Option Compatible Statement

Option Compatible extends Office Basic compiler and runtime, allowing supplemental language constructs to Basic.

This statement must be added before the executable program code in a module.

This option may affect or assist in the following situations:

• Allow special characters as identifiers. all characters that are defined as letter in the Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) character set, are accepted as part of identifiers.
• Create VBA constants including non-printable characters.
• Allow the New operator to be optional in Dim statements.
• Allow default values for optional parameters in procedures.
• Use named arguments when multiple optional parameters exist.
• Preload of Office Basic libraries

Option Compatible is required when coding class modules.

Syntax:

Option Compatible

Example:

Special characters as identifiers

        Option Compatible
        ' With this option the code works, otherwise it causes a compiling error
        Sub Main
            ä = 10
            print ä
        End Sub
    

Statement Option VBAsupport 1 implies Option Compatible statement automatically.

Related Topics

• Rem Statement
• CompatibilityMode() Function
• Option Base Statement
• Option Explicit Statement
• Option VBASupport Statement
• Option ClassModule Statement
• Using Procedures and Functions
• Identifying the Operating System