What does the keyword Set actually do in VBA?

Question

Hopefully an easy question, but I\'d quite like a technical answer to this!

What\'s the difference between:

i = 4

and

Answer 1

In your case, it will produce an error. :-)

Set assigns an object reference. For all other assignments the (implicit, optional, and little-used) Let statement is correct:

Set object = New SomeObject
Set object = FunctionReturningAnObjectRef(SomeArgument)

Let i = 0
Let i = FunctionReturningAValue(SomeArgument)

' or, more commonly '

i = 0
i = FunctionReturningAValue(SomeArgument)