Thank you all for your responses.

Ryan: I tried to see whether there are any hidden characters or anything
with the Ctrl+End, there were no hidden characters. the cursor always stopped
at the last column.

Rick, I used your function and realized that it calculates the lastcolumn in
the first sheet, and always using the same number as lastcolumn in all other
sheets.

somehow the Lastcolumn is not being calculated in each sheet.
Could you see my code in the original post and advise me ?

thank you very much in advance,
Sheela


"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Are you looking to locate the last displayed value in Row 2 or the last cell
in Row 2 with anything in it? That last part refers to formulas that are
currently displaying the empty string ("")... the uncommented Lastcolumn
statement finds the last cell with anything in it (a value OR a formula even
if that formula is displaying the empty string). If you are after the column
with the last displayed value in it (even if there cells after it with
formulas currently displaying empty strings), then use this statement
instead...

Lastcolumn = ActiveSheet.Rows(2).Find(What:="*", LookIn:=xlValues, _
SearchOrder:=xlByColumns, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Column

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Sheela" wrote in message
...

I have a macro to find a last column in all the worksheets in a workbook.
In some sheets it is correctly selecting the last column, but in some
sheets
it is passing the last column and selecting some other column on way right
to
it.
I tried to use the following two methods, both are working the same way.

Could someone figure out the correct way to find the last column?

Public Sub test()

Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim Lastrow, Lastcolumn As Long

On Error Resume Next

For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets

With ws

Lastrow = .Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
'Lastcolumn = ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeLastCell).Column
Lastcolumn = ActiveSheet.Cells(2, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

.Cells(Lastrow, 1).Copy
.Range(.Cells(1, Lastcolumn + 1), .Cells(Lastrow, Lastcolumn +
1)).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll, Transpose:=True

End With

Next ws
On Error GoTo 0

End Sub