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Kevin Vaughn Kevin Vaughn is offline
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Default Unable to get Match property of worksheetfunction

Ok, I see what is happening now. When I was testing in the immediate window,
I was using a value that didn't exist in my range, but it fell between values
so there wasn't an error. The first value is less than the value of the
first cell so it is returning #N/A. So that means I can't use this method
(or at least until my value is greater than the first value in my range
subject to testing.)

Thanks.
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Kevin Vaughn


"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

There should be no problem except you might not have a full understanding of
Match. If you don't specify a value it assumes:

MATCH(lookup_value,lookup_array,match_type)
"If match_type is omitted, it is assumed to be 1"

When match_type is equal to 1 or omitted, then data is assumed to be sorted
ascending:

"If match_type is 1, MATCH finds the largest value that is less than or
equal to lookup_value. Lookup_array must be placed in ascending order:
....-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ..., A-Z, FALSE, TRUE."

If your first value in the lookup range is larger than the lookup value, you
could get an error unless there is an exact match.

I think your main problem is data and data orientation.

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Tom Ogilvy


"Kevin Vaughn" wrote in message
...
I searched google groups for this, but all of the questions i found had to

do
with using match with the 3rd argument being 0. Therefore if a match is

not
found, it returns an error. However, I was trying the match function

without
the 3rd argument. I was trying, and doing it successfully from the

immediate
window to find where in my range to insert some rows. However, once the

code
is running, neither worksheetfunction.match nor application.match works.

I
did try, while still in debug mode, to do a match wtih a value that would

be
found. This did return a correct value.

What I am trying to do:
iMatchStore = worksheetfunction.match(sStaffStore, rngCEIWork)
and then later
rngCEIWork.Range("a1").offset(iMatchStore).resize( iStoreDiff) _
.entirerow.insert shift:=xldown

I was unable to find any discussions on google groups that specifically
addressed the issue of when an exact match was not being sought. Perhaps

it
was because I couldn't think of how to phrase it. But, given these
circumstances, does anyone know of a work around. Of course I could just
loop through the range and find it myself, but would prefer it if I could

do
it this or a similar way.

Thanks.

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Kevin Vaughn