I've been struggling with this for days, and this group is my last hope.

I need to select a large subset of autoshapes from a larger set of the
autoshapes in a worksheet. I tried recording a macro, to see how
the selection process gets coded by Excel. But the business end
of the macro is:

ActiveSheets.Shapes.Range(Array(...)).select

where ... is a list of variants containing the name-property values of the
autoshapes, separated by commas.

I can fill an array of variants with the name-property values of interest.
But for the life of me I can't get the array of variants into the argument
field of the Array function.

Is there some simple way of selecting many shapes from a larger set of
shapes and doing so programmatically? I just don't have much hair
left that I can pull out any more.

Tony Rizzo