Hi Guys

I hope you could help me out. I am building a general
search routine but getting stuck & manuplating range. I
have give the partial example below. It is supose to ask
the user select a column containg the list to search for
then. So its bacically an automated Vlookup routine.
However the part it fails is when passing on the column #
to the function. The passed value is a integer where as
function accepts range in "A1" style. I dont know how to
change etier method to make it work. Please advise . I use
Excel 2002 on Windows 2000

Sub test()
' ask the user which column has the list of part numbers
to search for

Set MPLPrice = Application.InputBox _
(Prompt:="Please Select the Sku Column to
Search", Title:=".", Type:=8)

If MPLPrice.Cells.Count = 0 Then Exit Sub
If MPLPrice.Columns.Count < 1 Then
MsgBox "You Can Only Select One Column for Sku Search"
& vbCrLf & "Please Try Agian", vbOKOnly +
vbInformation, "Boo Boo..."
Exit Sub
End If
' get the column number
MPLcol = MPLPrice.Column


' example of search, pass the part number, workbook &
worksheet + serach colun & search value to get column
PartNo = "1234-b21"
Res = SearchSku(PartNo, "ABC.XLS", "PriceList", MPLcol, 9)
MsgBox Res

End Sub

Function SearchSku(Pno As String, WB As String, Sheet As
String, SCol As String, GetCol As Integer)
Res = ""
Set r = Workbooks(WB).Sheets(Sheet).Range(SCol
& ":IV60000")
Res = Application.VLookup(Pno, r, GetCol, False)
If IsError(Res) Then
SearchSku = ""
Else
SearchSku = Res
End If

End Function

Thank you so much in advance
RB