How to find a value in an excel column by vba code Cells.Find

I have to find a value celda in an Excel sheet. I was using this vba code to find it:

Set cell = Cells.Find(What:=celda, After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:= _
    xlFormulas, LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:= _
    xlNext, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)


If cell Is Nothing Then
    'do it something

Else
    'do it another thing
End If

The problem is when I have to find the value only in a excel column. I find it with next code:

    Columns("B:B").Select
    Selection.Find(What:="VA22GU1", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
        LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
        MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False).Activate

But I don't know how to adapt it to the first vba code, because I have to use the value nothing.

Solution 1:

Just use

Dim Cell As Range
Columns("B:B").Select
Set cell = Selection.Find(What:="celda", After:=ActiveCell, LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
        LookAt:=xlWhole, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
        MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)

If cell Is Nothing Then
    'do it something

Else
    'do it another thing
End If

Solution 2:

Just for sake of completeness, you can also use the same technique above with excel tables.

In the example below, I'm looking of a text in any cell of a Excel Table named "tblConfig", place in the sheet named Config that normally is set to be hidden. I'm accepting the defaults of the Find method.

Dim list As ListObject
Dim config As Worksheet
Dim cell as Range


Set config = Sheets("Config")
Set list = config.ListObjects("tblConfig")

'search in any cell of the data range of excel table
Set cell = list.DataBodyRange.Find(searchTerm)

If cell Is Nothing Then
    'when information is not found
Else
    'when information is found
End If

Solution 3:

I'd prefer to use the .Find method directly on a range object containing the range of cells to be searched. For original poster's code it might look like:

Set cell = ActiveSheet.Columns("B:B").Find( _
    What:=celda, _
    After:=ActiveCell _
    LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
    LookAt:=xlWhole, _
    SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
    SearchDirection:=xlNext, _
    MatchCase:=False, _
    SearchFormat:=False _
)

If cell Is Nothing Then
    'do something
Else
    'do something else
End If

I'd prefer to use more variables (and be sure to declare them) and let a lot of optional arguments use their default values:

Dim rng as Range
Dim cell as Range
Dim search as String

Set rng = ActiveSheet.Columns("B:B")
search = "String to Find"
Set cell = rng.Find(What:=search, LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=False)

If cell Is Nothing Then
    'do something
Else
    'do something else
End If

I kept LookIn:=, LookAt::=, and MatchCase:= to be explicit about what is being matched. The other optional parameters control the order matches are returned in - I'd only specify those if the order is important to my application.