Thanks for the reference. Thanks all for your inputs. I know that something
needs to be selected. I discovered sht.Cells.Clear or
sht.Cells.ClearContents without having to select an entire sheet. But now I
can take it to areas with Chip Peason's method.

Thanks

"David McRitchie" wrote:

Hi Rich,
See Chip Pearson's page
http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/unselect.htm
macros for:
Unselecting A Cell Or Area -- unselectactivecell
UnSelecting An Area -- UnSelectActiveArea:

You aren't trying to deselect all selections, are you?

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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Rich" wrote in message
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Hello,

If I programmatically select a range of cells -- Range("A1:D5").Select --
how can I deselect the selection without selecting another cell? I
vaguely
recall something about range("A1:D5").copypaste = false. But I don't see
that anywhere in the dropdown. Any suggestions appreciated.