On Error Next is particularly nasty because somehow it behaves differently in the windows 8 runtime than the windows 7 runtime: some errors inside DLLs escalate

On Error Next is particularly nasty because somehow it behaves differently in the windows 8 runtime than the windows 7 runtime: some errors inside DLLs escalate into a runtime exception in win8 when they were trapped OK in win7. I wish I didn't know this.