>Then I would expect
>

>oexcel.Range(oexcel.activesheet.cells(7,3)).Select
>

>would work, but it doesn't.

I don't know; I always used .Range on a Sheet object. Also, it requires TWO cells - for instance, one for the upper-right, and one for the lower-left corner of the rectangle you want to select. To avoid repeating a long string several times, I would use (assuming you want a single cell):

with oExcel.ActiveSheet
  .Range(.Cells(7,3), .Cells(7,3)).Select()
endwith

Of course, in this case, it would be easier to just select a single cell - but for generic code, where you don't know the size of the range in advance, this should still work.

Also, of course you can expand the "with" in every case:

with oExcel.ActiveSheet
  oExcel.ActiveSheet.Range(oExcel.ActiveSheet.Cells(7,3),;
   oExcel.ActiveSheet.Cells(7,3)).Select()
endwith

However, since most of the time you will be working a lot with the same sheet, I would create a separate object for the sheet, to avoid unnecessary repetition:

loSheet = loExcel.ActiveSheet
...
loSheet.Cells(...).Value = ...
loSheet.Range(loSheet.Cells(7,3), loSheet.Cells(7,3)).Select()