How to Use VBA Range Based on Column Number in Excel

Using VBA code is an effective and intelligent way to deal with various tasks in Excel. In this article, you will learn how to use VBA Range based on the column number in Excel.

The GIF given below depicts the overview concept of selecting a range of data based on column number by incorporating VBA code.

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VBA Range Object

The Range object in VBA can contain a single cell, multiple cells, rows, and columns within the Excel worksheet.

The hierarchy of the Range object is as below.

Application > Workbook > Worksheet > Range

This is how you should declare the Range object in VBA.

4 Methods in Embedding VBA to Use Range Based on Column Number in Excel

This section will discuss how to select a range based on column numbers, how to set a value in a range based on column numbers and how to return the last column number of a range in Excel using VBA macro.

1. VBA to Select a Range Based on Column Number in Excel

If you want to select a range based on column numbers in Excel from a fuzzy dataset like shown below, then you should continue reading this article to get the solution.

Steps to select a range from the dataset shown above using column numbers are described below.

Steps:

• First of all, press Alt + F11 on your keyboard to open the Microsoft Visual Basic window.
•  You can also do it by going to the tab Developer -> Visual Basic to insert VBA code.

• Then, in the pop-up code window, from the menu bar, click Insert -> Module.

• Copy the following code and Paste it into the code window.

Sub SetRange()
    Range(Cells(4, 5), Cells(12, 7)).Select
End Sub

Here,

• Cells(4,5) = 2nd row, 3rd column (Cell E4)
• Cells(12,7) = 10th row, 5th column (Cell G12)

Your code is now ready to run.

• Press F5 on your keyboard or from the menu bar select Run -> Run Sub/UserForm. You can also just click on the small Play icon in the sub-menu bar to run the macro.

The cell range from E4 to G12 will be selected (see the picture below) based on the column number that we provided.

Read More: VBA Range with Variable Row Number in Excel (4 Examples)

2. VBA to Set Values in a Range Based on Column Number in Excel

You have learned how to select a range based on column numbers in the previous section. In this section, you will know how to set values in the range based on column numbers.

Steps:

• Same way as before, open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, Copy the following code and Paste it.

Sub SetValue()
    Range(Cells(2, 4), Cells(4, 10)).Value2 = "Hello!"
End Sub

Here,

• Cells(2,4) = 2nd row, 2nd column (Cell B4)
• Cells(4,10) = 8th row, 4th column (Cell D10)

Your code is now ready to run.

• Then, Run the macro and all the cells from B4 to D10 now hold the value “Hello!”

Read More: Excel VBA: Set Range by Row and Column Number (3 Examples)

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3. VBA to Select a Range from Different Worksheet Based on Column Number in Excel

Here you will learn how to select a range based on column numbers from a different worksheet in Excel.

Steps:

• Same way as before, open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, Copy the following code and Paste it.

Sub FixedRange()
  Dim x As Range
  Dim y As Worksheet
  Set y = Worksheets("Range") 
  With x
    .Cells(7, 7).Select 
    Set x = .Range(.Cells(5, 5), .Cells(9, 8))
  End With
  x.Select 
End Sub

Here,

• Cells(5,5) = 3rd row, 3rd column (Cell E5)
• Cells(9,8) = 7th row, 6th column (Cell H9)

Your code is now ready to run.

Read More: VBA to Convert Column Number to Letter in Excel (3 Methods)

4. VBA to Return the Last Column Number in a Range in Excel

In this section, we will learn about the VBA code on how to get the last column number in an active range in Excel. Consider the following dataset that has data from Cell B4 to E13. We will extract the last column number from the range in the Return box, Cell G5.

Steps to do that are given below.

Steps:

• Same way as before, open Visual Basic Editor from the Developer tab and Insert a Module in the code window.
• In the code window, Copy the following code and Paste it.

Sub ReturnLastColumnInRange()
    Dim x As Worksheet
    Dim y As Range
    Set z = Worksheets("Return") 
    Set y = z.Range("B4:E13") 
    z.Range("G5") = y.Column + y.Columns.Count - 1
End Sub

Your code is now ready to run.

• After that, Run the macro.
• And you will get the last column number, 5, in Cell G5.

Read More: How to Return Column Number of Match in Excel (5 Useful Ways)

Advantages of VBA Set Range

• It is very easy to implement.
• Additionally, the arguments inside the Range object are not fixed. So we can modify the values of the argument according to our needs.
• More than 1 value can be passed as arguments.

Practice Section

Finally, we have provided a practice section on each sheet on the right side. If you want to practice, then use this section.

Things to Remember

• CELLS properties in VBA can also be used to set the Range in VBA.
• Moreover, object variables should be set as the reference of the object by the SET keyword.

Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to use VBA Range based on the column number in Excel. I hope this article has been very beneficial to you. However, if you have any queries, then feel free to ask any questions regarding the topic.

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