Help with selecting all cells in a sheet -- Error 1004

[Scott]

Hello,

I am having problems selecting all the cells of a worksheet. I am
getting Error 1004.

I have two workbooks. Workbook1 is where the VBA code is running. I
want to select all the cells of the first sheet of Workbook2. After
opening Workbook2, I make it invisible.

In the vba code I call a subroutine and pass it Workbook2.

The following code causes error 1004:

dim ws as worksheet

set ws = workbook2.sheets(1)
ws.activate
ws.Cells.Select ***Error happens here

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am activating the worksheet
in Workbook2 and then trying to select the cells. Does anyone know
why I am getting the error?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am totally stuck here.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Tim Williams]

I don't think you can select cells in a hidden workbook.
If the workbook is hidden, why do you need to select the cells: what comes
after that ?

Tim

 

[Gary''s Student]

If the activate works, then just:
Cells.Select

 

[Scott]

Tim,

I am opening a lot of workbooks and modifying them. I have them
hidden to speed up the time, so excel is not switching back and forth
between all the windows. Even though they are not visible, I want to
process them.

Scott

 

[Scott]

For some reason I don't think activate is working.

If I print the value of ActiveWorksheet before the activate statement
and after the activate statement, I get the same value. And, the
value is the name of the worksheet that has the vba code. Not the
sheet that I am trying to activate.

If I just do Cells.select it works. Well, it selects all the cells of
the workbook/worksheet running the code, not of the worksheet i am
trying to activate

 

[Tim Williams]

You could just turn off screenupdating instead.
I don't think you can activate a hidden work book.

Try this in the immediate window:

workbooks("PERSONAL.XLS").Activate 'or some hidden workbook
? activeworkbook.Name
Book1 'not the one you want...

Tim


Tim,

I am opening a lot of workbooks and modifying them. I have them
hidden to speed up the time, so excel is not switching back and forth
between all the windows. Even though they are not visible, I want to
process them.

Scott