Selecting Noncontinuous Ranges by Name in an Excel Macro

 Last reviewed: November 2, 1994
Article ID: Q49425
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0
  • Microsoft Excel for OS/2 versions 2.2, 2.21, 3.0

SUMMARY

To select more than one range in a macro, the ranges can be named and then used in a SELECT statement, as in the following sample macro: 

   =ACTIVATE("Sheet2")
   =SELECT("area1,area2,area3")
The cells on Sheet2 have been defined as follows: 

   Cell Range    Defined As
   ----------    ----------

   A1 to C3      area1
   D5 to G7      area2
   A9 to G12     area3
The first cell in the first named range is the active cell. In the above example, it is A1.

KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory:

Additional words: 5.00 2.00 2.0 2.01 2.1 2.10 2.2 2.21 2.20 3.00
3.0 4.00 4.0

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Last reviewed: November 2, 1994
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