Why does the VBA IDE's Intellisense in Microsoft Word 2007 keep on changing the case of the name of a particular variable type?

Question

This is the most bizarre question I've ever asked. I'm not even sure how to phrase it. I remember something like this happening way back in the VB6 IDE, but I've forgotten the fix. If this is the case, then this is a really old bug in the VB IDE.

Here's the problem:

I'm writing a simple MS Word macro when I accidently typed:

Dim cell as Cell

This activated the dreaded IDE bug. Now, no matter what I do; remove the module, edit it outside the IDE or whatever, the IDE's intellisense formats the variable type "Cell" as "cell"

If I name a new variable:

Dim tcell as Cell

The IDE changes it to:

Dim tcell As cell

This infuriates me to no end. I've tried everything to no avail. This happens even if I edit the module file (.bas) outside of the IDE and reimport it back.

How can I stop this madness?

Updated

Apparently this behavior is not a bug, but by design. See answer.

Answer 1

Try putting a

Dim Cell as Cell

somewhere, then delete it and try again... I seem to recall that variable declarations take precedence in setting the casing, thus this should force the casing back to how it should be...

Answer 2

VB/VBA variable names are not case sensitive so cell and Cell are the same. I would suggest you name your variables something else - I personally use a letter in front: e.g.

Dim sString as String 's for string
Dim iInt as Integer 'i for integer
Dim oCell as Cell 'o for objects

Hope this helps