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Access paths for the columns of a worksheet:

▪Application à Workbooks à Item à Sheets à Item à Columns

▪Application à Workbooks à Item à ActiveSheet à Columns

▪Application à ActiveWorkbook à ActiveSheet à Columns

▪Application à ActiveSheet à Columns

▪Application à Columns

Access paths for the columns of arbitrary ranges:

▪Application à Workbooks à Item à Sheets à Item à Range à Columns

▪Application à Workbooks à ActiveSheet à Range à Columns

▪Application à ActiveWorkbook à ActiveSheet à Range à Columns

▪Application à ActiveSheet à Range à Columns

▪Application à Range à Columns

Access paths for the columns of entire table columns:

▪Application à Workbooks à Item à Sheets à Item à Rows à Item à Columns

▪Application à Workbooks à ActiveSheet à Rows à Item à Columns

▪Application à ActiveWorkbook à ActiveSheet à Rowsà Item à Columns

▪Application à ActiveSheet à Rowsà Item à Columns

▪Application à Rowsà Item à Columns

Access paths for the columns in the currently selected cells:

▪Application à Workbooks à Item à Sheets à Item à Selection à Columns

▪Application à Workbooks à ActiveSheet à Selection à Columns

▪Application à ActiveWorkbook à ActiveSheet à Selection à Columns

▪Application à ActiveSheet à Selection à Columns

▪Application à Selection à Columns

 1  Description

Columns is a collection of all columns in a worksheet or range. The individual elements of this collection are of the type Range, which allows you to apply all properties and methods available for Range objects to them.

 2  Access to the object

Columns can be the child object of two different objects:

▪As a child object of a Sheet object, it represents all columns of this worksheet.

▪As a child object of a Range object, it represents all columns of this range.

Examples for Columns as a child object of a Sheet object:

' Display the number of columns in the current worksheet

MsgBox pm.ActiveSheet.Columns.Count

 

' Format the first column in the worksheet in boldface

pm.ActiveSheet.Columns(1).Font.Bold = True

Examples for Columns as a child object of a Range object:

' Display the number of columns in the specified range

MsgBox pm.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:F50").Columns.Count

 

' Format the first column in a range in boldface

pm.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:F50").Columns(1).Font.Bold = True

 3  Properties, objects, collections and methods

Properties:

▪Count R/O

 

Objects:

▪Item → Range (default object)

▪Application → Application

▪Parent → Sheet or Range

Count (property, R/O)

Data type: Long

Returns the number of Range objects in the Columns collection – in other words: the number of the columns in the worksheet or range.

Item (pointer to object)

Data type: Object

Returns an individual Range object, i.e. a range that contains one individual column.

Which Range object you get depends on the numeric value that you pass to Item: 1 for the first column, 2 for the second, etc.

Example:

' Set the font for second column in the worksheet to Courier New

pm.ActiveSheet.Columns.Item(2).Font.Name = "Courier New"

Application (pointer to object)

Returns the Application object.

Parent (pointer to object)

Returns the parent object, i.e. an object that is either of the type Sheet or Range .