When I run for example the following code, which I copied from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291308 (the first line anyway), the selection just doesn't work:
ActiveSheet.Cells(5, 4).Select
ActiveCell.Value = "test"
When I useActiveSheet.Cells(5,4).value = "test"
it does work.
edit: the result is it writes test in the cell I had selected before I pressed the button the code is attached to. Hence me claiming it ignores the select.
edit2: a bit of Excel code that runs on another computer doesn't run on this one due to Excel skipping the select part.