Excel VBA - cannot .find date string in range

Question

I wrote some VBA script to search a range of dates in a list, it can find the dates, but for some reason it cannot match them to the target range. I tested the target range wit

Answer 1

I managed to write some code using a loop rather than using the .find which happened to be very inconsistent with dates. I read in another article that using strings for dates is better because the actual numerical value of the date gets stored in the string. I converted the source and target dates to strings and then did a match using a loop which works well. But thank you for your answer, it did put me on the right track!

See below

Dim SourceColumnValue As String, sourcerow As String, targetrow As String, targetcolumnvalue As String, sourcecolumnnumber As String
Dim M As Long, O As Long, P As Long, TargetValue As Long, actualsourcerow As Long, actualtargetrow As Long, actualtargetcolumn As Long, sourcedateposition As Long, actualsourcecolumn As Long, targetdateposition As Long
Dim Copysource As Range, pastetarget As Range

TargetValue = dumpsheet.Cells(rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).row
sourcedateposition = dumpsheet.Cells(rows.Count, 5).End(xlUp).row
targetdateposition = dumpsheet.Cells(rows.Count, 7).End(xlUp).row

'Loop Source Column
For F = 1 To sourcedateposition
SourceColumnValue = dumpsheet.Cells(F, 5).Value
       'Get Target Column Match to Source

                ' Loop to compare strings
                    For P = 1 To targetdateposition
                    targetcolumnvalue = dumpsheet.Cells(P, 7).Value
                    If targetcolumnvalue = SourceColumnValue Then

                       TargetColumnRange.Value = SourceColumnValue
                       targetcolumnvalue = dumpsheet.Cells(P, 8).Value
                       sourcecolumnnumber = dumpsheet.Cells(F, 6).Value

                       For O = 1 To dumpsheet.Cells(rows.Count, "a").End(xlUp).row
                           If O > 1 Then
                           Sourcename = dumpsheet.Cells(O, 1).Value
                           sourcerow = dumpsheet.Cells(O, 2).Value
                           targetrow = dumpsheet.Cells(O, 3).Value

                           'Set Integers
                           actualsourcerow = CInt(sourcerow)
                           actualtargetrow = CInt(targetrow)
                           actualtargetcolumn = CInt(targetcolumnvalue)
                           actualsourcecolumn = CInt(sourcecolumnnumber)


                           'Copy and Paste
                           Set Copysource = SourceSheet.Cells(actualsourcerow, actualsourcecolumn)
                           Set pastetarget = TargetSheet.Cells(actualtargetrow, actualtargetcolumn)
                           Copysource.Copy
                           pastetarget.PasteSpecial (xlPasteValues)
                          End If
                      Next O
                   End If
                Next P
Next F

Answer 2

Using FIND with dates is finnicky, see here

Your code worked on my tested when I changed

Set TargetColumnRange = dumpsheet.Range("G2:G" & TargetValue).Find(what:=SourceColumnValue, _
                                                           LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
                                                           LookAt:=xlWhole, _
                                                           SearchOrder:=xlByRows)

to

Set TargetColumnRange = dumpsheet.Range("G2:G" & TargetValue).Find(what:=DATEVALUE(SourceColumnValue), _
                                                           LookIn:=xlFormulas, _
                                                           LookAt:=xlWhole, _
                                                           SearchOrder:=xlByRows)