Question

This declaration causes an overflow in VBA:

Const OVERFLOWS As Long = 10 * 60 * 60 

whereas setting the value directly is fine:

Const COMPILES_OK As Long = 36000 

How do you persuade VBA to treat literal integers as longs?

Thanks

Answer 1

Add the long suffix & to at least one number:

Const OVERFLOWS As Long = 10& * 60 * 60 

Note that using the CLNG function to convert the values to long will not work, because VBA does not allow assigning the return value of a function to a constant.