This Blog Post explain you data types in excel macro. Whenever macro code accept input from user or when you assign value to a variable, you need to define type of data to be store in a variable. for example :
dim hindi, eng, math as integer.
Here hindi, eng, math is a variable and integer is a data type in excel macro.
Data Types In Excel Macro ( VBA )
Types |
Size in Bytes |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
Boolean
|
2 | Store a value of True(0) or False(-1). |
|
Byte
|
1 | Contains a Number in the range of 0-255. |
|
Currency
|
8 | Define monetary values in the range of -922,337,203,608,477,5808 To 922,337,203,685,477,5807. |
|
Date
|
8 | Define Combination value that includes both dates and time although you certainly don’t have include both,valid dates range from January,1,100 to December 31,9999. |
|
Double
|
8 | Contains a real number in the range of-1.796313486231 E 308 +0-4.940 656458412437 e-324 for negative value of 4.94065645841247 E-324 to 1.79769313486232 e308 for positive values. |
|
Integer
|
2 | Contains a number in the range of-32,768 to 32-767 |
|
Long
|
4 | Contains a number in the range of-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 |
|
Objects
|
4 | Any objects references. |
|
Single
|
4 | Contains a real number in the range of-1.401298 E-45 for negative values and 1.401298 E-45 to 3.402823 E-38 for positive values |
|
variant
|
16 | Stores any valid numeric data type up to the size of a double. |
Data Types in Excel Macro
