Hope this isn't too terse, but "my macro can't form a Range on an
inactive Worksheet" seems to cover it. It's Excel 2002 on XP. Hope
you can help, I'm baffled. Peter.

If you define the worksheet properly .. e.g.

ThisworkBook.Sheets("SheetName").Range("what_ever_ range)

It will work irrespective of where you are writing the code, Worksheet code,
ThisWorkBook code or, Module code.

Sharad


"Peter Chatterton" wrote in message
om...
Hope this isn't too terse, but "my macro can't form a Range on an
inactive Worksheet" seems to cover it. It's Excel 2002 on XP. Hope
you can help, I'm baffled. Peter.

It's much too terse. You should have included the code you're trying to
use.

One way to "form a Range":

Dim rMyRange As Range
Set rMyRange = Sheets("Sheet2").Range("A1:J10")


but I have no idea whether that's what you mean...


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(Peter Chatterton) wrote:

Hope this isn't too terse, but "my macro can't form a Range on an
inactive Worksheet" seems to cover it. It's Excel 2002 on XP. Hope
you can help, I'm baffled. Peter.

I don't understand what you mean by "form a Range". I'm guessing you mean
reference a range in a variable?

This example will error because Sheet2 is not active.
Uncomment the commented line to fix - perhaps this is your issue?

Sub test()
Dim rng As Range

Worksheets("Sheet1").Activate
Set rng = Worksheets("Sheet2").Range("A1:E5")

' Worksheets("Sheet2").Activate
rng.Select
End Sub


--
Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel


"Peter Chatterton" wrote in message
om...
Hope this isn't too terse, but "my macro can't form a Range on an
inactive Worksheet" seems to cover it. It's Excel 2002 on XP. Hope
you can help, I'm baffled. Peter.

Thanks Mangesh and JE