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Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004
Hello,
I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. I am getting Error 1004. I have two workbooks. Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. I want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. After opening Workbook2, I make it invisible. In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2. The following code causes error 1004: dim ws as worksheet set ws = workbook2.sheets(1) ws.activate ws.Cells.Select ***Error happens here Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am activating the worksheet in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. Does anyone know why I am getting the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am totally stuck here. Thanks, Scott |
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Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004
I don't think you can select cells in a hidden workbook.
If the workbook is hidden, why do you need to select the cells: what comes after that ? Tim "Scott" wrote in message ... Hello, I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. I am getting Error 1004. I have two workbooks. Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. I want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. After opening Workbook2, I make it invisible. In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2. The following code causes error 1004: dim ws as worksheet set ws = workbook2.sheets(1) ws.activate ws.Cells.Select ***Error happens here Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am activating the worksheet in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. Does anyone know why I am getting the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am totally stuck here. Thanks, Scott |
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Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004
If the activate works, then just:
Cells.Select -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200908 "Scott" wrote: Hello, I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. I am getting Error 1004. I have two workbooks. Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. I want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. After opening Workbook2, I make it invisible. In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2. The following code causes error 1004: dim ws as worksheet set ws = workbook2.sheets(1) ws.activate ws.Cells.Select ***Error happens here Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am activating the worksheet in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. Does anyone know why I am getting the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am totally stuck here. Thanks, Scott . |
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Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004
Tim,
I am opening a lot of workbooks and modifying them. I have them hidden to speed up the time, so excel is not switching back and forth between all the windows. Even though they are not visible, I want to process them. Scott On Oct 24, 3:50*pm, "Tim Williams" wrote: I don't think you can select cells in a hidden workbook. If the workbook is hidden, why do you need to select the cells: what comes after that ? Tim "Scott" wrote in message ... Hello, I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. *I am getting Error 1004. I have two workbooks. *Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. *I want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. *After opening Workbook2, I make it invisible. In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2. The following code causes error 1004: dim ws as worksheet set ws = workbook2.sheets(1) ws.activate ws.Cells.Select * ***Error happens here Any help would be greatly appreciated. *I am activating the worksheet in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. *Does anyone know why I am getting the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. *I am totally stuck here. Thanks, Scott |
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Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004
For some reason I don't think activate is working.
If I print the value of ActiveWorksheet before the activate statement and after the activate statement, I get the same value. And, the value is the name of the worksheet that has the vba code. Not the sheet that I am trying to activate. If I just do Cells.select it works. Well, it selects all the cells of the workbook/worksheet running the code, not of the worksheet i am trying to activate On Oct 24, 4:29*pm, Gary''s Student wrote: If the activate works, then just: Cells.Select * -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200908 "Scott" wrote: Hello, I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. *I am getting Error 1004. I have two workbooks. *Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. *I want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. *After opening Workbook2, I make it invisible. In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2. The following code causes error 1004: dim ws as worksheet set ws = workbook2.sheets(1) ws.activate ws.Cells.Select * ***Error happens here Any help would be greatly appreciated. *I am activating the worksheet in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. *Does anyone know why I am getting the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. *I am totally stuck here. Thanks, Scott . |
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Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004
You could just turn off screenupdating instead.
I don't think you can activate a hidden work book. Try this in the immediate window: workbooks("PERSONAL.XLS").Activate 'or some hidden workbook ? activeworkbook.Name Book1 'not the one you want... Tim "Scott" wrote in message ... Tim, I am opening a lot of workbooks and modifying them. I have them hidden to speed up the time, so excel is not switching back and forth between all the windows. Even though they are not visible, I want to process them. Scott On Oct 24, 3:50 pm, "Tim Williams" wrote: I don't think you can select cells in a hidden workbook. If the workbook is hidden, why do you need to select the cells: what comes after that ? Tim "Scott" wrote in message ... Hello, I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. I am getting Error 1004. I have two workbooks. Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. I want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. After opening Workbook2, I make it invisible. In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2. The following code causes error 1004: dim ws as worksheet set ws = workbook2.sheets(1) ws.activate ws.Cells.Select ***Error happens here Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am activating the worksheet in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. Does anyone know why I am getting the error? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am totally stuck here. Thanks, Scott |
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