Article ID: 137807
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q137807
SYMPTOMS
When you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that uses the
Application.Goto method to jump to a cell or range of cells, you may
receive one of the following error messages:
Run time error '1004'
Goto method of Application class failed
Run-time error '1004':
Method 'Goto' of object '_Application' failed
CAUSE
This behavior occurs when you use code similar to the following when a
custom dialog box is active:
Application.Goto _
Reference:=Workbooks("Book1").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C5"), _
Scroll:=True
NOTE: This does not occur when you use a custom UserForm in Microsoft Excel 2000 or Microsoft
Excel 97 or Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.
WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, use macro code similar to the following
example.
Sample Visual Basic Procedure
' Select the appropriate section of the worksheet.
' (This code has similar results to the Reference:= argument
' that you use with the Goto command.)
Workbooks("Book1").Activate
Sheets("Sheet1").Select
Range("C5").Select
' Scroll such that the selected cell is in the top left corner of the
' active window. (This code has similar results to the Scroll:=True
' argument that you use with the Goto command.)
ActiveWindow.ScrollColumn = ActiveCell.Column
ActiveWindow.ScrollRow = ActiveCell.Row
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
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