The characteristic of a variable that determines what kind of data it can hold. Data types include Byte, Boolean, Integer, Long, Currency, Decimal, Single, Double, Date, String, Object, Variant (default), and user-defined types, as well as specific types of objects.

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Data type of the variable; See ( Byte Boolean, Integer, Long , Currency , Single, Double , Decimal , Date , String , Object , Variant , a user-defined type or an object type .)