XL: Row and Column Range Converted to Two-Dimensional Array

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 96, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

Page 127 of the Microsoft Excel 5.0 "Visual Basic User's Guide," states that a Microsoft Excel horizontal or vertical array is converted to a one- dimensional Visual Basic array. This information is not entirely correct. When you define a variable in a procedure based on a row or a column of cells on a worksheet, the variable is converted to a two- dimensional array.

Note that the examples used on page 127 of the Microsoft Excel 5.0 "Visual Basic User's Guide" ARE correct. A horizontal or vertical array such as {"Apples",7,19} or {"Apples";7;19} is converted to a one- dimensional Visual Basic array.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Excel, if you dimension a row or column of cells on a worksheet as an array in a Visual Basic module, and you return a value in the array as an element of a one-dimensional array, you receive the following error message:

   Run-time error '9':

   Subscript out of range

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Sample Visual Basic Macro

   Sub ArrayExample()
     ' Dimension variable Column_Variable as Variant type
     Dim Column_Variable as Variant
     ' Assign variable Column_Variable to named range Vert
     ' Vert contains the vertical range A1:A3
     Column_Variable = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("Vert")
     ' Return value in A2, element in second row, first column in array
     MsgBox Column_Variable(2, 1)
   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about Creating Arrays, click the Search button in the Visual Basic Reference help and type:

    arrays