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In VBA, the active cell is a property that represents the cell that is active at the moment. When you select a cell or navigate to a cell and that green box covers that cell you can use ACTIVECELL property to refer to that cell in a VBA code. There are properties and methods that come with it.

Use the Active Cell Property

Type the keyword “ActiveCell”.
Type a dot (.) to get the list properties and methods.
Select the property or method that you want to use.
Run the code to perform the activity to the active cell.

Important Points

When you use the active cell property VBA refers to the active cell of the active workbook’s active sheet’s, irrespective of how many workbooks are open at the moment.
ActiveCell is ultimately a cell that comes with all the properties and methods that a normal cell comes with.

Activate a Cell from the Selected Range

To activate a cell using a VBA code there are two ways that you can use one “Activate” method and “Select” method.

Sub vba_activecell()

'select and entire range
Range("A1:A10").Select

'select the cell A3 from the selected range
Range("A3").Activate

'clears everything from the active cell
ActiveCell.Clear

End Sub

The above code, first of all, selects the range A1:A10 and then activates the cell A3 out of that and in the end, clears everything from the active cell i.e., A3.

Return Value from the Active Cell

The following code returns the value from the active cell using a message box.

MsgBox ActiveCell.Value

Or if you want to get the value from the active cell and paste it into a separate cell.

Range("A1") = ActiveCell.Value

Set Active Cell to a Variable

You can also set the active cell to the variable, just like the following example.

Sub vba_activecell()

'declares the variable as range
Dim myCell As Range

'set active cell to the variable
Set myCell = ActiveCell

'enter value in the active cell
myCell.Value = Done

End Sub

Get Row and Column Number of the ActiveCell

With the active cell there comes a row and column property that you can use to get the row and column number of the active cell.

MsgBox ActiveCell.Row

MsgBox ActiveCell.Column

Get Active Cell’s Address

You can use the address property to get the address of the active cell.

MsgBox ActiveCell.Address

When you run the above code, it shows you a message box with the cell address of the active cell of the active workbook’s active sheet (as I mentioned earlier).

Move from the Active Cell using Offset

With offset property, you can move to a cell which is a several rows and columns away from the active cell.

ActiveCell.Offset(2, 2).Select

Select a Range from the Active Cell

And you can also select a range starting from the active cell.

Range(ActiveCell.Offset(1, 1), ActiveCell.Offset(5, 5)).Select

Различие методов Activate и Select

Выберем программно диапазон «B2:E6» методом Select и выведем адрес активной ячейки:

Sub Primer2()

Range(«B2:E6»).Select

ActiveCell = ActiveCell.Address

End Sub

Результат:

Как видим, активной стала первая ячейка выбранного диапазона, расположенная слева вверху. Если мы поменяем местами границы диапазона (Range("E6:B2").Select), все равно активной станет та же первая ячейка.

Теперь сделаем активной ячейку «D4», расположенную внутри выделенного диапазона, с помощью метода Activate:

Sub Primer3()

Range(«E6:B2»).Select

Range(«D4»).Activate

ActiveCell = ActiveCell.Address

End Sub

Результат:

Как видим, выбранный диапазон не изменился, а активная ячейка переместилась из первой ячейки выделенного диапазона в ячейку «D4».

И, наконец, выберем ячейку «D4», расположенную внутри выделенного диапазона, с помощью метода Select:

Sub Primer4()

Range(«E6:B2»).Select

Range(«D4»).Select

ActiveCell = ActiveCell.Address

End Sub

Результат:

Как видим, ранее выбранный диапазон был заменен новым, состоящим из одной ячейки «D4». Такой же результат будет и при активации ячейки, расположенной вне выбранного диапазона, методом Activate:

Sub Primer5()

Range(«E6:B2»).Select

Range(«A3»).Activate

ActiveCell = ActiveCell.Address

End Sub

Аналогично ведут себя методы Activate и Select при работе с выделенной группой рабочих листов.

Свойство Application.ActiveCell используется для обращения к одной ячейке, являющейся активной, а для работы со всеми ячейками выделенного диапазона используется свойство Application.Selection.

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Selecting and Activating Cells
Using the Select Method and the Selection Property
Selecting Cells on the Active Worksheet
Activating a Cell Within a Selection
Support and feedback
CELL function
Syntax
info_type values
CELL format codes
Excel VBA Ranges and Cells
Ranges and Cells in VBA
Cell Address
A1 Notation
R1C1 Notation
Range of Cells
A1 Notation
R1C1 Notation
Writing to Cells
Reading from Cells
Non Contiguous Cells
VBA Coding Made Easy
Intersection of Cells
Offset from a Cell or Range
Offset Syntax
Offset from a cell
Offset from a Range
Setting Reference to a Range
Resize a Range
Resize Syntax
OFFSET vs Resize
All Cells in Sheet
UsedRange
CurrentRegion
Range Properties
Last Cell in Sheet
Last Used Row Number in a Column
Last Used Column Number in a Row
Cell Properties
Common Properties
Cell Font
Copy and Paste
Paste All
Paste Special
AutoFit Contents
More Range Examples
For Each
Range Address
Range to Array
Array to Range
Sum Range
Count Range
VBA Code Examples Add-in

Selecting and Activating Cells

In Microsoft Excel, you usually select a cell or cells and then perform an action, such as formatting the cells or entering values in them. In Visual Basic, it is usually not necessary to select cells before modifying them.

For example, to enter a formula in cell D6 using Visual Basic, you don’t need to select the range D6. Just return the Range object for that cell, and then set the Formula property to the formula you want, as shown in the following example.

For more information and examples of using other methods to control cells without selecting them, see How to: Reference Cells and Ranges.

Using the Select Method and the Selection Property

The Select method activates sheets and objects on sheets; the Selection property returns an object that represents the current selection on the active sheet in the active workbook. Before you can use the Selection property successfully, you must activate a workbook, activate or select a sheet, and then select a range (or other object) using the Select method.

The macro recorder will often create a macro that uses the Select method and the Selection property. The following Sub procedure was created using the macro recorder, and it shows how Select and Selection work together.

The following example performs the same task without activating or selecting the worksheet or cells.

Selecting Cells on the Active Worksheet

If you use the Select method to select cells, be aware that Select works only on the active worksheet. If you run your Sub procedure from the module, the Select method will fail unless your procedure activates the worksheet before using the Select method on a range of cells. For example, the following procedure copies a row from Sheet1 to Sheet2 in the active workbook.

Activating a Cell Within a Selection

Use the Activate method to activate a cell within a selection. There can be only one active cell, even when a range of cells is selected. The following procedure selects a range and then activates a cell within the range without changing the selection.

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CELL function

The CELL function returns information about the formatting, location, or contents of a cell. For example, if you want to verify that a cell contains a numeric value instead of text before you perform a calculation on it, you can use the following formula:

This formula calculates A1*2 only if cell A1 contains a numeric value, and returns 0 if A1 contains text or is blank.

Note: Formulas that use CELL have language-specific argument values and will return errors if calculated using a different language version of Excel. For example, if you create a formula containing CELL while using the Czech version of Excel, that formula will return an error if the workbook is opened using the French version. If it is important for others to open your workbook using different language versions of Excel, consider either using alternative functions or allowing others to save local copies in which they revise the CELL arguments to match their language.

Syntax

The CELL function syntax has the following arguments:

A text value that specifies what type of cell information you want to return. The following list shows the possible values of the Info_type argument and the corresponding results.

The cell that you want information about.

If omitted, the information specified in the info_type argument is returned for cell selected at the time of calculation. If the reference argument is a range of cells, the CELL function returns the information for active cell in the selected range.

Important: Although technically reference is optional, including it in your formula is encouraged, unless you understand the effect its absence has on your formula result and want that effect in place. Omitting the reference argument does not reliably produce information about a specific cell, for the following reasons:

In automatic calculation mode, when a cell is modified by a user the calculation may be triggered before or after the selection has progressed, depending on the platform you’re using for Excel. For example, Excel for Windows currently triggers calculation before selection changes, but Excel for the web triggers it afterward.

When Co-Authoring with another user who makes an edit, this function will report your active cell rather than the editor’s.

Any recalculation, for instance pressing F9, will cause the function to return a new result even though no cell edit has occurred.

info_type values

The following list describes the text values that can be used for the info_type argument. These values must be entered in the CELL function with quotes (» «).

Reference of the first cell in reference, as text.

Column number of the cell in reference.

The value 1 if the cell is formatted in color for negative values; otherwise returns 0 (zero).