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I dont know how much anyone knows about VB but I am just putting this question out here. Well my CIS Chairman at my school wants me to make a program to show to the university President and I have procrastinated it to the last minute. Well with the background aside, does anyone know how to dim a variable from a subroutine that can be used throughout the form?...anyone?

This is the first year they are offering a set of VB courses and the teachers have to show progress to keep the program and for some reason she picked me X_X...Well I guess I will keep searchin google for an answer... Im sure there is some way to...