Because Excel doesn't parse out []( ) as anything meaningful would be my
guess.
Still, I don't know why you would use anything besides

Range("my_rng")(5)



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Tom Ogilvy


Terry von Gease wrote in message
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Assume a named range "my_rng"

One can say: Range("my_rng")(5)
One can say : [my_rng].cells(5)
One can say: Evaluate("my_rng")(5)
But one cannot say: [my_rng](5)

Why is that?

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Terry

"I said I never had much use for one,
I never said I didn't know how to use one."
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