The four ways of referencing a collection (general info):
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collectionname!objectname' Use the exclamation point reference to refer to an object in a collection explicitly by its name. This has the advantage of allowing you to refer to the object using a string expression that evaluates to the object's name.
collectionname("objectname")' Use the index by name reference to refer to an object in a collection explicitly by its name. Similar to the former method, in that, you can create a string variable and use that for the object reference.
collectionname(index)' Use the index by number reference to refer to an object in a collection by the index number assigned to it. [When you know the position number of an object in its collection, you can refer to the object using just the number. Note: Using a For Each. . . Next you can learn the position and/or name of an object in its collection! Remember the collection is zero-based] Looping through the collection is especially useful if turning a property (such as "Lock") on or off for all of the objects.
collectionname(objectvariable)' Use the index by variable reference to refer to an object in a collection by using a string variable to refer to the object.