Error with find and activate functions in excel with vba

Question

I'm having a really bad time trying to understand why I get an error which I thing should not appear. I'm using Office 2007. I have two sheets in Excel, "Ver" and "Encargado", in "Ver" sheet I have one cell in which to put a number and then I press one button. The code inside the button is:

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
   Dim buscar As Range
   dato = Range("b2").Value
   If dato = "" Then Exit Sub

   Sheets("Encargado").Select
   Set buscar = Range("b2:b12").Find(What:=dato, LookIn:=xlFormulas, SearchOrder:=xlByRows)

   If Not buscar Is Nothing Then
      buscar.Activate
      ActiveCell.Offset(, -1).Copy Destination:=Ver.Cells(4, 2)
      Sheets("Ver").Select
   Else
      Sheets("Ver").Select
      MsgBox "Encargado no encontrado"
      Exit Sub
   End If
End Sub

In "Encargado" sheet and inside the range b2:b12 there are only numbers beetwen 101 and 111, and when I put the number 117 as an input (for example) I think it should get into the else part as it shouldn't have found any coincidence, but it gets into the if part, why? and I get an error saying "Error en el método activate de la clase Range" (As you noticed I am using Office in spanish, and programming as well with spanish variables). When I run line by line the error appears in the line "buscar.Activate". Does anyone know where is the error? In the case you want to see it, here is the file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1b39fqy971n7lf/Todo.xlsm Thanks.

Answer 1

You have not defined the sheet in find function so its referring ver sheet. Use this code.

   Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
   Dim buscar As Range

   'Application.ScreenUpdating = False

   dato = Range("b2").Value

   If dato = "" Then Exit Sub
    Set buscar = Sheets("Encargado").Range("b2:b12").Find(What:=dato, LookIn:=xlValues, SearchOrder:=xlByRows)
   If Not buscar Is Nothing Then
      'Encargado.Cells.Find(What:=Ver.Cells(2, 2), After:=Range("b2"), LookIn:=xlFormulas, SearchOrder:=xlByRows).Select
      'desplazamiento en fila, desplazamiento en columna, positivo: hacia abajo, hacia la derecha
      'buscar.Activate
      c = buscar.Row

     Sheets("Encargado").Range("a" & c).Copy
     Sheets("Ver").Range("b4").PasteSpecial


   Else
      Sheets("Ver").Select
      MsgBox "Encargado no encontrado"
      Exit Sub
   End If
   'Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Answer 2

EDIT: As pointed out in the comments below, the Range object DOES have an .Activate method: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff837085(v=office.15).aspx

buscar is a Range object, which does not have an Activate method. The following should get you where you're going, but out of curiosity -- have you looked into Excel's built-in =VLOOKUP functionality? It might save you from requiring VBA here...

Option Explicit
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim TerritorioNum As Long, LastRow As Long
Dim TerritorioRange As Range, FoundRange As Range
Dim VerSheet As Worksheet, EncSheet As Worksheet

'set references up-front
Set VerSheet = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Ver")
Set EncSheet = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Encargado")
With EncSheet
    LastRow = .Cells.Find("*", SearchOrder:=xlByRows, SearchDirection:=xlPrevious).Row
    Set TerritorioRange = .Range(.Cells(1, 1), .Cells(LastRow, 2))
End With
TerritorioNum = VerSheet.Cells(2, 2).Value

'find the territory number
Set FoundRange = TerritorioRange.Find(TerritorioNum)
If FoundRange Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox ("Encargado no encontrado")
    Exit Sub
Else
    VerSheet.Cells(4, 2) = EncSheet.Cells(FoundRange.Row, FoundRange.Column - 1).Value
End If

End Sub