Hi Sergey,
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>>I tend to declare variables at the beginning. Most often, the process is:
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>>First, I declare the variables I know I'm going to need.
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>>Second, as I work further, if there are variables I didn't anticipate, I go back and add them to the declaration.
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>You don't have to. In January 2002 FoxTalk article An Independence of Declaration Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins published DeclVar program which allows to declare a variable LOCAL using a hot key.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to look that one up (or better yet, bug Andy and Marcia about it< vbg >),