Excel.Application.PreviousSelections.md

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Application.PreviousSelections property (Excel)	vbaxl10.chm133191	vbaxl10.chm133191	Excel.Application.PreviousSelections	967ba122-700c-dca5-1b95-aeaf59e9f19c	04/05/2019	medium

Application.PreviousSelections property (Excel)

Returns an array of the last four ranges or names selected. Each element in the array is a Range object. Read-only Variant.

Syntax

expression.PreviousSelections (Index)

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Parameters

Name	Required/Optional	Data type	Description
Index	Optional	Variant	The index number (from 1 to 4) of the previous range or name.

Remarks

Each time you go to a range or cell by using the Name box or the Go To command (Edit menu), or each time a macro calls the Goto method, the previous range is added to this array as element number 1, and the other items in the array are moved down.

Example

This example displays the cell addresses of all items in the array of previous selections. If there are no previous selections, the LBound function returns an error. This error is trapped, and a message box appears.

On Error GoTo noSelections 
For i = LBound(Application.PreviousSelections) To _ 
 UBound(Application.PreviousSelections) 
 MsgBox Application.PreviousSelections(i).Address 
Next i 
Exit Sub 
On Error GoTo 0 
 
noSelections: 
 MsgBox "There are no previous selections"

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