Error 1004 using variable range

[jfr92]

The following five lines of code are inside a loop in which i goes from 1 to 600. When i was 594 a condition allowed these lines to be executed. (The last was in my original code and the others were just added to try to figure out why the last had a problem.) The first three work and the last two trigger error 1004 "Application-defined or object-defined error." All I am trying to do is to fill some cells with a dummy value. It doesn't matter whether I try to fill with 1 or with "1".

Worksheets("Volumep").Cells(5, i+3) = 1
Worksheets("Volumep").Range("vv5:vv104").FillDown
Worksheets("Volumep").Range("vv5:vv104").Value = 1
Worksheets("Volumep").Range(Cells(5, i+3), Cells(104, i+3)).FillDown
Worksheets("Volumep").Range(Cells(5, i+3), Cells(104, i+3)).Value = 1

Whether or not there is a different or better technique for filling cells, the range specification is the real issue I am trying to solve. The referencing issue produces the same error later in the module where more complicated work is being done. Can someone please tell me what I may be doing wrong or failing to do?

Bonus question: is there a general prohibition forbidding the mixing of range("a1") and cell(1,1) styles of addressing in the same line of code? (Not a factor in the immediate problem but related to previous problems I have encountered)

 

[VoG]

Duplicate of http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/747337-error-1004-using-variable-range.html

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