Is the . in .Range necessary when defined by .Cells?

Question

It is pretty much widely accepted that this is not \'best practise\'.

dim rng as range
with thisworkbook    \'<~~ possibly set an external workbook 
    w         


        

Answer 1

The answer seems to be: only if the code is located in a Worksheet object. I strongly suspect that this is because the Worksheet objects are the only ones that are both extensible and have a Range function. When Range is called from a Worksheet, that object's Range function has scope. When the code is located in ThisWorkbook or a user module or class, the Range function with the closest available scope is the global Range object (assuming of course that there isn't a user defined Range function). That one is tied to the Application, which has to resolve it based on the passed parameters and forward the call to the correct Worksheet.