Declare a Range relative to the Active Cell with VBA

Question

I need to declare a range object relative to the Active Cell. The problem is, the number of rows and columns I want to select is different each time the macro runs.

For example, I have two variables: numRows and numCols.

I want to select a range that has the ActiveCell in the upper-left corner hand has the cell with row ActiveCell.Row + NumRows and column ActiveCell.Column + NumCols in the bottom right (and then I intend to copy this data to an array to speed up my macro).

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Answer 1

There is an .Offset property on a Range class which allows you to do just what you need

ActiveCell.Offset(numRows, numCols)

follow up on a comment:

Dim newRange as Range
Set newRange = Range(ActiveCell, ActiveCell.Offset(numRows, numCols))

and you can verify by MsgBox newRange.Address

and here's how to assign this range to an array

Answer 2

Like this:

Dim rng as Range
Set rng = ActiveCell.Resize(numRows, numCols)

then read the contents of that range to an array:

Dim arr As Variant
arr = rng.Value
'arr is now a two-dimensional array of size (numRows, numCols)

or, select the range (I don't think that's what you really want, but you ask for this in the question).

rng.Select