Note: The other languages of the website are Google-translated. Back to English
Log in  \/ 
x
or
x
Register  \/ 
x

or

How to easily reverse selections of selected ranges in Excel?

Supposing you have selected some specific cells of a range, and now you need to inverse the selection: deselected the selected cells and select the other cells. See the following screenshot:

Of course, you can reverse the selection manually. But this article will bring you some cute tricks to reverse selections quickly:

Reverse selections in Excel with VBA

Reverse selection in Excel with Kutools for Excel

Office Tab Enable Tabbed Editing and Browsing in Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier...
Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80%
  • Reuse Anything: Add the most used or complex formulas, charts and anything else to your favorites, and quickly reuse them in the future.
  • More than 20 text features: Extract Number from Text String; Extract or Remove Part of Texts; Convert Numbers and Currencies to English Words.
  • Merge Tools: Multiple Workbooks and Sheets into One; Merge Multiple Cells/Rows/Columns Without Losing Data; Merge Duplicate Rows and Sum.
  • Split Tools: Split Data into Multiple Sheets Based on Value; One Workbook to Multiple Excel, PDF or CSV Files; One Column to Multiple Columns.
  • Paste Skipping Hidden/Filtered Rows; Count And Sum by Background Color; Send Personalized Emails to Multiple Recipients in Bulk.
  • Super Filter: Create advanced filter schemes and apply to any sheets; Sort by week, day, frequency and more; Filter by bold, formulas, comment...
  • More than 300 powerful features; Works with Office 2007-2019 and 365; Supports all languages; Easy deploying in your enterprise or organization.

arrow blue right bubble Reverse selections in Excel with VBA

Using VBA macro will make you work easy to reverse selections in the working area of active worksheet.

Step1: Select the cells that you want to reverse them.

Step2: Hold down the Alt + F11 keys in Excel, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

Step3: Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window.

VBA for inverting selections 

Sub InvertSelection()
'Updateby20140314
Dim rng As Range
Dim Rng1 As Range
Dim Rng2 As Range
Dim OutRng As Range
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set Rng1 = Application.Selection
Set Rng1 = Application.InputBox("Range1 :", xTitleId, Rng1.Address, Type:=8)
Set Rng2 = Application.InputBox("Range2", xTitleId, Type:=8)
For Each rng In Rng2
    If Application.Intersect(rng, Rng1) Is Nothing Then
        If OutRng Is Nothing Then
            Set OutRng = rng
        Else
            Set OutRng = Application.Union(OutRng, rng)
        End If
    End If
Next
OutRng.Select
End Sub

Step4: Press the F5 key to run this macro. Then a dialog displays for you to select some cells which you do not need selected in the result. See screenshot:




Step 5: Click OK, and select a range that you want to reverse the selection in another popup dialog. See screenshot:




Step 6: Click OK. you can see the selection has been reversed.


Notes: This VBA is also working in blank worksheet.

arrow blue right bubble Reverse selections in Excel with Kutools for Excel

You may want to quickly reverse any selection in Excel, the Select Range Helper tools of Kutools for Excel can help you quickly reverse selection in Excel. This trick makes it easy for you to reverse any selections in the whole workbook.

Kutools for Excel includes more than 300 handy Excel tools. Free to try with no limitation in 30 days. Get it Now.

Step1: Select the cells that you want to reverse them.

Step2: Click the Kutools > Select Tools > Select Range Helper….

Step3: In Select Range Helper dialog box, check the Inverse Selection option.

Step4: Then drag mouse to select the range that you want to reverse the selections. When you release the mouse, the selected cells have been deselected and the unselected cells have been selected of the range at once.

Step5: And then close the Select Range Helper dialog box.

For more detailed information about Select Range Helper, please visit Select Range Helper feature description.

Related articles:

The Best Office Productivity Tools

Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80%

  • Reuse: Quickly insert complex formulas, charts and anything that you have used before; Encrypt Cells with password; Create Mailing List and send emails...
  • Super Formula Bar (easily edit multiple lines of text and formula); Reading Layout (easily read and edit large numbers of cells); Paste to Filtered Range...
  • Merge Cells/Rows/Columns without losing Data; Split Cells Content; Combine Duplicate Rows/Columns... Prevent Duplicate Cells; Compare Ranges...
  • Select Duplicate or Unique Rows; Select Blank Rows (all cells are empty); Super Find and Fuzzy Find in Many Workbooks; Random Select...
  • Exact Copy Multiple Cells without changing formula reference; Auto Create References to Multiple Sheets; Insert Bullets, Check Boxes and more...
  • Extract Text, Add Text, Remove by Position, Remove Space; Create and Print Paging Subtotals; Convert Between Cells Content and Comments...
  • Super Filter (save and apply filter schemes to other sheets); Advanced Sort by month/week/day, frequency and more; Special Filter by bold, italic...
  • Combine Workbooks and WorkSheets; Merge Tables based on key columns; Split Data into Multiple Sheets; Batch Convert xls, xlsx and PDF...
  • More than 300 powerful features. Supports Office/Excel 2007-2019 and 365. Supports all languages. Easy deploying in your enterprise or organization. Full features 30-day free trial. 60-day money back guarantee.
kte tab 201905

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

  • Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
  • Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
  • Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!
officetab bottom

 

 

 

 

 

Say something here...
symbols left.
You are guest
or post as a guest, but your post won't be published automatically.
Loading comment... The comment will be refreshed after 00:00.
  • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
    Peter · 3 years ago
    Reverse Selections In Excel With VBA - confirmed not working.

    Please fix.
    • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
      piino · 3 years ago
      Try this:


      Sub InvertSelection()
      Dim rng As Range
      Dim Rng1 As Range
      Dim Rng2 As Range
      Dim OutRng As Range
      Dim xTitleId As String
      xTitleId = "Invert Selection"
      Set Rng1 = Application.Selection
      Set Rng1 = Application.InputBox("Range1 :", xTitleId, Rng1.Address, Type:=8)
      Set Rng2 = Application.InputBox("Range2", xTitleId, Type:=8)
      For Each rng In Rng2
      If Application.Intersect(rng, Rng1) Is Nothing Then
      If OutRng Is Nothing Then
      Set OutRng = rng
      Else
      Set OutRng = Application.Union(OutRng, rng)
      End If
      End If
      Next
      OutRng.Select
      End Sub
  • To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
    Puneet · 6 years ago
    invert selection vba not working