Both methods work for me.

If you tried to used

Range("OnSiteRate").value

in a sheet module and the named range "OnSiteRate" was on another sheet,
then you have to qualify it with the sheet name where it exists because an
unqualifed "Range" reference in a sheet module is the same as saying

me.Range

In a general module, you don't have this problem.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"tbone" wrote in message
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I'm not very experienced with Excel VBA yet, so I often use the
immediate window to try out various syntax before coding it up.

I found something that works in the immediate window when nothing is
running:

? Range("OnSiteRate").value

does NOT work when the code is run or in the immediate window with the
code paused due to the error. I found a workaround:

? ThisWorkbook.Names("OnSiteRate").RefersToRange

but I'm curious as to why this doesn't work in both circumstances.

Thanks
tbone