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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

workbook.ActiveSheet

Synopsis

Returns a reference to the worksheet, chart sheet, Excel 4.0 macro sheet, or Excel 5.0 dialog sheet that currently has focus. In most cases, ActiveSheet returns a reference to the active worksheet, but it is important to make sure that it is a worksheet before proceeding in code. For example, the following code checks whether ActiveSheet is a worksheet before performing some task:

Dim ws As Worksheet
If TypeName(ActiveSheet) = "Worksheet" Then
    Set ws = ActiveSheet
    ws.Cells(1, 1) = 42
    ' Some other code...
Else
    MsgBox "Please activate a worksheet."
End If
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