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Make Currency Function
Coerce Make Class

Public Function MakeCurrency( _
    ByVal vValue As Variant _
    ) As Variant

"Make String From Currency" or "Coerce Currency To String"
Coerce a Currency value into an 8-character string.
Return an eight-character string containing the in-memory representation of the Currency value vValue.
Inverse of the CoerceToCurrency function.

Examples: 
    MakeCurrency(0) = String$(8, 0)
    MakeCurrency(1) = Chr$(16) + Chr$(39) + String$(6, 0)
    MakeCurrency(2) = Chr$(32) + Chr$(78) + String$(6, 0)
    MakeCurrency(2.5) = Chr$(168) + Chr$(97) + String$(6, 0)
    IsNull(MakeCurrency(Null)) = True
See also: 
    MakeCurrencyFast Function
    CoerceToCurrency Function
vValue: The Currency value whose bytes are to be interpreted as a string. vValue can be a numeric value, a date value, a numeric string, or a date string. Function returns Null if vValue is Null. Function returns an empty string if vValue cannot be fixed up to a number.

Note: This function converts the string representation of the value to Unicode using the default code page of the system.
v1.3 Change: Removed 16-bit support from this function.

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