Horizontal Alignment via Text String gives Run-time error '1004'

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Thanks in advance and Season Greetings!

How to set alignment through a text string and avoid getting the error "Run-time error '1004': Application-defined or object-defined error"?

Code is as follows:

VBA Code:
Option Explicit

Sub AlignmentTestDoesNotWork()

    Dim HzAlng As String
    
    HzAlng = "xlRight"
    Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(2, 2).HorizontalAlignment = HzAlng
        
End Sub
 

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VBA Code:
Sub AlignmentTestDoesNotWork()

    Dim HzAlng As Long
   
    HzAlng = xlRight
    Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(2, 2).HorizontalAlignment = HzAlng
       
End Sub
 
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Solution
Try:

VBA Code:
Sub AlignmentTest()
    Dim HzAlng As Variant         'as variant
    
    HzAlng = xlRight              'without quotation marks
    
    Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(2, 2).HorizontalAlignment = HzAlng
        
End Sub
 
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xlRight isn't a string, it's a constant

VBA Code:
Sub AlignmentTestDoesNotWork()

    Dim HzAlng As Long
  
    HzAlng = xlRight
    Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(2, 2).HorizontalAlignment = HzAlng
      
End Sub
This works. Thanks for your help!
 
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