You have to go to the VB programming language reference, under keywords. It
does not pull up from regular help for some strange reason. There are
several of the keywords like that.

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Thanks Jim.

VBA Help was strangely silent on the topic of friend.
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"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Friend is a key word that is used to define scope in declaring procedures.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...59(vs.60).aspx
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Gary''s Student" wrote:

What's wrong with:

Dim friend as String
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