instead use:
ActiveSheet.ScrollArea = "range1"
and to remove
ActiveSheet.ScrollArea = ""
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"Ashman" wrote in message ...
Is there any way of setting the scroll area of a spread sheet ie: using the
.scrollarea = function in VB where the scroll area may not be known at the
time of writing the vb code.

Instead of using activesheet.scrollarea = "a1:p34"

I want to use activesheet.scrollarea = range1 : where range1 has been
determined

Can this be done?