statement-invalid-outside-type-block.md

title	keywords	f1_keywords	ms.assetid	ms.date	ms.localizationpriority
Statement invalid outside Type block	vblr6.chm1040053	vblr6.chm1040053	287d4cf7-257a-2cc4-2e5d-42e578c8b862	06/08/2017	medium

Statement invalid outside Type block

The syntax for declaring variables outside a Type...End Type statement block is different from the syntax for declaring the elements of the user-defined type. This error has the following causes and solutions:

• You tried to declare a variable outside a Type...End Type block or outside a statement. When declaring a variable with an As clause outside a Type...End Type block, use one of the declaration statements, Dim, ReDim, Static, Public, or Private. For example, the first declaration of MyVar in the following code generates this error; the second and third declarations of MyVar are valid:

MyVar As Double ' Invalid declaration syntax. 
 
Dim MyVar As Double 
 
Type AType 
MyVar As Double ' This is valid declaration syntax 
End Type ' because it's inside a Type block. 

• You used an End Type statement without a corresponding Type statement. Check for an unmatched End Type, and either precede its block with a Type statement, or delete the End Type statement if it isn't needed.

For additional information, select the item in question and press F1 (in Windows) or HELP (on the Macintosh).

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