The parenthesis makes excel want to "evaluate" what's inside them. And that
means that tmpname gets passed as just the name (tmpname.value which would
evaluate to something like: =sheet1!$a$1).

So in one case (with the parens) you're passing a bunch of strings to the
collection. In the other (without the parens), you're passing real name
objects--and all their properties.

Kind of close to the difference between

Dim myVal As Variant 'not range!
myval = activesheet.range("a1:a10")
'or
set myval = activesheet.range("a1:a10")

The top creates a 10 row by 1 column array of values.
The bottom assigns a range object to A1:A10. And all those properties are still
available.

(kind of...)

Tim Richardson wrote:

Dave Peterson wrote:
Drop the ()'s around the (TmpName) in the .add line and it'll work ok.


thanks. That worked. But why does this fail:
"myCollection.Add (tmpName) "

and why does this work?
myCollection.Add tmpName

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Dave Peterson