Microsoft KB Archive/155457

= Public/Global Variables Not Maintained After Error =

Article ID: 155457

Article Last Modified on 10/10/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q155457





SYMPTOMS
When you run a Microsoft Excel Visual Basic for Applications macro that contains a public variable, Excel reinitializes the public variable if an error condition halts the execution of the macro. This is different behavior from earlier versions of Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Applications.



CAUSE
The mode that stops the code execution, but keeps the stack variables was removed.



MORE INFORMATION
In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic for Applications, there is a mode in the internal code that stops the code execution but keeps the stack variables. This is by design of Visual Basic for Applications.

In Microsoft Excel 97 and Excel 98, this mode was removed from the internal code to make it consistent with all other Visual Basic for Applications programs. When Visual Basic for Applications encounters an error that halts a macro, it resets the project stack, including all public variables.

