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Variables and Constants in Excel Visual Basic Part six of an eight-part series of blogs
This blog explains the nuts and bolts of Excel VBA variables, including how to declare them, how to set their scope and all sorts of other tips and tricks. The blog also covers constants in Excel macros. Variables in Excel Visual Basic macros What is a Variable? VBA macro variables. Declaring Variables in Visual Basic for Applications Using Variables (Assigning and Retrieving Values) Forcing Declaration of Variables (Option Explicit) Useful Things to Know about Variables (this blog) The Scope of Variables Constants in Excel Visual Basic for Applications This blog is part of our Excel macros online tutorial series. Alternatively, we run training courses in the UK in Excel and also in Visual Basic for Applications (and are always looking for partners in the US or other English-language countries!).

Variables and Constants in Excel Visual Basic

Part six of an eight-part series of blogs

This blog explains the nuts and bolts of Excel VBA variables, including how to declare them, how to set their scope and all sorts of other tips and tricks. The blog also covers constants in Excel macros.

Variables in Excel Visual Basic macros
What is a Variable? VBA macro variables.
Declaring Variables in Visual Basic for Applications
Using Variables (Assigning and Retrieving Values)
Forcing Declaration of Variables (Option Explicit)
Useful Things to Know about Variables (this blog)
The Scope of Variables
Constants in Excel Visual Basic for Applications

This blog is part of our Excel macros online tutorial series. Alternatively, we run training courses in the UK in Excel and also in Visual Basic for Applications (and are always looking for partners in the US or other English-language countries!).

Posted by Andy Brown on 05 September 2011

Useful Things to Know about Variables

A couple of miscellaneous things which will make your coding life much more efficient!

Moving to and from Variables

SHIFT + F2 and also SHIFT + CTRL + F2are useful keys for moving to and from a variable definition. Here's how they work:

Right-click anywhere on a variable and choose the option shown to go to its declaration (or just click on the variable and press SHIFT + F2).

When you go to a variable's definition, Excel VBA highlights the variable in question:

Excel takes you to the definition of the variable and highlights it.

If you press SHIFT + CTRL + F2 it acts like an undo button for positioning, and takes you back to your previous position in the code, then the one before that, then the one before that, and so on.

What Determines Variable Case?

The case of a variable (whether it appears in capitals, lower case or some combination of the two) is entirely determined by the DIM statement declaring it:

There is no point typing in herorating in the correct case ...

... because Excel VBA will correct it for you when you move off the line.

This means that any changes you make to case in a DIM statement propagate through your entire procedure's code:


Changes you make to a variable here ...	... will apply wherever the variable is used in your procedure

The net effect of the above is that you should type variables in in lower case - it's quicker, and VBA will correct the case for you when you press ENTER.

Parts of this blog
Variables in Excel Visual Basic macros What is a Variable? VBA macro variables. Declaring Variables in Visual Basic for Applications Using Variables (Assigning and Retrieving Values) Forcing Declaration of Variables (Option Explicit) Useful Things to Know about Variables (this blog) The Scope of Variables Constants in Excel Visual Basic for Applications

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