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    <p>A couple questions about Range.NumberFormat here--hopefully someone has ready answers they can provide, as searching the web is tough with all the generic terms.</p> <p>A little background: I'm trying to eliminate "random" <strong>Error 1004</strong> codes: <strong>Unable to set the NumberFormat property of the Range class</strong> is the message. The error is occurring when I try to set the .NumberFormat of a <em>late-bound</em> object to a named format, mainly working with "General" or "Standard". The object, in 99% of cases is Application.Selection. Also please note, the most common cause of this error--protection on the sheet or workbook--<em>does not apply</em> here.</p> <ol> <li><p>From Excel 2003 to 2007, Microsoft would appear to have introduced a bug in VBA. If in the immediate window I type <code>? Selection.NumberFormat</code> and hit Enter, I get "General". If I do the same thing with <em>certain addins</em> (not all, not predictable) running a macro with a breakpoint, I usually get "Standard". What is "Standard"? Where does that come from? I want to pick up a number format from one cell, and drop it on another; at random moments, I cannot apply "Standard" in this way, and its result is not like General. (In Excel 2003, it never appears in the immediate window, and fails systematically to apply.)</p></li> <li><p>Even if I convert all instances of "Standard" to "General", I still sometimes get an error on <code>MyObject.NumberFormat = "General"</code>. I have read in a couple of places that one is better off applying the underlying format of the named format, i.e. General applies to something (as I suppose standard does); what is the syntax to do that in Excel VBA?</p></li> </ol> <p>Thanks in advance for your help.</p>
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