Hi Paul, Thank-you for taking the time to look at this and explain it clearly. I have now found the reference you mentioned in the Help...
Excel has a bunch of "interesting" features. Regards - Dave. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:03:03 -0800 From: schreiner_p...@att.net Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Named ranges in macros To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com "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. Find out how Use Messenger in your Hotmail inbox -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! 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