Re: .Copy and .Paste in Excel VBA

Question

Why, when copying a cell, shape, etc in Excel VBA, is ActiveSheet.Cells(i,j).Paste not valid?

Instead I have

Cells(i,j).Select
ActiveSheet.Paste

which works, but why?

Answer 1

Because .Paste has to be applied to a SheetObject (as you have written correctly: ActiveSheet.Paste )

Check out the method on MSDN . It has to be used the following way:

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("C1:C5").Copy 
ActiveSheet.Paste Destination:=Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("D1:D5")

Or more shortly:

Cells(j,i).Copy Destination:=Cells(y,z)

Or use the PasteSpecial -method. It can be applied to Range-objects:

With sheet
    .Range("C1:C5").Copy 
    .Range("D1:D5").PasteSpecial Operation:=xlPasteSpecialOperationAdd 
End With

Answer 2

You don't have to tell it to paste for example, if you have the variables set for i and j then you can use this

Range("A1").Copy Cells(i, j)

You could even have no copying at all, such as:

Cells(i, j)=Range("A1")