL_VALUE_COLUMN, testOutputRowIndex) = "Cell Value" testOutputData(ADJACENT_CELL_VALUE_COLUMN, testOutputRowIndex) = "Cell Value in adjacent (to left) column" testOutputData(WORKBOOK_NAME_COLUMN, testOutputRowIndex) = "Workbook Name" '/================================================================================================================================================ '/================================================================================================================================================ Dim sheetData As Variant sheetData = Array() Dim i As Long, j As Long Dim cellValue As Variant, adjacentCellValue As Variant targetFilename = Dir(FOLDER_PATH & "*.xl??") Do While Len(targetFilename) > 0 Set targetBook = Workbooks.Open(FOLDER_PATH & targetFilename, True, True) sheetCount = targetBook.Worksheets.Count For i = 1 To sheetCount Set targetSheet = targetBook.Sheets(i) Set sheetRange = targetSheet.Range("a1:b20") '/ include the adjacent column in our data sheetData = sheetRange For j = 1 To 20 cellValue = sheetData(j, 2) '/ column "a" is in 1, so "b" is 2 If cellValue <> "" And cellValue <> 0 And cellValue <> Null And cellValue Is Not Nothing And cellValue <> "Not Tested" Then '/ Check for other versions of [No Data] adjacentCellValue = sheetData(j, 1) testOutputRowIndex = testOutputRowIndex + 1 ReDim Preserve testOutputData(1 To 3, 1 To testOutputRowIndex) '/ add an extra row to the end testOutputData(CELL_VALUE_COLUMN, testOutputRowIndex) = cellValue testOutputData(ADJACENT_CELL_VALUE_COLUMN, testOutputRowIndex) = adjacentCellValue testOutputData(WORKBOOK_NAME_COLUMN, testOutputRowIndex) = targetBook.Name End If Next j Next i targetBook.Close False targetFilename = Dir Loop '/ --> [Transpose data array back to (row, column) form]. You can find a function on the internet or write your own. '/ print final data array back to sheet Set sheetRange = outputSheet.Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(testOutputRowIndex, 3)) sheetRange = testOutputData Application.ScreenUpdating = True Application.DisplayAlerts = True Application.EnableEvents = True Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic End Sub 
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  • \$\begingroup\$ Original OP here. I didnt know I could get all this information without opening the workbooks. I am still new at this. What is the generic syntax to be able to do that? I didnt think to load the copy'd information into an array, so that is actually a really good idea. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 17:06
  • \$\begingroup\$ If you want to read the data without actually opening the workbook? That's a good question. I'm not very familiar with doing that myself. I recommend googling around and looking through SO. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 17:40
  • \$\begingroup\$ You connect to it via ADODB @DougCoats. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 11:34
  • \$\begingroup\$ @DougCoats you can use something like this if you always use the same sheet name and cell range. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 2, 2016 at 12:48

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