Statements or labels invalid between Select Case and first Case

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You can place nothing but a comment between the Select Case statement and the first Case clause. This error has the following cause and solution:

  • You placed a statement between Select Case and its first Case clause. For example:

        Select Case SomeVar 
  ' This is a comment and is valid. 
  Stop ' Even a Stop statement is invalid here. 
  Case SomeValue 
  . . . 
  End Select

    The Select Case statement must be immediately followed by its first Case statement. If the intervening expression is a comment, precede it with a comment delimiter ('). Otherwise, place the expression where it belongs or delete it.

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