Range.Sort Sort Method of Range Class Failed

St Jimmy

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I think I'm doing something dumb since the solutions I've researched online don't work but I'm trying to sort a dynamic range of cells by their first column.

Code:
Dim LastRow As Integer
Dim LIB As String
LIB = "Library"


Sheets(LIB).Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Select
LastRow = ActiveCell.Row  'Determine last row


Sheets(LIB).Range("A9:R" & LastRow).Sort key1:=Range("A9:A" & LastRow), _
    order1:=xlAcending, Header:=xlNo

I have 4484 rows of data, column A is a text index. AB000100 - AB0014493, no cell in the col A range is empty. There are no duplicates. In the other cells the empty cells are represented by -
All cells are General Category.

When I run the macro it does not sort and spits a run-time error '1004' Sort method of Range class failed.

The data can be sorted manually, but what fun is that? I've never used Range.sort before so I think/hope it's something easy I'm forgetting...

Thank you!!!
 
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You're quite right Joe, if what I believed was true, it should work, but doesn't.
It seems I've been fed with some duff info. :(
Thanks for that.
 
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You're quite right Joe, if what I believed was true, it should work, but doesn't.
It seems I've been fed with some duff info
I thought I heard something like that once too, but I don't remember what language it was about.
Perhaps it was VB and not VBA, or some other programming language?
 
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I thought I heard something like that once too, but I don't remember what language it was about.
Perhaps it was VB and not VBA, or some other programming language?
It was definitely VBA, but I suspect that I may have misunderstood.
It might be that these days it simply uses the same amount of memory regardless of the declaration.
 
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