How do you select the entire excel sheet with Range using VBA?

Question

I found a similar solution to this question in c# How to Select all the cells in a worksheet in Excel.Range object of c#?

What is the process to do this in VBA?

Answer 1

I have found that the Worksheet ".UsedRange" method is superior in many instances to solve this problem. I struggled with a truncation issue that is a normal behaviour of the ".CurrentRegion" method. Using [ Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").CurrentRegion ] does not yield the results I desired when the worksheet consists of one column with blanks in the rows (and the blanks are wanted). In this case, the ".CurrentRegion" will truncate at the first record. I implemented a work around but recently found an even better one; see code below that allows copying the whole set to another sheet or to identify the actual address (or just rows and columns):

Sub mytest_GetAllUsedCells_in_Worksheet()
    Dim myRange

    Set myRange = Worksheets("Sheet1").UsedRange
    'Alternative code:  set myRange = activesheet.UsedRange

   'use msgbox or debug.print to show the address range and counts
   MsgBox myRange.Address      
   MsgBox myRange.Columns.Count
   MsgBox myRange.Rows.Count

  'Copy the Range of data to another sheet
  'Note: contains all the cells with that are non-empty
   myRange.Copy (Worksheets("Sheet2").Range("A1"))
   'Note:  transfers all cells starting at "A1" location.  
   '       You can transfer to another area of the 2nd sheet
   '       by using an alternate starting location like "C5".

End Sub