Thanks, Bernd, we understand. However, still wish they had a worksheet
function that would allow us to indirectly reference the array stored in the
cell versus the modified cell contents.

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"Bernd P" wrote in message
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Hello,

Its simply because A1 does not contain your array, just the first cell
of it.

In my example A1 is containing a string which represents the whole
array but it has to be extracted/interpreted later on...

Regards,
Bernd