>>>But declared in the outer scope not the inner
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>Yes, exactly, in that case I would have to do it like that. What you said would probably work if the declare would be inside I assume.

No. You said " I have to initial a variable inside the inner For Next "
My point was that it would not work because it would be out of scope outside that loop....

>In my case, all declarations are set at the beginning of each method in the declaration section.