Chip's site has a good explanation of the Item method by Alan Beban:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/cells.htm

In article ,
"D. A. Gray" wrote:

Though I didn't see the original message, my guess is that
Target is the name of a Range object. In any case, your
guess is correct, since cell references are 1 based,
rather than zero based, as are the underlying arrays.