"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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_Default is a hidden member of the Range object, so you won't see it in
the Object Browse unless you enable "Show Hidden Members".

Wow! VBA just gets bigger and bigger <g
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"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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Sandy,

This type of offsetting doesn't use a 0-based index as does the Offset
property. Instead, it actually calls the default method of the Range
object, named _Default, which uses a 1-based index. Code like

Debug.Print Range("A1")(2,2).Address

is really shorthand code for the more explicit

Debug.Print Range("A1").[_Default](2, 2).Address

_Default is a hidden member of the Range object, so you won't see it in
the Object Browse unless you enable "Show Hidden Members". Once you do
this, you'll see that it is indeed defined as the default method of a
Range.

Since [_Default] is 1-based, and Offset is 0-based, the following
statement are functionally equivalent:

Debug.Print Range("A1").[_Default](2, 2).Address
Debug.Print Range("A1")(2, 2).Address
Debug.Print Range("A1").Offset(1, 1).Address

Whether to use the default method or to use Offset is a matter of personal
preference and style. My only recommendation is that you choose one and
stick with it. Don't mix references using _Default with references using
Offset. They won't conflict with one another -- they play together just
fine -- but mixed reference styles may be confusing and might make
debugging/maintaining code more difficult.

Alan Beban gave me religion on _Default about 10 years ago, and it is just
my personal preference for coding style. It is probably a few nanoseconds
faster than Offset, but in practical terms there is no real difference.
Pick a style you like and stick with it.


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"Sandy Mann" wrote in message
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Hi Chip,

May I ask what type of *offset* you are using in your code - or point me
to somewhere that I can look it up for myself.

What I mean is that your:

Set StartRng = StartRng(2, 1)

looks like it equivelant to:

Set StartRng = StartRng.Offset(rowoffset:=1, columnoffset:=0)

or Set StartRng = StartRng.Offset(1, 0)

What really surprises me is that

Set StartRng = StartRng(0, 0)

seems to be the StartRng minus one row and minus one column which is
definitely non-intuitive, (at least not the way that my mind works)

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"Chip Pearson" wrote in message
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Eric,

It was an interesting little diversion from the usual questions in the
newsgroup. It was fun to write. I put the solution up on my web site, on
a page describing how to fill missing entries in a series of numbers.
The two problems are only tangentially related, but I couldn't think of
any other relevant page on this on which to include it.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/Insert....htm#SumSeries .


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"efandango" wrote in message
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Hello Chip,

That sir, is fantastic!. it did for me in the blink of an eye, what I
have
previously spent an eye-straining excessive amount of time on...

thank you

much appreciated.


regards

Eric

"Chip Pearson" wrote:

If I understand your question properly, you want find a contiguous
range of
cells that adds up to a particular number, 68 in your example. The
following
code will search column A looking for a series of contiguous cells
that add
up to the value in cell B1. It will scan until either the answer is
found or
a blank cell is encountered in column A, in which there is no series
that
adds up to Answer.

Sub FindSeries()

Dim StartRng As Range
Dim EndRng As Range
Dim Answer As Long
Dim TestTotal As Long

Answer = Range("B1") '<<< CHANGE

Set StartRng = Range("A1")
Set EndRng = StartRng
Do Until False
TestTotal = Application.Sum(Range(StartRng, EndRng))
If TestTotal = Answer Then
Range(StartRng, EndRng).Select
Exit Do
ElseIf TestTotal Answer Then
Set StartRng = StartRng(2, 1)
Set EndRng = StartRng
Else
Set EndRng = EndRng(2, 1)
If EndRng.Value = vbNullString Then
MsgBox "No series found"
Exit Do
End If
End If
Loop
End Sub



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Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email address is on the web site)


"efandango" wrote in message
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Can excel find (and highlight) a continuous sequence of numbers
using a
known
total as reference from the following list of numbers?

the answer is 68.

8
6
3
2
6
10
9
4
12
8
6
1
8
10
8
14
10
9
12
12
14
6
4
3
4
4
4
0
6
10
4
9
6
3
11
12
10
7
12
8
8