I seem to be having problems with OE lately. The message got sent before I
was finished.

Anyway, a point to make is that Range by itself uses the first Area of it's
Areas collection.
Here's a demo. This has two cells in the Range, ... A1 & D1. One would
think that item(2) should return the number 4. However, it returns 2
because it only looked in Areas(1) and extended its search down.

Sub Demo()
[A1] = 1
[A2] = 2

[D1] = 4

Debug.Print Range("A1,D1").Item(2) ' Returns 2
End Sub

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Dana DeLouis
Using Windows XP & Office XP
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