Code:
Sub CompareDriverFilesDeviceManagerInDriverStore() ' http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2408-Windows-10-and-Office-Excel/page11#post12277
Rem 0
If ActiveSheet.Name <> "DeviceManagerProperties" Then
MsgBox prompt:="Oops": Exit Sub
Else
End If
Rem 1 Worksheets info
Dim WsDMP As Worksheet, WsDrSt As Worksheet
Set WsDMP = Worksheets("DeviceManagerProperties"): Set WsDrSt = Worksheets("DriverStore")
Rem 2 Looking at each cell in the selection
' Random number between 3 and 56 to get color index for any matching file names (1 is black, 2 is white , up to 56 is other colors: 3 to 56 is like (0 to 53)+3 Rnd gives like 0-.99999 so (Int(Rnd*54))+3 is what we want
Dim ClrIdx As Long
Randomize: Let ClrIdx = (Int(Rnd * 54)) + 3
Dim SrchForCel As Range
For Each SrchForCel In Selection ' Take each cell in selected range. Each should be a cell in DeviceManagerProperties
Dim CelVl As String: Let CelVl = SrchForCel.Value
If CelVl <> "" And Left(CelVl, 3) = "C:\" And InStr(4, CelVl, ".", vbBinaryCompare) > 1 Then ' use some criteria to check we have a file path
Dim FileNmeSrchFor As String
Let FileNmeSrchFor = Right(CelVl, (Len(CelVl)) - (InStrRev(CelVl, "\", -1, vbBinaryCompare))) ' Determine the file name as that looking from the right as many characters as (the total character number) - (the position looking from the right of a "\") --- the characters count left over after the subtraction is equal to the character length of the file name
Rem 3 We now should have a file name, so we look for it in worksheet DDAllBefore
Dim SrchRng As Range: Set SrchRng = Application.Range("=DriverStore!D5:DriverStore!F4437") '
Dim FndCel As Range: Set FndCel = SrchRng.Find(what:=FileNmeSrchFor, After:=Application.Range("=DriverStore!D5"), LookAt:=xlPart, searchorder:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False) '
If Not FndCel Is Nothing Then ' the range is set, so the file string has been found in a cell in DDAllBefore
Rem 4 we have two matching cells
'4a) but we might already have a match,
If SrchForCel.Font.Color <> 0 Then ' Extra things to do if we already found the cell value in drivers
Let ClrIdx = SrchForCel.Font.ColorIndex ' this will make the line below to colorthe text of this cell redundant but will ensure that we use the same color in the DriverStore worksheet rather than the randomly generated one
WsDMP.Activate: SrchForCel.Select
Let SrchForCel.Font.Underline = True
Else
End If
'Debug.Print FndCel.Value
'4b) color matching file names in each worksheet, we do the unecerssary activating and selecting so we can see what is going in
WsDMP.Activate: SrchForCel.Select ' This worksheet will be colured
Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"))
'Let SrchForCel.Characters(((InStrRev(CelVl, "\", -1, vbBinaryCompare)) + 1), (Len(CelVl)) - (InStrRev(CelVl, "\", -1, vbBinaryCompare))).Font.ColorIndex = ClrIdx
Let SrchForCel.Font.ColorIndex = ClrIdx
Let SrchForCel.Font.Italic = True
WsDrSt.Activate: FndCel.Select ' the other workseet
Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("00:00:02"))
Let FndCel.Font.ColorIndex = ClrIdx
Else ' No match was found - the thing in the cell in this worksheet is not in the other worksheet
End If
Else ' case no file path string in cell
End If
Next SrchForCel
End Sub
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