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    How to activate a past activecell

    I am writing a macro which uses a loop to find a certain cell and then it copies the cell to the left and pastes it on another sheet, but when it goes to paste on another sheet a new cell is activated. I need the macro to keep looping on the initial sheet but now that cell (copied from) is not active anymore. How can i make it so the macro remembers that initial cell (on initial sheet) and continue the loop from there?
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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    It would help to see the code. You almost never need to select or activate anything in code anyway.
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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    I need the loop to continue searching from the first place the "IF" statement is satisfied.

    It would be something like this:

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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    Try this:
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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    not picking up the right cells for some reason, but that's a much nicer code! thanks!

    I'll try adjusting it so I can get it to pick up the right numbers (relating to "Z").

    edit: needed to change .Offset(0, -8).Value to .Offset(n, -8).Value, working perfectly now!!! thanks so much!
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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    Yep, well spotted. Sorry about that!

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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    I think it needs a slight amendment

    Edit: Romper replied whilst I was looking at it
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    Re: How to activate a past activecell

    Been trying to figure out this for hours... after I posted it was solved in 5 mins! Thanks guys, best excel forums ever, quick too!

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