Keith R wrote:
Set cell = sheet.Cells.Find(label);
sets your "cell" range to a specific cell where you found the first match

Yes, this should find the first match of "label" on the sheet.

cell = cell.Cells(1, 2) ' one cell to the right
may set your range to a specific cell that doesn't include your match

This is intended. The function looks for the first occurrence of the
"label" argument, and then returns the value of the cell to the right of it.

The point is that I do not want to *prevent* duplicate matches when the
function is called more than once. Instead, I want to make it return the
exact same result each time it is called with the same arguments.

And, just by chance, I have come across the solution: If I change the
line "cell = cell.Cells(1, 2)" to "Set cell = cell.Cells(1, 2)", then it
works. Don't ask me why.

Jens