"I can't fine any reference to this style of notation in the Help":
try searching for:
"use ["
or:
"Refer to Cells by Using Shortcut Notation"
It says:
"You can use either the A1 reference style or a named
range within brackets as a shortcut for the Range property.
You do not have to type the word "Range" or use quotation marks"
=======================================
as to the phenomenon:
It's acting as *I* would expect it to.
First of all, unless told otherwise, the Range object
refers to the activesheet.
the Wizards of Microsoft were nice enough to allow us to
NOT always specify the currently Active sheet.
In a SHEET macro (one defined in the Sheet Module)
Notice you're starting out with "Private"
and "WorkSHEET"_Activate.
this tells me that we're already working with
stuff related to THIS SHEET ONLY.
so the "assumption" when you specify a range, it is for the current sheet.
so, again, with the sheet macro, it assumes that the named
range is on the currently active sheet.
the curious part is that the range shortcut of "[]" does NOT
assume the currently active sheet, and therefore
looks to the Name manager to determine the source.
I also noticed that if you create the named range as
related to the "Sheet" instead of the "workbook", the
shortcut version of the Range Object works as it normally does.
using [] for a Sheet defined named range does not work
if you're in another sheet.
interesting...
Paul
________________________________
From: Dave Bonallack <davebonall...@hotmail.com>
To: "excel-macros@googlegroups.com" <excel-macros@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Mon, December 21, 2009 12:00:41 AM
Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Named ranges in macros
Hi XL'ers
I am using XL2003
This is a follow-on from a previous post.
I refer to the use of the following (meaningless) Worksheet Window macro:
Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
With Range("CompNames")
End With
End Sub
If the named range (CompNames) is on the sheet being actived, the code runs ok.
If the named range is not on the sheet being activated, I get the following
error:
Runtime error '1004'
Application-defined or object-defined error
If the 2 code lines are put into normal macro in a module, the error does not
occur.
I have discovered that I can get around this by using:
Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
With [CompNames]
End With
End Sub
But I can't find any reference to this style of notation in the Help. Someone
in this group mentioned it, and I tried it out of desperation.
Has anyone else had this problem, or can anyone else confirm that this is so?
It's been driving me nuts.
Regards - Dave.
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