How to reference and refresh a QueryTable in Excel 2016 in VBA

Question

I'm trying to refresh a query on a cell change, however I can't figure out how to reference the query.

My code: Sheets("Roster Query").QueryTables(0).Refresh

Just errors out with:

Run-time error '1004':

Application-defined or object-defined error

I have a sheet named "Roster Filter" that has query table I want to refresh. How can I get that QueryTable and refresh it?

Edit: Also tried:

For Each qt In Sheets("Roster Query").QueryTables
    qt.Refresh
Next

This does not error out, but the query is not refreshed.

Answer 1

Query tables are a relic of older versions of Excel, before tables were a thing. Not sure how to even create one in Excel 2007+.

If you added your QT via the Data/Get External Data Ribbon menu, what you added was actually a ListObject.

I tested this on Sheet1, adding a simple query - Excel created the ListObject for me:

In the immediate pane, I get these results:

?Sheet1.QueryTables.Count
 0
?Sheet1.ListObjects.Count
 1

And I can reproduce your exact same error:

Sheet1.QueryTables(0).Refresh 'runtime error 1004

The error is simply outrageously misleading, that's all - it should really be an index out of bounds.

The solution is to refresh the ListObject instead:

Sheet1.ListObjects(1).Refresh 'works

You can access the underlying QueryTable object via the ListObject, too:

?Sheet1.ListObjects(1).QueryTable.CommandText 'gives you the query