Two things to consider...
You cannot select cells on a sheet unless that sheet is the active sheet.
You do not have to select cells in order to paste into them.
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Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA
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"DJay"
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Using Excel 2003. I have a VBA program that must copy ONLY the FORMULAS and
FORMATS form a given row to a SELECTED range. The paste works fine, but when
the paste finishes, the target cells are still "selected" and have the
selection border around them. I have used Application.CutCopyMode = False to
turn off the selection on the SOURCE cell (which DOES work) and have tried
all of the following to de-select the target cells:
1. select a new area
2. range (1,1)=range(1,2)
3. re-activate the sheet
4. SendKeys {ESC} (also HOME and LEFT)
5. actiivate a ifferent sheet and re-activate the current sheet

None of these de-selects the target area, but if I click on the actual
sheet, I can use ESC, left-arrow, HOME, etc to cause the de-select. ANY
"select" statements following the paste special, cause an error. Any clues.
(I cannot use simple COPY as I do NOT want to copy the data - ONLY formulas
and formats.)

Any hints would be appreciated.