VBC00054 — Invalid outside procedure

Severity: Error · Family: VBC (parser / concrete syntax tree) · Source metadata: VBSyntaxErrorInfo

A statement that runs is written in the declarations section of a module.

The declarations section of a module - before its first procedure - is made of declarations: Option statements, variables, constants, types, enumerations, Declare statements. A statement that runs belongs in a procedure.

MS-VBA reports the same error, with the same message (recorded in Excel).

This code is raised by the parser, at the first statement of each stretch that does not belong there, when the grammar refuses the module.

How it is raised

Situation	Example	Resolution
A statement before the first procedure.	`Debug.Print 1` at the top of a module	Move it into a procedure.
An assignment before the first procedure.	`q = 1` at the top of a module	Declare `q` there, and assign it in a procedure.

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VBC00054 — Invalid outside procedure

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