Tom, thanks a lot! I solved the problem with your help.

Regarding the philisophy - thanks, I understand now, although it's very
conter-intuitive. If I were MS, I would at least change the default
option to xlMissingItemsNone, because my guess is that this is the vast
majory of cases in practice.

Best -
Andrei





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