Hi All,
Ok I am using the Range command to select multiple columns like this..

Range("A:A,B:B,C:C,F:F,AB:AB,AC:AC,BF:BF").Select

The problem I am having is my actual range of columns includes many more
columns that the example above.

Is there a maximum to how man columns you can include to select with the
range command ?
because the range command fails when I get to man coluns listed like say 200
or more.
Is there another way to accomplish this ? because all I realy want to do is
have vba do the same thing as if I manual selected up to 200 columns with the
mouse while holding down the Ctrl button.

If you are copying certain columns to paste in another workbook you might
consider hiding the unwanted columns.

Columns("D:E").visible = false
Columns("G:AA").visible=false

etc.

then you can have Range("A1:DF3000").select
Selection.copy

The only columns copied will be the visible ones.

Jim


"Dan Thompson" wrote:

Hi All,
Ok I am using the Range command to select multiple columns like this..

Range("A:A,B:B,C:C,F:F,AB:AB,AC:AC,BF:BF").Select

The problem I am having is my actual range of columns includes many more
columns that the example above.

Is there a maximum to how man columns you can include to select with the
range command ?
because the range command fails when I get to man coluns listed like say 200
or more.
Is there another way to accomplish this ? because all I realy want to do is
have vba do the same thing as if I manual selected up to 200 columns with the
mouse while holding down the Ctrl button.

Thanks for the help Jim, however allthough the "visible=false" was a good Idea
unfortunitly it will not work for what I need to do.

You see basicly what I am doing is I have a working code that takes chart
series values and locates them in there corisponding spread sheet. The
problem is that I want to delete all of irrelavent data columns in the same
spread sheet, thus only leaving the cloumns that are linked to data series on
my chart.
however when I use the Range("A:A,B:B,F:F.... ect ..ect ) command it doesn't
work once I get too man columns listed I think I can get up to "AF" and than
the range command seems to run out of gas and goes dumb (Excel VBA just
ignors that line all together).

I thought of trying to do this with using the column command but havent
been able to get that to work etiher.

Any more thoughts Anyone ?


"Jim Jackson" wrote:

If you are copying certain columns to paste in another workbook you might
consider hiding the unwanted columns.

Columns("D:E").visible = false
Columns("G:AA").visible=false

etc.

then you can have Range("A1:DF3000").select
Selection.copy

The only columns copied will be the visible ones.

Jim


"Dan Thompson" wrote:

Hi All,
Ok I am using the Range command to select multiple columns like this..

Range("A:A,B:B,C:C,F:F,AB:AB,AC:AC,BF:BF").Select

The problem I am having is my actual range of columns includes many more
columns that the example above.

Is there a maximum to how man columns you can include to select with the
range command ?
because the range command fails when I get to man coluns listed like say 200
or more.
Is there another way to accomplish this ? because all I realy want to do is
have vba do the same thing as if I manual selected up to 200 columns with the
mouse while holding down the Ctrl button.