"Find Property of the Range Class"

[yippie_ky_yay]

Hello Forum,

I have been trying to implement a search across all worksheets using examples found in this forum.

I have tried a couple, but always get:
"Run-Time Error 1004: Unable to get the Find Property of the Range Class". And, as suspected, in the debugger the line with ".Find" in it is what is highlighted.

I am using '97 - any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Sean

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

Post the offending line.

You're not on a Chart sheet are you?

 

[yippie_ky_yay]

Hey Andrew - thanks for replying.

One example is:
Dim ws As Worksheet
For Each ws In Worksheets
ws.Select
Cells.Find(What:=txtContractSearch).Activate
Next

On line 4 ("Cells.Find....") is where the debugger stops.

Another example from the same post:

Dim Message, Title, Default, SearchString
Message = "Enter your search string!" ' Set prompt.
Title = "Find ? On all sheets!" ' Set title.
Default = "" ' Set default.
' Display message, title, and default value.
SearchString = InputBox(Message, Title, Default)
Set S = Sheets.Application
For Each S In Application.Sheets
With S.Range("A1:IV65536")
Set F = .Find(SearchString, MatchCase:=True, LookAt:=xlWhole, LookIn:=xlValues)
If F Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Not Found!"
Else
Location = F.Address
S.Select
Range(Location).Select
Exit For
End If
End With
Next S

Doesn't like the Set F = .Find....


Thanks!
This message was edited by yippie_ky_yay on 2002-09-17 09:47

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

Your code will fail on Activate if no match is found. This worked for me.

Sub Test()
    Dim txtContractSearch As String
    Dim c As Range
    txtContractSearch = "Test"
    Set c = ActiveSheet.Cells.Find(What:=txtContractSearch)
    If Not c Is Nothing Then c.Activate
End Sub

Maybe you need:

ws.Cells.Find(What:=txtContractSearch)

I don't know about the second example. It should work if F is declared as Range.

 

[yippie_ky_yay]

Hey Andrew,

I used your exact code and still get:
"Run-Time Error 1004: Unable to get the Find Property of the Range Class".

It must be something on my machine then huh?

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

Strange. This is an extract from Help - it may be relevant.

Remarks

The settings for LookIn, LookAt, SearchOrder, and MatchByte are saved each time you use this method. If you don’t specify values for these arguments the next time you call the method, the saved values are used. Setting these arguments changes the settings in the Find dialog box, and changing the settings in the Find dialog box changes the saved values that are used if you omit the arguments. To avoid problems, set these arguments explicitly each time you use this method.

 

[yippie_ky_yay]

Hey Andrew,

thanks for all your help on this - I figured it out. All I had to do was set the "TakeFocusOnClick" to false on my command button and the rest of your code worked perfectly!

Thanks again,

-Sean