XL2000: Error When You Use Array with Range Method (213326)

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 2000, you can store cell addresses in a user-defined array. If you attempt to select the entire array of cells by using the Range method in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code, you may receive one of the following error messages:

Run-time error '1004':
Range method of Application class failed

-or-

Run-time error '1004':
Method 'Range' of object '_Global' failed

CAUSE

The way that cell addresses are stored in an array may cause the Range method to fail when you select the entire array of cells. To illustrate this, the following array (named myArray) loads an array of cell addresses and allows the Range method to select the entire range:

Dim myArray
myArray = Selection.Address
Range(myArray).Select

By using this statement, you store the selected range to the myArray array in the following format:

myArray("A1, A3, A5, A7")

However, the following Visual Basic for Applications method stores the selected cells to the array. Selecting the array results in one of the macro error message described in the "Symptoms" section.

Option Base 1

Sub ArrayExample()
   Dim myArray()
   For counter = 1 To 1
      ReDim Preserve myArray(counter)
      myArray(counter) = Cells(counter, 1)
   Next counter
   Range(myArray).Select
End Sub

By using this looping procedure, you store the selected range to the myArray array in the following format:

myArray("A1", "A3", "A5", "A7")

This format causes the Range method to fail when you select the entire array of addresses.

WORKAROUND

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To work around this issue, use a range object instead of an array to allow the entire array to be selected, as in the following example:

Dim dataRange
   Set dataRange = Nothing
   For Each x In Selection
      If dataRange Is Nothing Then
         Set dataRange = x
      Else
         Set dataRange = Union(dataRange, x)
      End If
   Next x
dataRange.Select

XL2000: Error When You Use Array with Range Method (213326)

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