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 Immediate Window
 
 ■ The Immediate window is used to:
   • Test problematic, debugged, or new code
   • Simulate a run-time error
   • Query or change variable values while running an application
   • Call procedures as you would in code
 
 ■ While working in the Immediate window, you can:
   • Execute one line of code at a time
   • Type or paste a line of code and press Enter to run it
   • Copy and paste code (although you cannot save it)
 
 ■ In break mode, a statement in the Immediate window is executed in the
   context of the halted program. For example, if you type:
 
         PRINT Var1
 
   your output is the value of the local variable Var1. This is the same as
   if the PRINT statement had actually occurred in the procedure you were
   executing when the program halted.
 
 ■ To open the Immediate window, choose Immediate Window from the Window
   menu.
 
 ■ To close the Immediate window, choose Close from the Control menu or
   double-click the Control-menu box.
 
 ■ To see which error message dialog is associated with a given error code,
   type:
 
         ERROR errornumber
 
 See: ◄Immediate Window Keys►