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Microsoft 365 Excel VBA Programming For Dummies, 7th Edition
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Microsoft 365 Excel VBA Programming For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Dick Kusleika
February 2025
Beginner
448 pages
9h 32m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Microsoft 365 Excel VBA Programming For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 9

Working with Range Objects

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Finding out why Range objects are important

Bullet Understanding the various ways of referring to ranges

Bullet Discovering some of the most useful Range object properties

Bullet Uncovering some of the most useful Range object methods

This chapter digs a bit deeper into Excel’s dungeons and takes a closer look at Range objects. Excel is all about cells, and the Range object is a container for cells. Much of the programming work you do in Excel focuses on Range objects, such as assigning values to cells, putting formulas in cells, and formatting cells.

Referring to Range Objects

A Range object represents one or more cells contained in a Worksheet object. Range objects, like all other objects, have properties (which you can examine and sometimes change) and methods (which perform actions on the object).

A Range object can be as small as a single cell (for example, B4) or as large as every one of the 17,179,869,184 cells in a worksheet (A1:XFD1048576).

When you refer to a Range object, the address is always surrounded by double quotes, like this: ...

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