How to get the range of occupied cells in excel sheet

Question

Hi all,

I use C# to automate an excel file. I was able to get the workbook and the sheets it contains. If for example I have in sheet1 two cols and 5 rows. I wanted o get the range for the occupied cells as A1:B5. I tried the following code but it did not give the correct result. the columns # and row # were much bigger and the cells were empty as well.

     Excel.Range xlRange = excelWorksheet.UsedRange;
     int col = xlRange.Columns.Count;
     int row = xlRange.Rows.Count;

Is there another way I can use to get that range? I would appreciate your help. Thanks in advance, Sarah

Answer 1

See the Range.SpecialCells method. For example, to get cells with constant values or formulas use:

_xlWorksheet.UsedRange.SpecialCells(
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlCellType.xlCellTypeConstants |
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlCellType.xlCellTypeFormulas)

Answer 2

dim lastRow as long   'in VBA it's a long 
lastrow = wks.range("A65000").end(xlup).row

Answer 3

Excel.Range last = sheet.Cells.SpecialCells(Excel.XlCellType.xlCellTypeLastCell, Type.Missing);
Excel.Range range = sheet.get_Range("A1", last);

"range" will now be the occupied cell range