That Dick's
illustrations above do not provide a definitive test (I'm not sure what
does), consider that Range("A1")(1) = Range("A1").Item(1) also returns
True.

Okay, that blows a big hole in my theory. Since I never use that syntax, my
brain must have gotten into a rut which excluded Item as a default property
(of course I use that syntax with Cells, just not Range). Clearly Item is
the default property. But I can't get past the fact that Value is too.

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