Macros in Excel : Learn Excel VBA : Variables

This is continuation of my earlier posts on

   Macros in Excel : Learn Excel VBA : Objects 
   Macros in Excel : Learn Excel VBA : Methods
   Macros in Excel : Learn Excel VBA : Properties

It is not necessary to declare a variable in VBA, Visual Basic automatically creates storage for a variable on first use in the code. Automatically created variables are of type variant and can contain any type of data. It can be strings, boolean values, object , arrays or numbers.

Simple statement such as given below creates a variable and assigns value to it

 Myvariable = 28 

Similarly you can use different variables in calculation to create another variable for your VBA code. Following code will explain the use of Variables in Excel VBA

Sub Explain_Variables()

Var_A = 10
Range("A4").Select ' Value of Cell A4 is 5
Var_B = ActiveCell

Var_Total = Var_A + Var_B

Range("A5") = Var_Total

End Sub

This code explains that

1. Var_A is declared as constant number in the code itself.
2. Var_B is declared as value in ActiveCell i.e. Cell A4 in this case with Value as number 5.
3. We have used Var_A and Var_B to calculated Var_Total
4. We have used Var_Total to update the value in Cell A5, the result of this code is number 15 in Cell A5