I’ve found a work around for what I want to do, but would like to understand why this doesn’t work.

In a VB Macro Sub I have.

ActiveSheet.Column(9).Select

and it selects the entire worksheet rather than just Column 9?

If I record a macro and select just column 9 I get the above code, so why doesn’t it work stand alone?

try activesheet.Column(9).EntireColumn.select

or activesheet.cells(9,1).entirecolumn.select

something along those lines i think…

also, your line should be

ActiveSheet.Columns(9).Select

i.e Columns, not Column

that should work too.

‘fraid not

Something more subtle is going on, even with the right syntax it selects the entire worksheet.