Is the . in .Range necessary when defined by .Cells?

Question

It is pretty much widely accepted that this is not \'best practise\'.

dim rng as range
with thisworkbook    \'<~~ possibly set an external workbook 
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Answer 1

My opinion is slightly different here.

YES it is required. You can't always control where the user may run the code from.

Please consider these few test cases

SCENARIO

Workbook has 2 worksheets. Sheet1 and Sheet2

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TEST 1 (Running from a module)

Both Code give same result

TEST 2 (Running from a Sheet code area of Sheet1)

Both Code give same result

TEST 3 (Running from a Sheet code area of Sheet2)

'~~> This code fails
set rng = range(.cells(2, 1), .cells(rows.count, 1).end(xlup))

You will get Application Defined or Object defined error

And hence it is always advisable to properly qualify your objects so that the code can run from anywhere