Copy/paste value a range in VBA excel

Question

In order to apply the clean function to the range A1:B50 in my excel sheet, I wrote the code below. However this code won't paste the values I copied. Any idea what's wrong with it? Thanks!

Sub clean ()
Dim ws

Set ws = wb.Worksheets(1)
ws.Range("D1:D50") = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
ws.Range("E1:E50") = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
ws.Range("D1:E50").Copy
ws.Range("A1:B50").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
ws.Range("D:E").Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End sub

Answer 1

Clean a Range

Microsoft Links

• CLEAN function (additional nonprinting characters)
• Top ten ways to clean your data

Option Explicit

Sub cleanRange()
    
    Dim wb As Workbook: Set wb = ThisWorkbook ' workbook containinig this code
    Dim ws As Worksheet: Set ws = wb.Worksheets(1)
    Dim rg As Range: Set rg = ws.Range("A1:B50")
    rg.Value = Application.Clean(rg.Value)
    
    ' These will not work:
    'rg.Value = WorksheetFunction.Clean(rg.Value)
    'rg.Value = WorksheetFunction.Clean(rg)

End Sub

Sub cleanRangeYourIdea()

    Dim wb As Workbook: Set wb = ThisWorkbook ' workbook containinig this code
    Dim ws As Worksheet: Set ws = wb.Worksheets(1)
    ws.Range("D1:E50").Value = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
    ws.Range("A1:B50").Value = ws.Range("D1:E50").Value
    ws.Range("D:E").Delete Shift:=xlToLeft

End Sub

Answer 2

Recreating a test case for your SUB, the minimun changes for your code to work are include in this snippet:

Sub clean()
Dim ws

Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
ws.Range("D1:D2") = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
ws.Range("E1:E2") = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
ws.Range("D1:E2").Copy
ws.Range("A1:B2").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
ws.Range("D:E").Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End Sub

Nonetheless, considering that VBA is very permissive (specially without Option Explicit) and for following good code practice), here I put some more fixes:

Option Explicit
Sub Clean1()
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
    ws.Range("D1:D2").Formula = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
    ws.Range("E1:E2").Formula = "=CLEAN(RC[-3])"
    ws.Range("D1:E2").Copy
    ws.Range("A1:B2").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
    ws.Range("D:E").Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
    Set ws = Nothing
End Sub

Both codes were tested and they work. Until this time, I did not touched the logic which could be optmized with vba functions but does not seem to bad to rely on excel functions

Sorry for the format of the post, I'm new here.

Edit: I deleted a bold markdown to a word.