I am still trying to understand the thinking behind certain things in VBA.

Can anyone explain why to make a cell bold and italic the following is done:

Range("A1").Font.Bold = True
Range("A1").Font.Italic = True

Rather than:

Range("A1").Font = xlBold + xlItalic

I can see that Bold is just one of the properties of the font and you either
switch it on or off. So the way it is implemented is absolutely logical. But
why is the other way of doing it illogical then?

Geoff