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Tim Williams Tim Williams is offline
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Default Overflow error

You should specifiy the datatype of the return value, and maybe also dim
your parameters as integer.

The error is because your multiplication is producing a value too large for
the variable's size.


Tim




"Grd" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've created a simple funcion to calculate the volume based on three
inputs,
height, width and depth. I've make the variables bytes. When the result of
the volume is over 255 I get an overflow error. See the function below:

Function volume(height As Byte, width As Byte, depth As Byte)
volume = height * width * depth

End Function
--------------------------
Sub test()

Debug.Print volume(12, 22, 1)

End Sub

Can anyone help with why I'm getting the error. Thanks in advance

Regards
Janet