XL: Error Using Array with Range Method

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for Windows NT, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, you can store cell addresses in a user-defined array. If you attempt to select the entire array of cells 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 in which 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

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

   Option Base 1

   Sub ArrayExample()
       Dim myArray()
       For counter = 1 To 10
           ReDim Preserve myArray(counter)
           myArray(counter) = Cells(counter, 1)
       Next counter
       Range(myArray).Select
   End Sub

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

WORKAROUND

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   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

REFERENCES

For more information about Arrays or Ranges in Microsoft Excel 5.0, click the Search button in Help and type:

   Array

   -or-

   Range object

REFERENCES

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications