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Variable and Varient

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Thu 8 Jan 2009, 16:31 Delegate Owen said...

Owen has attended:
Excel VBA Intro Intermediate course

Variable and Varient

Whats is the difference?

Wed 21 Jan 2009, 15:56 Trainer Laura said...

RE: Variable and Varient

Hi Owen

Thank you for your question.

A Variant is a type of variable that will allow any type of data from a simple integer to the workbook object to to be stored. It has the disadvantage that you code will be slower if you only use Variants and do not use variable types.

Regards

Laura GB

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