Excel Select vs Activate

Question

What is the difference between the VBA code wb.Sheets(1).Cells.Select and wb.Sheets(1).Activate?

Answer 1

I found this question while searching, I had the same question. Here is something I noticed:

 Sub Transfer(x As Long)
   Dim Rng, ID as Range
   Dim i, j, n As Long

 Worksheets(5).Activate
 n = Worksheets(5).Range(Range("I88"), Range("I88").End(xlToRight)).Count

Worksheets(x).Select
 Set Rng = Worksheets(3).UsedRange.Find("Element", LookIn:=xlValues).Offset(1, 1)
 Set ElemID = Range(ElemRng.Offset(0, -1), ElemRng.Offset(0, -1).End(xlDown))
 Set ElemRng = Worksheets(3).Range(ElemRng, ElemRng.End(xlToRight))
End Sub

I found that I HAD to put the worksheet.activate (or select) in or the code would run into:

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Run-time error: '1004' Application-defined or object-defined error

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