How to search specific column within range in VBA

Question

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for any advice!

I'm using VBA to search for the first value within an array which is greater than a value specified elsewhere in a cell, and outputting the column and row number to new cells.

The code I am using is:

Sub A()

Dim rng As Range
Dim v As Variant
Dim colnum As Long
Dim row As Long

Set rng = Range("B2:BT72")
v = Sheets("WIP").Range("AC76").Value
For Each cll In rng
If cll.Value > v Then
    colnum = cll.Column
    row = cll.row
Exit For
End If
Next
Sheets("WIP").Range("AF76").Value = colnum + 25
Sheets("WIP").Range("AG76").Value = row + 25

End Sub

And that works fine. However I now need to only search a certain column and just output the row value. The column I need to search is also specified in a specific cell. I've modified the code to:

Sub B()

Dim rng As Range
Dim v As Variant
Dim x As Variant
Dim row As Long

Set rng = Range("A2:BT72")
v = Sheets("WIP").Range("AC77").Value
x = Sheets("WIP").Range("AF77").Value

For Each cell In rng.Columns(x - 25)
If cell.Value > v Then
    row = cell.row
Exit For
End If
Next
Sheets("WIP").Range("AG77").Value = row + 25

End Sub

This time I'm getting an error message type mismatch on the line "If cell.value > V Then" Can anybody spot why?

Thanks

Answer 1

The '.Cells' property needs to be specified for the range object in the second example:

Sub B()

    Dim rng As Range
    Dim v As Variant
    Dim x As Variant
    Dim row As Long

    Set rng = Range("A2:BT72")
    v = Sheets("WIP").Range("AC77").Value
    x = Sheets("WIP").Range("AF77").Value

    For Each cell In rng.Columns(x - 25).Cells
        If cell.Value > v Then
            row = cell.row
            Exit For
        End If
    Next
    Sheets("WIP").Range("AG77").Value = row + 25

End Sub