Judi;
As I noted, the declaration is the "Dim" statement.
The "As" portion tells Excel what the format is.
Try
Dim MyCell as Variant

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Regards
Rob
"Judi<<" wrote in message
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Now I have this one. I defined z as long, but VBA is telling me that MyCell
needs to be defined too, how do you define a cell?

Thanks again,
Judi <<


Option Explicit

Sub CountCells()

Dim z As Long

z = 0

For Each MyCell In Selection
z = z + 1
Next

MsgBox "There are " & z & " cells in the selection."

End Sub