VBA: How to Find Minimum Value in Range

You can use the following basic syntax to calculate the minimum value in a range using VBA:

Sub MinValue()
    Range("D2") = WorksheetFunction.Min(Range("B2:B11"))
End Sub

This particular example calculates the minimum value in the range B2:B11 and assigns the result to cell D2.

If you would instead like to display the minimum value in a message box, you can use the following syntax:

Sub MinValue()
    'Create variable to store min value
    Dim minValue As Single
    
    'Calculate min value in range
    minValue = WorksheetFunction.Min(Range("B2:B11"))
    
    'Display the result
    MsgBox "Min Value in Range: " & minValue 
End Sub

The following examples shows how to use each of these methods in practice with the following dataset in Excel that contains information about various basketball players:

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Example 1: Calculate Minimum Value of Range Using VBA and Display Results in Cell

Suppose we would like to calculate the minimum value in the points column and output the results in a specific cell.

We can create the following macro to do so:

Sub MinValue()
    Range("D2") = WorksheetFunction.Min(Range("B2:B11"))
End Sub

When we run this macro, we receive the following output:

Notice that cell D2 contains a value of 10.

This tells us that the minimum value in the points column is 10.

Example 2: Calculate Minimum Value of Range Using VBA and Display Results in Message Box

Suppose we would instead like to calculate the minimum value in the points column and output the results in a message box.

We can create the following macro to do so:

Sub MinValue()
    'Create variable to store min value
    Dim minValue As Single
    
    'Calculate min value in range
    minValue = WorksheetFunction.Min(Range("B2:B11"))
    
    'Display the result
    MsgBox "Min Value in Range: " & minValue 
End Sub

When we run this macro, we receive the following output:

The message box tells us that the minimum value in the range B2:B11 is 10.

Note that in this example we calculated the minimum value in the range B2:B11.

However, if you’d like to instead calculate the minimum value in an entire column you could type B:B instead.

This will calculate the minimum value in all of column B.

Additional Resources

The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in VBA:

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VBA: How to Sum Values in Range