Trying to find data in a second workbook using VBA - excel

Question

I have a workbook where I am building an automated e-mail but I want that e-mail to contain data that is stored in a second workbook. Please see my code below, I did change some variable names/data just for confidentiality so hopefully that doesn't make it too difficult to read.
Option Explicit
Sub Button1_Click()
Dim objExcel As Object
Dim wb1 As Workbook
Dim ws1 as Worksheet
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set wb1 = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\wb1.xls")
Set ws1 = wbStoreList.Worksheets("Sheet1")
Dim filePaths As Variant
Dim msg As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim objApp As Object
Dim objMail As Object
Dim fileName As String
Dim emailAddress As String
Dim subject As String
Dim name As String
Dim otherName As String
Dim rowNumber As Range
Set objApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
filePaths = Application.GetOpenFilename(MultiSelect:=True)
If (IsArray(filePaths)) Then
For i = LBound(filePaths) To UBound(filePaths)
Set objMail = objApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
fileName = Dir(filePaths(i))
If (Len(fileName) = 8) Then
emailAddress = "email" & Mid(fileName, 1, 3) & "#emailaddress.ca"
ElseIf (Len(fileName) = 9) Then
emailAddress = "email" & Mid(fileName, 1, 4) & "#emailaddress.ca"
End If
subject = "Confidential"
With ws1
'On Error Resume Next
Set rowNumber = .Range(.Cells(8, 1), .Cells(8, 10000)).Find(What:="311", LookIn:=xlValues).Row
End With
MsgBox rowNumber
dataFound:
objMail.Recipients.Add emailAddress
objMail.subject = subject
objMail.Attachments.Add filePaths(i)
objMail.Body = name & ", " & "(" & otherName & ")" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Please see attached file."
objMail.Display
Next i
Else
MsgBox "No files were selected"
End If
End Sub
The error is on the line with:
Set rowNumber = .Range(.Cells(8, 1), .Cells(8, 10000)).Find(What:="311", LookIn:=xlValues).Row

Answer 1

Not sure if you can directly get the row number like that because rowNumber is a Range (according to your dim statement). Give it a try and break it down into two lines:
Set rowNumber = .Range(.Cells(1, 8), .Cells(10000, 8)).Find(What:="311", LookIn:=xlValues)
and then
If Not rowNumber is Nothing then lngNumber = rowNumber.Row
Note that I am using a new variable which should be of type long.
Dim lngRowNumber as Long
By the way: in your case Integer would actually suffice over Long.