Understanding Range.Cells(x,y)

How do you explain these?


Range("D10")(0, 0).Select 'Selects C9
How do you move left and up when you have 0? Why not move right and down or right and up?



Range("D10")(-1, -1).Select 'Selects B8

I don't understand how these cells are counted either. It's as if you have to add an addition 1, actually -1, to each value to derive the answer.


Please explain how these work.

Hi,

Range("D10")(1,1) would give you the cell that resides in the first row and first column of the range "D10".

So therefore Range("D10")(0,0) offsets "D10" by -1 row and -1 column (C9 in this case), and a similar argument for B8.

In a general sense, the (x,y) coordinates are relative to the "first" (upper-left most) cell in the specified range, and the "first" cell is represented by (1,1). So (x,y) would specify the row that is x - 1 rows below the row of the "first" cell in the specified range, and the column that is y - 1 columns to the right.

I hope this has cleared things up a little bit for you

@Norie: agreed *thumbs up*!