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Part III: Programming Concepts
The Cells property takes two arguments: row and column. Both of these arguments
are numbers, even though we usually refer to columns by using letters.
For example, the following expression refers to cell C2 on Sheet2:
Worksheets(“Sheet2”).Cells(2, 3)
You can also use the Cells property to refer to a multi-cell range. The following
example demonstrates the syntax you use:
Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 10))
This expression refers to a 100-cell range that extends from cell A1 (row 1,
column 1) to cell J10 (row 10, column 10).
The following statements both produce the same result; they enter a value of
99 into a 10-by-10 range of cells. More specifically, these statements set the
Value property of the Range object:
Range(“A1:J10”).Value = 99
Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 10)).Value = 99
The advantage of using the Cells method to refer to ranges becomes apparent
when you use variables rather than actual numbers as the Cells arguments.
And things really start to click when you understand looping, which I cover in
Chapter 10.
The Offset property
The Offset property provides another handy means for referring to ranges.
This property, which operates on a Range object and returns another Range
object, lets you refer to a cell that is a particular number of rows and columns
away from another cell.
Like the Cells property, the Offset property takes two arguments. The first
argument represents the number of rows to offset; the second represents the
number of columns to offset.
The following expression refers to a cell one row below cell A1 and two columns
to the right of cell A1. In other words, this refers to the cell commonly
known as C2:
Range(“A1”).Offset(1, 2)