Conditional table row delete (table positioning issue)

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Ran into an unexpected issue with conditional Table row delete. I have two tables with each checking the other for contents (with ISNUMBER & MATCH formula). I'm trying to delete all table rows from Table MASTER where ID value doesn't exist in Table QUERY - easy enough.

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After launching the code to do this (filtering "FALSE" and deleting the visible table area), I get an error message "This won't work because it would move cells in a table on your worksheet".

The code will run in case I position those tables on top of each other (or split them over to different worksheets). Neither is great for readability (but doable). It just feels a little bogus error message as I still try to delete rows within the single table.

Do you guys have any suggestions how to handle this better or should I just re-position those tables? On the flip side, keeping the code relatively simple is important too. Are there any good alternatives to ditching the autofilter and running some sort of a loop that deletes rows based on condition? Given it's a piece of a bit more extensive code, I'll probably just re-position tables instead of running the loop with the aim to skip autofilter (to keep the code relatively easy).

Code:
Sub DeleteRows()

Dim Tbl As ListObject
Set Tbl = ActiveSheet.ListObjects("MASTER")

Application.DisplayAlerts = False

Tbl.Range.AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:="FALSE"
Tbl.DataBodyRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Delete

End Sub
 
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Code:
[color=darkblue]Sub[/color] DeleteRows()
    [color=darkblue]Dim[/color] rng [color=darkblue]As[/color] Range
    
    [color=darkblue]With[/color] ActiveSheet.ListObjects("MASTER")
        .Range.AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:="FALSE"
        [color=darkblue]Set[/color] rng = .DataBodyRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
        .Range.AutoFilter
        rng.Delete Shift:=xlShiftUp
    [color=darkblue]End[/color] [color=darkblue]With[/color]
    
[color=darkblue]End[/color] [color=darkblue]Sub[/color]
 
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Try this...

Code:
[COLOR=darkblue]Sub[/COLOR] DeleteRows()
    [COLOR=darkblue]Dim[/COLOR] rng [COLOR=darkblue]As[/COLOR] Range
    
    [COLOR=darkblue]With[/COLOR] ActiveSheet.ListObjects("MASTER")
        .Range.AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:="FALSE"
        [COLOR=darkblue]Set[/COLOR] rng = .DataBodyRange.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
        .Range.AutoFilter
        rng.Delete Shift:=xlShiftUp
    [COLOR=darkblue]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkblue]With[/COLOR]
    
[COLOR=darkblue]End[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkblue]Sub[/COLOR]

Hi AlphaFrog, that looks to be working fine. Thanks!

Could you briefly describe the difference though which makes this code run better? Are there any obvious risks involved? I assume the focus is on:

Code:
.Delete Shift:=xlShiftUp
 
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Deleting while filtered seems to be the snag with a table. This code stores the cells to delete, unfilters, then deletes.
 
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