It doesn't look to me as though you have resized the range "rect" -
you've merely made a selection of some cells based on a resizing of that
range.

Try inserting:

Set RECT = RECT.resize(numRows + 1, numcolumns + 1)

in place of the line before the MSGBOX.

--
Gordon Rainsford

London UK

don wrote:

When resizing a range, excel doesn't seem to acknowledge the new size
In this example rect is increased by 1 row and 1 column.
yet when the number of rows is asked for in the msgbox in replies with
8.
It seems that it should recognize the new size.
How do you get it to acknowledge the new dimensions.
Thanks
Don


Sub resize()
Worksheets("Sheet3").Activate
Set rect = Range("a1:c8")
numRows = rect.Rows.Count
numColumns = rect.Columns.Count
rect.resize(numRows + 1, numColumns + 1).Select
MsgBox rect.Rows.Count
End Sub