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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

1. Type the keyword “ActiveCell”.
2. Type a dot (.) to get the list properties and methods.
3. Select the property or method that you want to use.
4. 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

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‘Active Cell’ is an important concept in Excel.

While you don’t have to care about the active cell when you’re working on the worksheet, it’s an important thing to know when working with VBA in Excel.

Proper use of the active cell in Excel VBA can help you write better code.

In this tutorial, I first explained what is an active cell, and then show you some examples of how to use an active cell in VBA in Excel.

What is an Active Cell in Excel?

An active cell, as the name suggests, is the currently active cell that will be used when you enter any text or formula in Excel.

For example, if I select cell B5, then B5 becomes my active cell in the worksheet. Now if I type anything from my keyboard, it would be entered in this cell, because this is the active cell.

While this may sound obvious, here is something not that obvious – when you select a range of cells, even then you would only have one active cell.

For example, if I select A1:B10, although I have 20 selected cells, I still have only one single active cell.

So now, if I start typing any text or formula, it would only be entered in the active cell.

You can identify the active cell by looking at the difference in color between the active cell in all the other cells in the selection. You would notice that the active cell is of a lighter shade than the other selected cells.

Another quick way to know which cell is the active cell is by looking at the Name box (the field that is next to the formula bar). The cell reference of the active cell would be shown in the Name Box.

Using Active Cell in VBA in Excel

Now that I’ve explained what is an active cell in a worksheet in excel, let’s learn how an Active cell can be used in Excel VBA.

Active Cell Properties and Methods

In VBA, you can use an active cell in two ways:

1. To get the information about it (these are called Properties)
2. To perform some action on it (these are called Methods)

Here is how you can access all the properties and methods of an active cell in VBA:

1. Open a Module in Excel VBA editor
2. Type the phrase ‘ActiveCell’
3. Enter a dot (.) after the word ActiveCell

As soon as you do this, you would notice that a set of properties and methods appear as a drop-down (this is called an IntelliSense in Excel VBA).

In the drop-down that appears, you would see two types of options – the one that has a green icon and the one that has a gray icon (with a hand).

The one with the grey icons is the Properties, and the one with the green icons is the Methods.

Some examples of Methods would include Activate, AddComment, Cut, Delete, Clear, etc. As you can notice, these are actions that can be performed on the active cell.

Some examples of Properties would include Address, Font, HasFormula, Interior.Color. All these are properties of the active cell that gives you information about that active cell.

For example, you can use this to get the cell address of the active cell or change the interior cell color of the cell.

Now let’s have a few simple VBA code examples that you can use in your day-to-day work when working with active cell in excel

Making a Cell the Active Cell

To make any cell the active cell, you first have to make sure that it is selected.

If you only have one single cell selected, it by default becomes the active cell.

Below is the VBA code to make cell B5 the active cell:

Sub Change_ActiveCell()
Range("B5").Activate
End Sub

In the above VBA code, I have first specified the cell address of the cell that I want to activate (which is B5), and then I use the activate method to make it the active cell.

When you only want to make one single cell the active cell, you can also use the select method (code below):

Sub Change_ActiveCell()
Range("B5").Select
End Sub

As I mentioned earlier, you can only have one active cell even if you have a range of cell selected.

With VBA, you can first select a range of cells, and then make any one of those cells the active cell.

Below the VBA code that would first select range A1:B10, and then make cell A5 the active cell:

Sub Select_ActiveCell()
Range("A1:B10").Select
Range("A5").Activate
End Sub

Clear the Active Cell

Below is the VBA code that would first make cell A5 the active cell, and then clear its content (cell content as well any formatting applied to the cell).

Sub Clear_ActiveCell()
Range("A5").Activate
ActiveCell.Clear
End Sub

Note that I have shown you the above code just to show you how the clear method work with active cell. In VBA, you don’t need to always select or activate the cell to perform any method on it.

For example, you can also clear the content of cell A5 using the below code:

Sub Clear_CellB5()
Range("A5").Clear
End Sub

Get the Value from the Active Cell

Below the VBA code that could show you a message box displaying the value in the active cell:

Sub Show_ActiveCell_Value()
MsgBox ActiveCell.Value
End Sub

Similarly, you can also use a simple VBA code to show the cell address of the active cell (code below):

Sub Show_ActiveCell_Address()
MsgBox ActiveCell.Address
End Sub

The above code would show the address in absolute reference (such as $A$5).

Formating the Active Cell (Color, Border)

Below the VBA code that would make the active cell blue in color and change the font color to white.

Sub Format_ActiveCell()

'Makes the active cell blue in color
ActiveCell.Interior.Color = vbBlue

'Changes the cell font color to white
ActiveCell.Font.Color = vbWhite

End Sub

Note that I have used the inbuilt color constant (vbBlue and vbWhite). You can also use the RGB constant. For example, instead of vbRed, you can use RGB(255, 0, 0)

Offsetting From the Active Cell

VBA in Excel allows you to refer to cells relative to the position of the active cell (this is called offsetting).

For example, if my active cell is cell A1, I can use the offset property on the active cell and refer to the cell below it by specifying the position of that row corresponding to the active cell.

Let me show you an example.

Sub Offset_From_ActiveCell()

'Make cell A1 the Active Cell
Range("A1").Activate

'Goes One cell Below the Actice Cell and Enters the text Test in it
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Value = "Test"

End Sub

The above code first activate cell A1 and makes it the active cell. It then uses the offset property on the active cell, to refer to the cell which is one row below it.

And in the same line in the code, I have also assigned a value “Test” to that cell which is one row below the active cell.

Let me show you another example where offsetting from the active cell could be used in a practical scenario.

Below I have a VBA code that first activates cell A1, and then uses the offset property to cover 10 cells below the active cell and enter numbers from 1 to 10 in cell A1:A10.

Sub Offset_From_ActiveCell()

'Activates cell A1
Range("A1").Activate

'Loop to go through 10 cells below the active cell and enter sequential numbers in it
For i = 1 To 10
    ActiveCell.Offset(i - 1, 0).Value = i
Next i

End Sub

The above code uses a For Next loop that runs 10 times (and each time the value of the variable ‘i’ increases by 1). And since I am also using ‘i’ in the offset property, it keeps going one cell down with each iteration.

Get ActiveCell Row or Column Number

Below the VBA code that will show you the row number of the active cell in message box:

Sub ActiveCell_RowNumber()
MsgBox ActiveCell.Row
End Sub

And the below code will show you the column number in a message box:

Sub ActiveCell_ColumnNumber()
MsgBox ActiveCell.Column
End Sub

Assign Active Cell Value to a Variable

You can also use VBA to assign the active cell to a variable. Once this is done, you can use this variable instead of the active cell in your code.

And how does this help? Good Question!

When you assign the active cell to a variable, you can continue to use this variable instead of the active cell. The benefit here is that unlike the active cell (which can change when other sheets or workbooks are activated) your variable would continue to refer to the original active cell it was assigned to.

So if you are writing a VBA code that cycles through each worksheet and activates these worksheets, while your active cell would change as new sheets are activated, the variable to which you assigned the active cell initially wouldn’t change.

Below is an example code that defines a variable ‘varcell’ and assigns the active cell to this variable.

Sub Assign_ActiveCell()
Dim varcell As Range
Set varcell = ActiveCell
MsgBox varcell.Value
End Sub

Select a Range of Cells Starting from the Active Cell

And the final thing I want to show you about using active cell in Excel VBA is to select an entire range of cells starting from the active cell.

A practical use case of this could be when you want to quickly format a set of cells in every sheet in your workbook.

Below is the VBA code that would select cells in 10 rows and 10 columns starting from the active cell:

Sub Select_from_Activecell()
Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.Offset(10, 10)).Select
End Sub

When we specify two cell references inside the Range property, VBA refers to the entire range covered between there two references.

For example, Range(Range(“A1”), Range(“A10”)).Select would select cell A1:A10.

Similarly, I have used it with active cell, Where the first reference is the active cell itself, and the second reference offsets the active cell by 10 rows and 10 columns.

I hope this tutorial has been useful for you in understanding how active cell works in Excel VBA.

Other Excel tutorials you may also find useful:

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• How to Delete Entire Row in Excel Using VBA
• Copy and Paste Multiple Cells in Excel (Adjacent & Non-Adjacent)
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Свойство ActiveCell объекта Application, применяемое в VBA для возвращения активной ячейки, расположенной на активном листе в окне приложения Excel.

Свойство ActiveCell объекта Application возвращает объект Range, представляющий активную ячейку на активном листе в активном или указанном окне приложения Excel. Если окно не отображает лист, применение свойства Application.ActiveCell приведет к ошибке.

Если свойство ActiveCell применяется к активному окну приложения Excel, то идентификатор объекта (Application или ActiveWindow) можно в коде VBA Excel не указывать. Следующие выражения, скопированные с сайта разработчиков, являются эквивалентными:

ActiveCell Application.ActiveCell ActiveWindow.ActiveCell Application.ActiveWindow.ActiveCell

Но если нам необходимо возвратить активную ячейку, находящуюся в неактивном окне приложения Excel, тогда без указания идентификатора объекта на обойтись:

Sub Primer1()     With Windows(«Книга2.xlsx»)         .ActiveCell = 325         MsgBox .ActiveCell.Address         MsgBox .ActiveCell.Value     End With End Sub

Программно сделать ячейку активной в VBA Excel можно с помощью методов Activate и 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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