ExcelBanter - Error 1004

A common problem is when you select ranges. You can only select ranges on the
activesheet.

Another common problem is when you don't fully qualify the range. If your code
is behind a worksheet, then any unqualified range belongs to the worksheet that
owns the code--not the activesheet.

So:

Worksheets("Sheet99").select
range("a1").select

May work in a general module--but will fail if the code is behind a worksheet
named Sheet1 (not sheet99).

worksheets("sheet99").select
worksheets("sheet99").range("a1").select
will work in both cases

with worksheets("sheet99")
.select
.range("a1").select
end with
will also work.

But there are very few things that need to be selected in your code.

Worksheets("Sheet99").range("a1").value = "hi there"
will work without the select's.

clara wrote:

Hi all,

I am doing programming based on others' work. Many times, after I inserted
some code, I got runtime error 1004 and there are many reasons explaining it
such as can not use a method of a object (e.g. range). THese problem
statements are innocent before. Sometime, I change the inserted code position
or change some states like who is active sheet and errors gone. My question
what is the real reason and how can I prevent it or make capsule for my code?

Clara
thank you so much for your help

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Dave Peterson