Applescript. Select cell range and copy to clipboard

Hi everyone,
I have been looking at trying to select a range of cells, eg B1 to H40, once selected I would like to copy the selection to the clipboard.
I am having difficulty selecting a range of cells...
any help would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks
Phelix

Prepend my original suggestion to Jerry's and you have what you want:
Make the Summary table reference only that data you want in your summary:
select the table
<JERRY'S SUGGESTION>
Command-C (Copy)
Switch to Preview
Command-N (New document from Clipboard)
Command-S (Save)
</JERRY'S SUGGESTION>
another way to to place the summary table in another sheet. Then you can just print that sheet to PDF by selecting the sheet, then select the menu item "File > Print…", then the option in the "PDF" menu at the bottom right:

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