Method (everything) of object Global failed

Question

I have a macro which takes the body of an email, splits it into an array and places it into excel. It then uses colons to split rows into [label] and [data].

For some reason it has stopped working. I had some good help here but it has now failed in the second subroutine and I can't get my head around the error. I am sure it's something simple, possibly related to running from outlook or incorrect definition of ranges. Everything using rows, cells, range object etc gives this error.

The exact error is Runtime 1004 error. Method [cells, rows] of object Global failed Runtime 1004 error. Method [cells, rows] of object Global failed

I have used a comment to mark the point where problems begin:

Private oXLApp As Object, oXLWb As Object, oXLWs As Object
Sub Thermo_to_excel()
    Dim myOlApp As Object, mynamespace As Object
    Dim ThermoMail As Object
    Dim msgText, delimtedMessage, Delim1 As String



    Set myOlApp = Outlook.Application
    Set mynamespace = myOlApp.GetNamespace("mapi")
    Set ThermoMail = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem

    delimtedMessage = ThermoMail.Body

    '~~> Establish an EXCEL application object
    On Error Resume Next
    Set oXLApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")

    '~~> If not found then create new instance
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        Set oXLApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
    End If
    Err.Clear
    On Error GoTo 0

    Set oXLWb = oXLApp.Workbooks.Add
    Set oXLWs = oXLWb.Sheets("Sheet1")

    'Truncated [Array definition goes here]

    With oXLWs
        .Range(.Cells(1, 1), .Cells(lastRow, 1)).Value = _
        oXLApp.WorksheetFunction.Transpose(messageArray)
    End With

    Call splitAtColons
    ThermoMail.Close (olDiscard)
End Sub

Sub splitAtColons()

Dim Roows As Integer
'PROBLEMS start here now
Roows = Cells(oXLWs.Rows.Count & "," & oXLWs.ActiveCell.Column).End(xlUp).Row 

Range("A1").Select
Range("A1:B" & Roows).Font.Name = Range("B1").Font.Name
Range("A1:B" & Roows).NumberFormat = "@"



'Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Do Until Z = Roows

If Not InStr(ActiveCell.Value, ":") = 0 Then
    Cells(ActiveCell.Row, 2).Value = Trim(Mid(ActiveCell.Value, InStr(ActiveCell.Value, ":") + 1))
    ActiveCell.Value = Left(ActiveCell.Value, InStr(ActiveCell.Value, ":"))
Else
    Cells(ActiveCell.Row, 2).Value = Trim(ActiveCell.Value)
    ActiveCell.Value = ""
End If
If ActiveCell.Value = "" And Range("B" & ActiveCell.Row).Value = "" Then
ActiveCell.EntireRow.Delete
Roows = Roows - 1
Z = Z - 1
End If


    Range("A" & Z + 2).Select
    Z = Z + 1
Loop
Columns("B:B").EntireColumn.AutoFit
Columns("A:A").EntireColumn.AutoFit
'Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Answer 1

I believe your problem is that you are not fully defining your Range , Cells , & Columns functions. Try adding oXLWs. before each of those functions, or add a With oXLWs line and add . before each of those functions and see what happens.

If you run this in Excel, the Range , Cells , & Columns functions will work because they will refer to the active worksheet. If you run this through Outlook, it may not work if the sheet is not active.