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The highlighted statement is only valid within a program
and cannot be used in the Immediate window. In general
  ■ The following nonexecutable statements cannot be used
    in the Immediate window:
      COMMON, CONST, DATA, DECLARE, DIM, OPTION, SHARED,
      STATIC, and TYPE
  ■ The following metacommands cannot be used:
      $INCLUDE, $DYNAMIC, $STATIC
  ■ The following other statements cannot be used:
      REDIM, SUB...END SUB, FUNCTION...END FUNCTION,
      DEF FN...END DEF, ELSE IF, END IF, END TYPE
 
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