How to select clear table contents without destroying the table?
I reworked Doug Glancy's solution to avoid rows deletion, which can lead to #Ref issue in formulae.
Sub ListReset(lst As ListObject)
'clears a listObject while leaving row 1 empty, with formulae
With lst
If .ShowAutoFilter Then .AutoFilter.ShowAllData
On Error Resume Next
With .DataBodyRange
.Offset(1).Rows.Clear
.Rows(1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants).ClearContents
End With
On Error GoTo 0
.Resize .Range.Rows("1:2")
End With
End Sub
There is a condition that most of these solutions do not address. I revised Patrick Honorez's solution to handle it. I felt I had to share this because I was pulling my hair out when the original function was occasionally clearing more data that I expected.
The situation happens when the table only has one column and the .SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants).ClearContents
attempts to clear the contents of the top row. In this situation, only one cell is selected (the top row of the table that only has one column) and the SpecialCells command applies to the entire sheet instead of the selected range. What was happening to me was other cells on the sheet that were outside of my table were also getting cleared.
I did some digging and found this advice from Mathieu Guindon: Range SpecialCells ClearContents clears whole sheet
Range({any single cell}).SpecialCells({whatever}) seems to work off the entire sheet.
Range({more than one cell}).SpecialCells({whatever}) seems to work off the specified cells.
If the list/table only has one column (in row 1), this revision will check to see if the cell has a formula and if not, it will only clear the contents of that one cell.
Public Sub ClearList(lst As ListObject)
'Clears a listObject while leaving 1 empty row + formula
' https://stackoverflow.com/a/53856079/1898524
'
'With special help from this post to handle a single column table.
' Range({any single cell}).SpecialCells({whatever}) seems to work off the entire sheet.
' Range({more than one cell}).SpecialCells({whatever}) seems to work off the specified cells.
' https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40537537/range-specialcells-clearcontents-clears-whole-sheet-instead
On Error Resume Next
With lst
'.Range.Worksheet.Activate ' Enable this if you are debugging
If .ShowAutoFilter Then .AutoFilter.ShowAllData
If .DataBodyRange.Rows.Count = 1 Then Exit Sub ' Table is already clear
.DataBodyRange.Offset(1).Rows.Clear
If .DataBodyRange.Columns.Count > 1 Then ' Check to see if SpecialCells is going to evaluate just one cell.
.DataBodyRange.Rows(1).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants).ClearContents
ElseIf Not .Range.HasFormula Then
' Only one cell in range and it does not contain a formula.
.DataBodyRange.Rows(1).ClearContents
End If
.Resize .Range.Rows("1:2")
.HeaderRowRange.Offset(1).Select
' Reset used range on the sheet
Dim X
X = .Range.Worksheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count 'see J-Walkenbach tip 73
End With
End Sub
A final step I included is a tip that is attributed to John Walkenbach, sometimes noted as J-Walkenbach tip 73
Automatically Resetting The Last Cell
How about:
ACell.ListObject.DataBodyRange.Rows.Delete
That will keep your table structure and headings, but clear all the data and rows.
EDIT: I'm going to just modify a section of my answer from your previous post, as it does mostly what you want. This leaves just one row:
With loSource
.Range.AutoFilter
.DataBodyRange.Offset(1).Resize(.DataBodyRange.Rows.Count - 1, .DataBodyRange.Columns.Count).Rows.Delete
.DataBodyRange.Rows(1).Specialcells(xlCellTypeConstants).ClearContents
End With
If you want to leave all the rows intact with their formulas and whatnot, just do:
With loSource
.Range.AutoFilter
.DataBodyRange.Specialcells(xlCellTypeConstants).ClearContents
End With
Which is close to what @Readify suggested, except it won't clear formulas.
Try just clearing the data (not the entire table including headers):
ACell.ListObject.DataBodyRange.ClearContents