vb/Excel: How to read an excel file in a column WITHOUT specifying the range ??

[Daniel Chartier]

Hello, all.

I found a bit of code that lets me read an Excel file from and to a specifi
range. See the code below. But what if I only want to specify the STARTING
position and simply want it to continue reading down the column until it
hits an empty cell?

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

Here is the range-only code:

' ** turn screen updating off, prevent the user from seeing the source
workbook
' ** then find the file and identify both the worksheet and range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Set sourcewb = Workbooks.Open(file, False, True)
listitems = sourcewb.Worksheets(sheet).range(temp_range).Value

' ** close the source workbook without saving changes, then reactive
screen update
sourcewb.Close False
Set sourcewb = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True

' ** read the data, convert values to a vertical array
listitems = Application.WorksheetFunction.Transpose(listitems)

For count = 1 To UBound(listitems)
' ** read the info into a temporary field
temp_var(count) = listitems(count) ' ** populate the array
Next count

' ** no items selected, set to 0 to select the first item
'Combo_machine.ListIndex = -1

Close Workbook