Microsoft KB Archive/213488

= XL2000: Cells.Find Returns Error Message When No Match Found =

Article ID: 213488

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213488





SYMPTOMS
When you run a recorded Visual Basic for Applications macro, the Cells.Find, Columns.Find, Selection.Find, and Range.Find functions will produce the following macro error message if no data is found:

Runtime error '91':

Object variable not Set

This macro error message occurs because the Visual Basic Find method returns a NULL value, which makes activating a cell impossible.



WORKAROUND
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The following Visual Basic example attempts to find the text string "mystring," and produces an alert message that will not cause the macro to halt: Sub Find_Macro mystring = "mystring" Set RangeObj = Cells.Find(What:=mystring, After:=ActiveCell, _   LookIn:=xlFormulas, LookAt:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _    SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False) If RangeObj Is Nothing Then MsgBox "Not Found" Else RangeObj.Select End Sub

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