VBA Excel VerticalAlignment = xlCenter not working

Question

The below code selects the sheet but fails to align the cells to center:

wb.Sheets(1).Columns("A:L").Select
With Selection
    .VerticalAlignment = xlCenter
End With

wb.Sheets(1).Activate
wb.Sheets(1).Columns("A:L").Select
With Selection
  .VerticalAlignment = xlCenter
End With 

Selects the entire sheet but it's not changing the vertical alignment to center.

wb.Sheets(1).Columns("A:L").VerticalAlignment = xlCenter

Does nothing.

I don't want HorizontalAlignment :)

I found out the column has VerticalAlignment set to xlCenter but the Cells underneath the column do not have VerticalAlignment set to xlCenter.

Answer 1

Don't Select and don't work with Selection without a reason. That's Recorder's stuff. It is longer to read, slower to execute, and prone to error.

wb.Sheets(1).Columns("A:L").VerticalAlignment = xlCenter is much better.

If you need to do several things with the same range, then use With

with wb.Sheets(1).Columns("A:L")
      .VerticalAlignment = xlCenter
      .somethingElse
End with