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Stuart

I have noted that the MVP members always include .Value when reffering to a cell. eg.

if activecell.value= 5 then

for years I would have just used (and have never had any problems) with.

if activecell=5


What are the bennifits in specifying "Value"?
 
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Bob Phillips

Stuart,

Invariably, an object has a default property. If you do not specify a property, the default is assumed.

I personally try to avoid the default and specify all properties. I find this causes less confusion, is more explanatory, and is likely to cut down on simple errors.

As you may have guessed. Value is the default property of the Range object, of which Activecell is an instance.

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Bob Phillips
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I have noted that the MVP members always include .Value when reffering to a cell. eg.

if activecell.value= 5 then

for years I would have just used (and have never had any problems) with.

if activecell=5


What are the bennifits in specifying "Value"?
 
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Harald Staff

Hi

If you don't spesify anything, the default property will be used. For a cell that's Value. So you don't have to use .value to enter a number or a text into a cell.

The good thing is that's a good habit, you know what you do and the code is explaining what's happening so you can read and maintain it afterwards without knowing what the default property of just everything might be.

You may already know this, but just in case: If you do something like

Activecell = Activecell

you might think that nothing changes and that you're just confirming where and what the active cell is. Well, not so. Do it in a cell containing a formula and see what happens.

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HTH. Best wishes Harald
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"Stuart" <[email protected]> skrev i melding I have noted that the MVP members always include .Value when reffering to a cell. eg.

if activecell.value= 5 then

for years I would have just used (and have never had any problems) with.

if activecell=5


What are the bennifits in specifying "Value"?
 
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Patrick Molloy

as mentioned, Value is the defualt property, and while it
can be omitted in VB6/VBA, using it does make code more
legible.

However .NET object have no defualt value. If your
current code uses the .Default methods & properties, then
it will make re-factoring your code so much easier.


Patrick Molloy
Microsoft Excel MVP
 
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