What is the difference between .text, .value, and .value2?

Question

What is the difference between .text, .value, and .value2? Such as when should target.text, target.value, and target.value2 be used?

Answer 1

target.Value will give you a Variant type

target.Value2 will give you a Variant type as well but a Date is coerced to a Double

target.Text attempts to coerce to a String and will fail if the underlying Variant is not coercable to a String type

The safest thing to do is something like

Dim v As Variant
v = target.Value 'but if you don't want to handle date types use Value2

And check the type of the variant using VBA.VarType(v) before you attempt an explicit coercion.