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VBA Finding corners of a selection

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Given a rectangular Selection , how do I find the Cell s for each corner? Specifically, the top right
and bottom left.
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E.g. if a user selects the range B2:G9 , I would like to get the address of each corner from the
Selection object.

I used .Address to get the top left and the bottom right corners, and while I could start splitting the
strings and perform regex replace on them I want to know if there is a cleaner way.

excel vba

asked Feb 14 '17 at 7:31

Norsk
572 9 21

2 Answers Active Oldest Votes

Do you mean something like the code below.

9 Note: it's better to stay away from Select and Selection , you could try using With Range("B2:G9")
instead (not implemented yet in the code below)

Option Explicit

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42220257/vba-finding-corners-of-a-selection 1/3
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Sub GetRangeSelectionCorners()

Dim TopLeft As String, TopRight As String, BottomLeft As String, BottomRight As String

Dim TopLeftRow As Long, TopLeftCol As Long, BottomRightRow As Long, BottomRightCol As
Long

Range("B2:G9").Select
With Selection
TopLeft = .Cells(1, 1).Address '<-- top left cell in Selection
TopRight = .Cells(1, .Columns.Count).Address '<-- top right cell in Selection
BottomLeft = .Cells(.Rows.Count, 0.1).Address '<-- bottom left cell in selection
BottomRight = .Cells(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count).Address '<-- last cell in
selection (bottom right)

' get row and column number

TopLeftRow = .Cells(1, 1).Row '<-- top left cell's row
TopLeftCol = .Cells(1, 1).Column '<-- top left cell's column
BottomRightRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count).Row '<-- bottom right cell's
row
BottomRightCol = .Cells(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count).Column '<-- bottom right
cell's column
End With

MsgBox "Top Left cell address is :" & TopLeft & vbCr & _
"Top Right cell address is :" & TopRight & vbCr & _
"Bottom Left cell address is :" & BottomLeft & vbCr & _
"Bottom Right cell address is :" & BottomRight

MsgBox "Top Left cell's row is : " & TopLeftRow & _

", and column is :" & TopLeftCol & vbCr & _
"Bottom Right cell's row is : " & BottomRightRow & _
", Bottom Right cell's column is :" & BottomRightCol

End Sub

edited Feb 14 '17 at 7:52 answered Feb 14 '17 at 7:45

Shai Rado
31.5k 6 18 42

3 Why the 0.1 in BottomLeft = .Cells(.Rows.Count, 0.1).Address ? Why not BottomLeft =

.Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).Address ? – Axel Richter Feb 14 '17 at 7:51

top_right_row=selection.rows(1).row
top_right_col=(selection.columns(1).column+selection.columns.count-1)
2 bottom_left_row=(selection.rows(1).row+selection.rows.count-1)
bottom_left_col=selection.columns(1).column

you can get row and column values like this. i havent tested the code if you have any error please
revert back

edited Jul 31 at 9:12 answered Feb 14 '17 at 7:44

Sivaprasath Vadivel
533 5 12

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42220257/vba-finding-corners-of-a-selection 2/3
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I like the simplicity of this answer so I gave you my vote. I want to point out that your bottom_right_*
variables should actually be named bottom_left_* based on the values that are set in them and the
question being answered. – Ben Jul 23 at 5:20

1 Thanks for the upvote and I have changed my answer based on your comments – Sivaprasath Vadivel Jul
31 at 9:12

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42220257/vba-finding-corners-of-a-selection 3/3