Cell() vs. Offset(): ActiveCell.Offset(0,MyVar-1).select works. ActiveCell.Cell(0,MyVar).select does not.

[JohnKauffman]

I made a simple macro to move a row up one row (cut, selection Insert). I wanted to leave the active cell in the same col as at the start, so I save the start col# in intStartCol, getting it from ActiveCell.column. This is One Based

At the end when I set the active cell back to the original column this works: ActiveCell.Offset(0,intStartCOl-1) but zero based. But can't get ActiveCell.Cell(0,intStartCOl) to work (one based and therefore cleaner)

Why won't ActiveCell.Cell() work for last line?

Sub MoveRowUpOne()
'Action: move up one row Active Cell's row
'End with same col selected as at start
' n.b.if >1 row selected to start, only top row moves up
' n.b.if >1 col selected to start, ends w/ selection in left col
'''''''''''''''''''''''
' save col of the selection at start
Dim intStartCol As Integer
intStartCol = ActiveCell.Column
' select entire current row, cut
ActiveCell.Rows("1:1").EntireRow.Cut
'select the row one up
'since insert goes above row,only need to move up one.
ActiveCell.Offset(-1, 0).Rows("1:1").EntireRow.Select
Selection.Insert Shift:=xlDown
' after insert, entire row will be selected. Change to original col
' saved from ActiveCell.Column = 1 base, Offset 0-base
ActiveCell.Offset(0, intStartCol - 1).Select
' !!! why not works: ActiveCell.Cell(0,inStartCol).select?
End Sub

 

[MARK858]

You are missing a t

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ActiveCell.Cell(0,in[/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000]t[/COLOR][COLOR=#333333]StartCol).select

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[JohnKauffman]

Wow, I completely over-blew the problem. Thanks a million.

 

[MARK858]

Now you can see the benefit of using Option Explicit if you are declaring variables (which most people recommend).

If you had put Option Explicit at the start of your code it would have highlighted "inStartCol" as being a variable not declared indicating an issue as you had declared "intStartCol" already(it showed up straight away when I posted it in my module).

Anyway glad it helped.