Question

Hoping someone can help with a VBA problem I am having.

I want to change the value for a Named Range when a user double clicks on the cell. There are two worksheets, the initial worksheet with a value in a cell and then the destination worksheet which contains the Named Range Account_Number.

This is my code:

Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)

    [Account_Number] = ActiveCell.Value 'assign the value to the Named Range

    Range([Account_Number]).Select ' go to the Named Range on the other worksheet

   'Sheets("Transaction Listing_LINKS").Select 'the workaround to the problem below
End Sub

What I expect is that the Named Range to be populated and selected.

The problem is I get a

“1004 error: Method ‘Range’ of object ‘_Worksheet’ failed”

error when I double click on the cell.

The strange thing is that if I only use one worksheet it works without any problems.

Can anyone explain to me why this would happen and how to avoid it?

The only fix/workaround I can think of is to code the selection of the worksheet to force it to select it.

Thank you

Answer 1

Try:

Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick(ByVal Target As Range, Cancel As Boolean)
  'assign the value to the Named Range
  Sheet2.Range("Account_Number").Value = ActiveCell.Value
  ' go to the Named Range on the other worksheet
  Application.GoTo Reference:="Account_Number" 
 'Sheets("Transaction Listing_LINKS").Select 'the workaround to the problem below
End Sub

Of course you’d need to change “Sheet2” to the destination worksheet name containing the named range.