mac excel 2011 vba range gives error

Question

im using excel mac 2011. Im trying to get the contents in cell A2, but it prompts an error. Getting the contents of cell A1 works, but not A2. I also notice there is no problem with the same code running in PC excel.

My vba code is as follows:

msgbox Range("A2")

I have also tried:

msgbox Range("A2").value
msgbox Cells(2,1)

but nothing works on mac. i receive this error message:

I have even updated my excel to ver 14.3.9 but it doesn't works.

Any idea? Thanks.

Answer 1

Sounds like some weird macness to me. According to this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2624782

that particular error can occur if you have your region in your Mac's system settings set to something other than the US. Sounds pretty strange. I do not have a mac to test on, but try to adjust your region settings and see if that fixes it. Googling the error codes of 80000008 and -2147483640 yield several unrelated situations that seem to all have some resolution involving region settings.