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Vba last used column in Excel

In the previous chapter, we discussed about last used row.

This chapter deals with last used column in a worksheet. This also has its own importance in programming.

Similar to last used row, there might arise some occassions, where the new data has to be appended along a single row in multiple columns.

For this, the script should know about the last used column in a sheet.

This is where, this logic is used.

Unlike previous chapter, The last used column is found from Cells() object.

The Syntax is

The same logic as before is used here.The excel traverses from very last column

until it finds a non-empty cell in row 1.

The following example illustrates this:

Note that, for demo purpose, we have put a value at Cell N15.

So we are going to find the last used column in Row 15, which is N(14th Column)

The Screenshot of the editor is as shown below:

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