Use table or range for this application?

RobertSF

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We have a mailbox that receives work requests. We will use Excel to get the emails from Outlook, extract the work request information from each, and create a spreadsheet. Someone will go over the spreadsheet and assign names to each work request, and then VBA will "chop" the spreadsheet into smaller spreadsheets, each with the work assigned to each person. In other words, we'll take master_work.xlsx and create from it bob_work.xlsx, joe_work.xlsx, betty_work.xlsx, etc.

This will involve sorting the table/range and extracting row ranges for each person. My question is: do Excel tables have features that make this easier than ordinary ranges in VBA? (e.g. NOT mouse and keyboard manipulation).

I've read about the nice features tables have regarding formatting, named columns, total rows, etc., but this application requires none of that.
 

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Hey, thanks for that link. I've been looking more into it, and it looks like most of the benefits of tables are for end users. From a VBA point of view, it doesn't seem that it's any simpler to deal with tables than it is with ranges.
 
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