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How to get from inside a VB macro the currently marked cell?
Both suggested commands do NOT work.
If I use them e.g. in a command like: Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(Activecell) or Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(Selection.cells(1)) then Excel crashes with the following popup: "Run-time error '1004': Application defined of object-defined error" What's wrong? Other possibilities of getting the currently marked cell? Claudia Maybe Activecell or Selection.cells(1) Claudia d'Amato wrote: Assume I have opened a worksheet and marked exactly one cell (e.g. D47). Now I want to run a VB macro. How can I find out from inside this macro which cell is currently marked in the current worksheet? This should look similar to: Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(getcurrentlymarkedcell()) Obviously "getcurrentlymarkedcell()" does not exists. Which function can I use instead? If the user accidentially marked a range of cells instead of a single cell then only the first/upper+leftmost cell should be returned. Claudia -- Dave Peterson |
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How to get from inside a VB macro the currently marked cell?
Set baseCell = Activecell
or Set baseCell = Selection.cells(1) ===== When you do this: Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(Activecell) it's the equivalent of: Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(Activecell.value) If the value in the activecell looks like an address (B5 or 3:8 or x:z), then it'll work--but probably(!) not what you want. If the value in the activecell is anything else (a number, a string, an error, ....), then it'll fail. Claudia d'Amato wrote: Both suggested commands do NOT work. If I use them e.g. in a command like: Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(Activecell) or Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(Selection.cells(1)) then Excel crashes with the following popup: "Run-time error '1004': Application defined of object-defined error" What's wrong? Other possibilities of getting the currently marked cell? Claudia Maybe Activecell or Selection.cells(1) Claudia d'Amato wrote: Assume I have opened a worksheet and marked exactly one cell (e.g. D47). Now I want to run a VB macro. How can I find out from inside this macro which cell is currently marked in the current worksheet? This should look similar to: Set baseCell = ActiveSheet.Range(getcurrentlymarkedcell()) Obviously "getcurrentlymarkedcell()" does not exists. Which function can I use instead? If the user accidentially marked a range of cells instead of a single cell then only the first/upper+leftmost cell should be returned. Claudia -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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