>>How many columns are returned in

lnCols = .UsedRange.columns.count

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>You're right to the target! It's 40 and I just found that chr(64+40) is "h" and not AN as in Excel. So, how can I specify range not using letters?
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>In other words, if I need 40 columns and 10 rows, how can I select this range?
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>Thanks a lot in advance.

UsedRange.Select works fine (except for Arabic problem) Now I'm wondering, if I can always use UsedRange.Select instead of trying to calculate range in my more complex version of the code.