You can’t select a range in a worksheet which isn’t the active worksheet. The workbook you opened just before this statement is now active.

The good news is that you don’t need to select the range. Change this:

Workbooks(“Servicing Program Change Log.xls”).Worksheets(“Sheet1?).Range(“S11:AD11?).Select
Selection.Copy

to this:

Workbooks(“Servicing Program Change Log.xls”).Worksheets(“Sheet1?).Range(“S11:AD11?).Copy

Any ideas ?
Thank you,
Diane

VBA won’t die anytime soon, in my opinion. The Excel 4 Macro Language is still supported over a decade later, so VBA will be supported for a long time. MS likely will not be making it better, but you will have not wasted your time learning VBA.

I think it’s the wrong way to do it. That kind of stuff gets picked up along the way. I think, especially for a young person, and maybe even more so for people with better things to do, the important thing is to do something that provides a constructive or enjoyment ‘feedback’ as quickly as possible.

For example, I began learning VBA by working out how to insert functionality by copying and pasting code I was nicking from other peoples macros. That way I was immediately doing cool stuff, which caused be to look at the code more, and start playing with it, etc…

I think the most important thing is to cut with the textbook learning and be interested enough to set yourself tasks, such as, write a macro to allow me to pick up the names of all sheets and select which to print.

Other than that, Java is a good one. Very intelligently designed, and safe.
And with a good decompiler, you can nick a lot of great code

Would I use VBA to teach programming. I don’t tend to think that the language used matters too much. The principals are the same no matter which language you are using. VBA with XL is nice from the stand point of immediate feedback. Additionally you can dip your toe into the whole idea of objects. The recorder is a plus and a minus in that it help you understand the object model but it teaches you nothing about actual programming. Recorded macros are purely sequential with no selection or looping structures.

So in a nut shell either programming makes sense to you or it doesn’t. If it makes sense to you then the language choosen has little effect (IMO). What is important is to build good coding discipline in at the early stages. That will cut down on the frustration level more than the choice of language. The only thing I would say is that if you intend to do programming on more than just a casual basis take C at some point in your life. Understanding C means having some sort of clue what is going on inside the magic box on your desk. That kind of knowledge makes you better at all languages.

Excel formulas don’t do anything but return values to the cells that contain them. A fine example of a functional programming language EXCEPT that the only way to define functions in Excel’s language of formulas is by using XLM macro sheets, and that’s definitely NOT what well-meaning parents should be teaching their children. Yes, there’s also VBA, but there’s no relationship between VBA and cell formulas except for the happenstantial one that Microsoft combined them in a single product. So teaching Excel formulas and VBA is teaching TWO things at once, and that’s more often than not a recipe for failure.

Putting it another way, anyone seriously suggesting teaching kids Excel as their first foray into programming has never tried to teach kids programming. Pitiful lack of experience in what SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK.