Setting selection to Nothing when programming Excel

Question

When I create a graph after using range.copy and range.paste it leaves the paste range selected, and then when I create a graph a few lines later, it uses the selection as the f

Answer 1

Select any cell and turn off cutcopymode.

Range("A1").Select
Application.CutCopyMode = False

Answer 2

If using a button to call the paste procedure,

try activating the button after the operation. this successfully clears the selection

without

• having to mess around with hidden things
• selecting another cell (which is exactly the opposite of what was asked)
• affecting the clipboard mode
• having the hacky method of pressing escape which doesn't always work

HTH

Sub BtnCopypasta_Worksheet_Click()
   range.copy
   range.paste
BtnCopypasta.Activate
End sub

HTH

Answer 3

I had this issue with Excel 2013. I had "freeze panes" set, which caused the problem. The issue was resolved when I removed the frozen panes.

Answer 4

Just use

SendKeys "{ESC}"

thereby cancelling your selection.

Answer 5

None of the many answers with Application.CutCopyMode or .Select worked for me.

But I did find a solution not posted here, which worked fantastically for me!

From StackExchange SuperUser: Excel VBA “Unselect” wanted

If you are really wanting 'nothing selected`, you can use VBA to protect the sheet at the end of your code execution, which will cause nothing to be selected. You can either add this to a macro or put it into your VBA directly.

Sub NoSelect()
   With ActiveSheet
   .EnableSelection = xlNoSelection
   .Protect
   End With
End Sub

As soon as the sheet is unprotected, the cursor will activate a cell.

Hope this helps someone with the same problem!