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The document discusses properties of the Range object in Excel VBA. It notes that some properties like Column and Count are read-only, as they return information about the range but cannot be modified. It also gives an example of using the Font property to make cell contents bold. There are a large number (93) of different properties for the Range object, making VBA difficult for beginners. For custom functions, only a limited set of Range object properties can be used, and they can only be read not set.

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VBA Properties

The document discusses properties of the Range object in Excel VBA. It notes that some properties like Column and Count are read-only, as they return information about the range but cannot be modified. It also gives an example of using the Font property to make cell contents bold. There are a large number (93) of different properties for the Range object, making VBA difficult for beginners. For custom functions, only a limited set of Range object properties can be used, and they can only be read not set.

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EXCEL: NUMERICAL METHODS

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Some properties, such as Column or Count, are read-only. The Column


property of a Range object is the column number of the leftmost cell in the
specified range; it should be clear that this property can be read, but not changed.
The Count property of a Range object is the number of cells in the range; again,
it can be read, but not changed.
Properties can also modify properties. The following example
Range("Al").Font.Bold= True

makes the contents of cell A1 bold.


There is a large and confusing number of properties, a different list for each
object. For example, as of this writing (Excel 2003), the list of properties
pertaining to the Range object contains 93 entries:
Addlndent
Address
AddressLocal
AllowEdit
Application
Areas
Borders
Cells
Characters
Column
Columns
ColumnWidth
Comment
Count
Creator
CurrentArray
CurrentRegion
Dependents
DirectDependents
Directprecedents
End
Entirecolumn
EntireRow
Errors

Font
FormatConditions
Formula
FormulaArray
FormulaHidden
FormulaLabel
FormulaLocal
FormulaRlCl
FormulaRlCl Local
HasArray
HasFormula
Height
Hidden
HorizontalAlignment
Hyperlinks
ID
IndentLevel
Interior
Item
Left
ListHeaderRows
Listobject
LocationlnTable
Locked

MergeArea
Mergecells
Name
Next
NumberFormat
NumberFormatLocal
Offset
Orientation
OutlineLevel
PageBreak
Parent
Phonetic
Phonetics
Pivotcell
PivotField
Pivotltem
PivotTable
Precedents
PrefixCharacter
Previous
QueryTable
Range
ReadingOrder
Resize

Row
RowHeight
Rows
ShowDetail
ShrinkToFit
SmartTags
SoundNote
Style
Summary
Text
TOP
UseStandardHeight
UseStandardWidth
Validation
Value
Value2
VerticalAlignment
Width
Worksheet
WrapText
XPath

This large number of properties, just for the Range object, is what makes
VBA so difficult for the beginner. You must find out what properties are
associated with a particular object, and what you can do with them. For our
purposes (creating custom functions), only a limited number of these properties
of the Range object can be used. Some of the properties of the Range object
that can be used in a custom function are listed in Table 2-1. Note that, when
used in a custom function, these properties can only be read, not set.

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