Why don't you want to use COPY. You DON'T need to select or activate cells
to use copy. You must be using the Macro Recorder code as your examples. I
always modify the Recorded macros to remove the activate and selection. for
example

Workbooks("book1.xls").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1: D4").Copy _
Destination:=Workbooks("book2.xls").Sheets("Sheet1 ").Range("A1")


or

With Workbooks("book1.xls").Sheets("Sheet1")
.Range("A1:D4").Copy _
Destination:=Workbooks("book2.xls").Sheets("Sheet1 ").Range("A1")
end With

or

Set DestSht = Workbooks("book2.xls").Sheets("Sheet1")
With Workbooks("book1.xls").Sheets("Sheet1")
.Range("A1:D4").Copy Destination:=DestSht.Range("A1")
end With


"Varne" wrote:

Hi

Is there a VBA technique €“ direct or indirect €“ to read chunks of cells
rather than copying. The following reads b4 to both a1 and a4.

Range("a1,a4").Value = Range("b4,b1").Value

If there is none is there a technique to do copying without selecting or
activating copied or receiving area.

Can someone help?

Thanks.