VBA Excel Range() with Cell argument

When you want to use the Cells property to specify the parameters of the range object (if I remember rightly - I've not been using VBA for some time), then you have to effectively supply two arguments.

So if you want to reference a range object that has only one cell, then you need to write:

Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(1, 1)).value = "Hello World"

When Range is used with a single parameter, the parameter is is interpreted as a range name.

Range(Cells(1,1))

is the same as using

Range(Cells(1,1).Value)

So you will get a result only is the value of Cells(1,1) is a valid range address in A1 style

Only when passed two range parameters are they interpreted as the corners of a range.