title: Using Target to Recognize a Cell Location
body: <p>I run into this issue a fair amount and am curious if someone can tell me why or how I can write this a little cleaner.</p>
  
  <p>Below is my code and it does work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>If Target.Row = rTime.Offset(0, 1).Row Then
      If Target.Column = rTime.Offset(0, 1).Column Then
          cboStatus.Activate
      End If
  End If
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How come I can’t just write it like this?</p>
  
  <pre><code>If Target = rTime.Offset(0, 1) Then
      cboStatus.Activate
  End If
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If target is already a range then why do I need to specify the individual row and individual column? That second code will not work and I have tried many variations of it. I even tried something like <code>If Target.Range = range(“C4”) Then</code> or <code>If Target.Range = cells(4, 3) Then</code>, but neither of those worked either. I tried many variations of similar stuff. Although, I don’t want to use a specific range like <code>A4</code>, since I wanted to use the <code>rTime</code> like what is in the example, but I was just trying to figure this out.</p>
  
  <p>Nothing seems to work, other than specifying the individual row and column each time. Can someone please explain this to me? Also, is there a better way to write this than what I did in the first example, which does work?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for anything that relieves my confusion.</p>