Can you post your code? A Long would never appear as a String. There must be
some confusion in the code that you have missed.

You could coerce the String to a Long using CLng but that really should not
be necessary with the proper declaration.

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Vasant


"Lionel Fridjhon" wrote in message
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I have variable that is declared as Long. When I use the
variable in an If statement such as
"If cells(r,c)=variable then"
I get the cell as a number but the variable insists on
appearing in quotes, indicating a string. As a result
the If statement comes out false.

Example If 2501 = "2501" then is false
How can I ensure that the variable is represented as a
number in the if statement so that thje answer is True?

Lionel