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I would like the final appearance after my VBA has finished running to be empty of selection -- to have no cell or range on any sheet colored (if it was range selected) or in a bold line box (anything that was selected). Pupose: to present the client with a neat final appearance.

I've searched and cannot find how to do this. There is an Unselect according to MS, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

Select any cell and turn off CutCopy:

  Range("A1").Select

  Application.CutCopyMode = False

There is a tricky way to do it.

Create an object such as a button. Select this button, then hide it, and no cell will be selected.

ActiveSheet.Shapes("Button 1").Visible = True



ActiveSheet.Shapes("Button 1").Select



ActiveSheet.Shapes("Button 1").Visible = False

That's it.

The only answer is to cheat.

Hide column A and row 1

Put cursor in A1. There will be a tiny dot in the corner of B2

Excel always has something selected. A work around is needed. Selecting a cell off screen will set focus there, so that won't work in and of itself. This code places the cursor off screen and then scrolls the sheet back up to view A1.

Sub NoSelect()    

  Range("BB100").Select

  ActiveWindow.SmallScroll up:=100

  ActiveWindow.SmallScroll ToLeft:=44

End Sub

If you are really wanting 'nothing selected`, you can use VBA to protect the sheet at the end of your code execution, which will cause nothing to be selected. You can either add this to a macro or put it into your VBA directly.

Sub NoSelect()

   With ActiveSheet

   .EnableSelection = xlNoSelection

   .Protect

   End With

End Sub

As soon as the sheet is unprotected, the cursor will activate a cell.

Depending on the size of your selection, to get rid of any artifacting (I don't know if this is also an issue in 2013 Excel, but on Mac it was a constant pain for me) you can just loop through cell by cell and select each.

By turning off screen updating before selecting a cell, scroll to selected cells is temporarily disabled.

This code checks which cells are currently visible and selects the first cell below the visible range which is not in view.
Eg, when i try it: Visble range is A1:BC79, so this code selects A80 and scrolling down and to the right and running it again reveals the excel chooses the first cell NOT visible below the first visible column.

Dim r As Range

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Set r = Application.ActiveWindow.VisibleRange

r(r.Cells.Count + 1).Select

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

Very old question, but my answer for reference:

You can use

With ActiveSheet

    .EnableSelection = xlNoSelection

    .Protect

End With