Set RChk = RTopChk.Offset(6 – CheckRow, CheckCol)
Set RChk2 = Range(RChk).Offset(0, 1) ‘ to return range $AA$23.
‘ one cell to the Right of Z23.
‘ Instead, it returned $U$7 !

what is the value of CheckRow, CheckCol and of RTopChk before the first statement? I would suspect an issue there. Does RChk return Z23 after the first assignment?
I would try assignments to check where I am:
RChk.value = “RChk here”
RChk2.value = “RChk2 here”

Also, I tend not to store ranges. Instead, I store intCurrentRow and intCurrentCol and use cells(row,col) to walk my way up and down the list. This makes it easier to change things in loops.

I took a lot of care to review what I wrote, but what I see in the published window is NOT what I wrote! There are lines missing. … or maybe it’s senility on my part. It seems to revolve around the use of the ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ signs. Is there some reason I shouldn’t be using these in my message? (Not a VBA question.)

Resending:

Don, thanks for your comments. Sorry, I didn’t state my query clearly.

I do actually want to pick up the values in particular cells. It wasn’t working, so, I used the message to see which cells the macro had assigned to be RChk2, RChk3 and RChk4.

In an earlier part of the macro,
>>Set RChk = RTopChk.Offset(6 – CheckRow, CheckCol)<>Set RChk2 = Range(RChk).Offset(0, 1)<<
to return range $AA$23. (ie one cell to the Right of Z23.) Instead, it returned $U$7 !

Thanks very much for taking the time to look at this. GK

PS: I have re-Dim'd the RChk variables on individual lines and it made no difference. But there's something in what you say, methinks. A short test, using Integers, proved this.

I do actually want to pick up the values in particular cells; it wasn’t working, so, I used the message to see which cells the macro had assigned to be RChk2, RChk3 and RChk4.

In an earlier part of the macro,
>>Set RChk = RTopChk.Offset(6 – CheckRow, CheckCol)<>Set RChk2 = Range(RChk).Offset(0, 1)<<
to return range $AA$23. Instead, it returned $U$7 !

Thanks very much for taking the time to look at this. GK

PS: I have re-Dim'd the RChk variables on individual lines and it made no difference. But there's something in what you say, methinks. A short test, using Integers, proved this.

Sub OffTest()

Dim MyRange, RTopChk, RChk, RChk2, RChk3, RChk4 As Range

‘Elsewhere, RChk is set to Z23

RChk = “Z23″

Set RChk2 = Range(RChk).Offset(0, 1)
Set RChk3 = Range(RChk).Offset(0, 2)
Set RChk4 = Range(RChk).Offset(0, 3)
RChk2.Value = “rchk2″
RChk3.Value = “rchk3″
RChk4.Value = “rchk4″

End Sub

At the end of the macro, the values are as follows: Z23 is blank, AA23 has “rchk2″, AB23 has “rchk3″ and AC23 has “rchk4″

Your messagebox line gives me an error. If you want to refer to the variables, I would use a range name (Range(RChk).Offset(0, 1).name = “RChk2″ and then refer to the range name in assignments, row and column, etc.