Re: Selection.Cells vs Range reference - strange behaviour (using

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Bob

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"Tara H" <TaraH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ah, I see! I'll have to make a note of all this - I've only recently had
to
use subs that take parameters, but I'm sure I'll need to refer to this
again
and again.

Thanks,
Tara

P.S. Sorry I forgot earlier to mark the answer!

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Tara,

The one I forgot to mention which may be more familiar to you is to call
the
procedure, then you use parentheses

Call format_over_105(Range("C1").Cells)


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Bob

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"Tara H" <TaraH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Bob.

I included the format_over_105 code in my original post - it expects a
Range, but as I said, my background is in Java, so I am used to putting
parentheses to indicate the parameters to be passed.

I'll bear this in mind for the future. Many thanks again for your
help.

Tara H

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

As I said, I had to make assumptions as I don't know what
format_over_105
does, but it would seem that it expects a cell(s) reference.
Range("C1").Cells is such, but by enclosing it within parentheses, the
expression was being evaluated before being passed to the routine,
hence
it
was a value being passed, not the cell(s) reference. The brackets have
a
purpose in a call statement, they are not just ways to organise the
statements.

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Bob

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"Tara H" <TaraH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Bob,

Thanks - your first example was exactly what I needed! Coming from
a
Java
background that seems strange to me - simply removing the brackets
from
around 'Range("C1").Cells' to make it work.

Would you mind giving me a quick explanation of what's going on
there
so I
know for next time?

Many Thanks,
Tara H

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Depending upon the function format_over_105 try

Range("C1").Value = "> 105%"
format_over_105 Range("C1").Cells

or

Range("C1").Value = "> 105%"
format_over_105 (Range("C1").Value)


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Bob

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"Tara H" <TaraH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In accordance with good practice, I'm trying to rewrite sections
of
my
code
that rely on first selecting cells to remove the selection part.
Generally
I've had good success with this, but the following has me totally
stumped.

I have a series of subs for formatting text along the lines of
the
example
below:

Sub format_over_105(myRange As Range)

With myRange.Font
.ThemeColor = xlThemeColorDark1
.TintAndShade = 0
End With
With myRange.Interior
.Pattern = xlSolid
.PatternColorIndex = xlAutomatic
.Color = 255
.TintAndShade = 0
.PatternTintAndShade = 0
End With
End Sub

The original code used the formatter like this:
Range("C1").Select
Selection.Value = "> 105%"
format_over_105 (Selection.Cells)

It seemed that I should be able to change this to:
Range("C1").Value = "> 105%"
format_over_105 (Range("C1").Cells)

However, the second example gives the error 'Object Required' on
the
second
line, and when I hold the mouse over the line that gave the
error,
it
tells
me
Range("C2").Cells = "Delivery > 105%". I have tried using just
Range("C1"),
but that gives the same error.

I would have thought that the first and second example were
equivalent -
can
anyone explain to me why the first works and the second doesn't?

The purpose of the above is simply to provide a 'key' - the
formatting
of
the actual rows according to their values works fine with
For Each myRow In Active***.UsedRange.Rows
....
format_over_105 (myRow.Cells)

Many thanks in advance,
Tara H











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