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I am using an AutoFilter with VBA in Excel that works for regular filters, but not a column formatted
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:=">" & CDate([datecell]), Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria2:= _
"<=" & CDate(WorksheetFunction.EoMonth([datecell], 3))
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When I run a recorded macro, it does not work either. Should the [complete] tag be removed?

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If you change your date cells format to general does it show a number? – Sam Nov 4 '13 at 12:31

Yes, as I said, everything works as it should. There is a problem when the filter is applied. Because the
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recorded macro does not work either. – Spurious Nov 4 '13 at 12:40

Try converting to text instead. such as CDate([datecell]) change to Format([datecell],

"dd-MMM-yy") – Sam Nov 4 '13 at 12:47 Linked
Does not work either, see the answer and my comment below. It's really absurd. – Spurious Nov 4 '13 at 0 Issues with date filtering in VBA
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That does seem a bit odd yes.... what value is [datecell] and
WorksheetFunction.EoMonth([datecell], 3) if you Debug.Print or msgbox them? – greaterthan and lessthan
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Although it's formatted as date in the sheet. – Spurious Nov 4 '13 at 13:01
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Just changed the format for the date from Date to General and it didnt change anything. – Spurious Nov
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if you msgbox(Format([datecell],"dd-MMM-yy")) does it give you 31-Dec-2012? Changing the 0 Visual basic excel: filter to show dates
cell format won't do much, as the underlying value will stay the same. – Sam Nov 4 '13 at 13:08 earlier than today

Note my comment after my answer. The "/" in the format command gets translated to the system date 0 Taking over the date correctly to select the
separator. To force slashes as a separator, you need to do something like: "m""/""d""/""yyyy", or searching criteria
"m\/d\/yyyy" I keep forgetting the subtle differences between VBA Format and Excel TEXT functions (and
the .NumberFormat property) – Ron Rosenfeld Nov 4 '13 at 18:48 1 Autofilter messing up date format?

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Yeah, tried that as well earlier and it didnt work either. It's a mystery to me. Especially given the fact that 1 Excel VBA Saving autofilter settings with
the recorded macro does not work either. – Spurious Nov 4 '13 at 12:48 dates
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you need to convert the format to the american format, like: ">" & Format([datecell], "mm/dd/yyyy")
VBA does not understand another format.
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This syntax works for me:

1 .AutoFilter Field:=2, Operator:=xlFilterValues, Criteria2:=Array(2, Format(Now, "yyyy-mm-dd"))

Hint obtained through a macro registration

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Mago Fabian
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Match your "dd-mm-yyy" to the format of the column, so if you have "16-Aug-16" as your source
data formatting then make the filter as "dd-mmm-yy"
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This worked for me... my column was formatted as dd-mmmm-yyyy and that threw everything out.
Changing the criteria fixed the issue. – SlowLearner Sep 23 '16 at 12:12

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One solution is to set up correctly the format of the target column. If its formatted as "custom", even
if it looks like a date, it won't work.
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You are asking VBA to filter based on a date, therefore the format of the columns has to be a date
too.

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Andrés Roldán
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SO this worked for me pretty clean

0 ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$K$35727").AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:= _

">=" & Range("G1"), Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria2:="<=" & Range("H1")

You can try this as well

Expected output will start date in my G1 cell and end date will be H1 cell.

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Karlos Henrique, Thanks for suggesting Format([datecell], "mm/dd/yyyy"). It works in my file. My

previous code is :
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Range("A1:D" & Trim(Str(LstRec))).AutoFilter Field:=2, _
Criteria1:=">=" & StrtDt, _
Operator:=xlAnd, _
Criteria2:="<=" & EndDt

My modified code is :

Range("A1:D" & Trim(Str(LstRec))).AutoFilter Field:=2, _

Criteria1:=">=" & Format(StrtDt, "mm/dd/yyyy"), _
Operator:=xlAnd, _
Criteria2:="<=" & Format(EndDt, "mm/dd/yyyy")

Thanks.

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I had similar problem, while filtering column with date. When I changed system date format to
01/01/2020, it converted my date to 1/1/2020 in Criteria field. My solution was to convert arguments
0 to str during setting to function.

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Piotr Kotarba
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here's the occam's razor solution... try putting this in Autoopen for the spreadsheet or if you need
to, modify it for the sheet that you wish to affect. it will cause the drop down filters for the date
-1 headers to appear as individual dates and not as a date hierarchy.

ActiveWindow.AutoFilterDateGrouping = False

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Joe Messingschlager
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