Question

I wrote some functional VBA:

Sheets("Src").Range("A2:A9").Copy Destination:=Sheets("Dest").Range("A2")

I want to extract the source range into a variable for flexibility.

SrcRange = Sheets("Src").Range("A2:A9")
SrcRange.Copy Destination:=Sheets("Dest").Range("A2")

However, this doesn’t work.
What SrcRange should be Dimmed as? Is the first line even correct?
I tried Dimming SrcRange as Range and it gave me
Runtime error 91: Object Variable or With block variable not set

I’m not very familiar with the language and the documentation has left me wanting (I couldn’t find the return type to the Sheets(index) invocation, this was the closest I found). When I hit Record Macro, perform some actions, and hit stop, the Macro body is still blank.

Could anyone shed some light on how to use SrcRange as a variable?

Answer 1

In your own answer, you effectively do this:

Dim SrcRange As Range ' you should always declare things explicitly
Set SrcRange = Sheets("Src").Range("A2:A9")
SrcRange.Copy Destination:=Sheets("Dest").Range("A2")

You’re not really "extracting" the range to a variable, you’re setting a reference to the range.

In many situations, this can be more efficient as well as more flexible:

Dim Src As Variant
Src= Sheets("Src").Range("A2:A9").Value 'Read range to array
'Here you can add code to manipulate your Src array
'...
Sheets("Dest").Range("A2:A9").Value = Src 'Write array back to another range