arguments can be passed by name or by position. If the Destination:= is not
use, you are passing by position.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Garry Douglas" wrote in message
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Tom

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.

I also discovered through trial and error (a.k.a. Help) that the
Destination
part of the Range.Copy (Destination) argument could have been expressed as
Destination:=Range(copycell).Offset(0, 1) which seems to proves your
double
parenthesis theory :-) I assume that the "Destination:=" qualifier is
optional.

Regards

Garry

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Sub Tester1()
Range("B7").Select
Let copycell = Selection.Offset(3, 2).Address(False, False)
Range(copycell).Copy Range(copycell).Offset(0, 1)
End Sub

worked fine for me. I believe you had an extra pair of parenthesis
around

Range(copycell).Offset(0, 1)

so it was

Range(copycell).Copy (Range(copycell).Offset(0, 1))

That extra pair of parentheses causes the range reference to be
dereferenced, so it becomes the wrong type argument to the copy command.
I
would expect your second example to have similar problems, but perhaps
you
actually omitted the second set of parentheses and avoided the problem.
But
I definitely get your error message if I enclose the second argument in
parentheses.

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Garry Douglas" wrote in message
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Hi

Can someone please explain where I'm going wrong with this simple two
line
chunk of code?

B7 is the currently selected cell on the active sheet.

I've assigned the cell reference for D10 to a variable named copycell
by
using the following line:

Let copycell = Selection.Offset(3,2).Address(False,False)

All I want to be able to do is copy the contents of D10 (an = sum()
formula)
to E10 using the Range.Copy ([Destination]) method but if I use Range
(copycell).Copy (Range(copycell).Offset (0,1)) it returns Run Time
Error
1004 (Copy method of Range class failed).

However, if I use a range object offset from the current cell (B7) as
the
destination i.e. Range (copycell).Copy (Selection.Offset (3,3)) it
pastes
the relative formula from D10 into E10 as required.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Garry Douglas

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