someExcel VBA: Cannot create a range object successfully - vba

Question

This is my first question here, so bear with me. I'm a security consultant working on a huge firewall migration, for which I got my VBA skill from under a thick layer of dust. So far I have managed to get all my issues resolved by searching, but this issue: I get errors when doing exactly how I find it everywhere.
What I want to do:
I have an array that contains (among other things), strings formatted like this: "A3:P59", representing a cell range.
Now, this are ranges within a table. When I get the address of a certain cell in the table, I want to test if it's in that range.
I wrote a test function:
Function TestCellRange() As Boolean
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim cell, rng, test As range
Dim range As range
Dim bRow, eRow As Integer
Set tbl = shRulebase.ListObjects("tblBFFirewallRules")
shRulebase.Activate
With shRulebase
cell = tbl.DataBodyRange(5, 1).Address(False, False) 'it's this command that gives me issues
Set range = .range(.Cells(bRow, 1), .Cells(eRow, 16))
Debug.Print cell
'Set rng = shRulebase.range(range)
Debug.Print rng
Set test = Application.Intersect(cell, range(range(A3), range(P59)))
If test Is Nothing Then
MsgBox ("oops")
TestCellRange = False
Else
MsgBox ("yup yup")
TestCellRange = True
End If
End With
End Function
Now whatever I try, I keep getting blocked on the set range:
set range = .Range("A3:P59") -> will return "object required", on the "set test" line (if i use intersect (cell, range))
Set range = range("A3:P59") -> will return object variable or with block variale not set on the same line
Set range = .range(.Cells(bRow, 1), .Cells(eRow, 16)) -> will step through, but debug.print returns a type mismatch and "Set test = Application.Intersect(cell, range)" returns a "object required"
Any help would be really appreciated...I'm all to familiar with networks ip's and the bits and bytes of it, but here I am a bit out of my comfort zone and I need to finish this by tomorrow :(
Greetings,
Kraganov
EDIT Some More tries:
rng and cell as variant:
cell = tbl.DataBodyRange(5, 1).Address(False, False)
rng = .range("A3:P59").Address(False, False)
Set test = Application.Intersect(cell, rng)
==>I would get objects required
just using rng as range and trying to set it without "set"
rng = .range("A3:P59")
EDIT 2 : I found a way around using the range.
So what I was trying to do, was the following:
I had a table that contains information about firewall rules. However, not every line describes a rule. There are also lines that described the context in which the rules below that line were to be placed.
Outside of the table, aside of those lines there would be a cell with the range of cells for that context. I wanted to use that to describe the context for those rules, if I pulled them.
I ended up looping through the table rows and identifying those specific rows and setting a "context" variable when, a row like that was met.

Answer 1

Try setting the cell as well as following:
set cell = tbl.DataBodyRange(5, 1).Address(False, False)
What is cell? A Range?

Answer 2

You do not need to add 'set' to the range value assignment.
Try just
range = .Range("A3:P59")

Answer 3

Function TestCellRange() As Boolean
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim cellToTest As Range
Dim testResult As Range
Set tbl = shRulebase.ListObjects("tblBFFirewallRules")
Set cellToTest = tbl.DataBodyRange.Cells(5, 1)
'or with one more level of indirection
'Set cellToTest = shRulebase.range(tbl.DataBodyRange.Cells(5, 1).Value)
Set testResult = Application.Intersect(cellToTest, [A3:P59])
If testResult Is Nothing Then
MsgBox ("oops")
TestCellRange = False
Else
MsgBox ("yup yup")
TestCellRange = True
End If
End Function

Answer 4

Thanks to the post of VincentG I found the working solution. Thanks for that.
Function TestCellRange() As Boolean
Dim tbl As ListObject
Dim cellToTest As range
Dim testResult As range
Set tbl = shRulebase.ListObjects("tblBFFirewallRules")
shRulebase.Activate
Set cellToTest = tbl.DataBodyRange.Cells(5, 1)
'or with one more level of indirection
'Set cellToTest = shRulebase.range(tbl.DataBodyRange.Cells(5, 1).Value)
Set testResult = Application.Intersect(cellToTest, range("A3:P59"))
If testResult Is Nothing Then
MsgBox ("oops")
TestCellRange = False
Else
MsgBox ("yup yup")
TestCellRange = True
End If
End Function