Application-defined or object-defined error when using .formula - excel

I've been struggling to get a formula typed into a cell on a sheet. it's my activesheet (definitely).
Source is a file with full path. the sheet name is ... and lta_col_letter is the column letter I'm typing the formula into.
ActiveSheet.Range(lta_col_letter & 2).Formula = "=IFERROR(INDEX('[" & Source & "]...'!$G:$G,MATCH(" & versionref_col_letter & "2,'[" & Source & "]...'!$B:$B,0))," & Chr(34) & Chr(34) & ")"
I'm not sure why I'm getting this error. Help please!
EDIT:
Works when I added the missing [ brackets, but when it goes into the cell it adds the file name again after the sheet name and before the cell reference.It looks fine in a msgbox.

Looks like you are missing some opening square brackets around source.
ActiveSheet.Range(lta_col_letter & 2).Formula = "=IFERROR(INDEX('[" & source & "]...'!$G:$G,MATCH(" & versionref_col_letter & "2,'[" & source & "]...'!$B:$B,0)), text(,))"
To examine these types of errors, put a ' before the opening = and run the procedure to put the formula into the cell as a string. Go to the worksheet and perform a visual examination and try to remove the '. Make corrections until you have a working formula then transfer the corrections to the VBA formula string.
Since it seems that you have used an open workbook to retrieve the workbook name into source, you might consider using the Range.Address Property with External:=True to retrieve a fully punctuated external address.
dim sourceG as string, sourceB as string
sourceG = workbooks(source).worksheets("...").range("G:G").address(external:=true)
sourceB = workbooks(source).worksheets("...").range("B:B").address(external:=true)
ActiveSheet.Range(lta_col_letter & 2).Formula = _
"=IFERROR(INDEX(" & sourceG & ", MATCH(" & versionref_col_letter & "2, " & sourceB
& ",0)), text(,))"

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