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Selecting the First Cell In a Row

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 25, 2023)
This tip applies to Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Excel in Microsoft 365


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If you need to select the first cell in a row from within your macro, you can do it with the Select method, using either of the following:

Cells(ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Row, 1).Select
ActiveCell.EntireRow.Cells(1).Select

Once executed, the selected cell becomes the first cell (in column A) of the current row. If you run this line while a range of cells is selected, then the cell in column A of the first row of the selection is selected.

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2023-11-26 14:39:13

J. Woolley

The Tip's first sentence should be, "If you need to select the first cell in THE ACTIVE CELL'S row from within your macro...."
Here are two more ways:
    ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.End(xlToLeft).Select
    ActiveCell.End(xlToLeft).Select
The following should be avoided unless you are certain Selection is a Range object and not a graphic object:
    Selection.End(xlToLeft).Select
Window.RangeSelection returns the Window's most recently selected Range object. If the most recently selected range has more than one row and its active cell is NOT in the top row, either
    ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.End(xlToLeft).Select
or the Tip's
    Cells(ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Row, 1).Select
will select the first cell in its top row, but either
    ActiveCell.End(xlToLeft).Select
or the Tip's
    ActiveCell.EntireRow.Cells(1).Select
will select the first cell in the active cell's row.


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