Point of Changed Type

[yxz152830]

Gurus,
the third default step "changed type" seems meaningless reiterating the data type of the columns. What is the point and what is the possible worst consequence removing it? I always remove it since it makes vba code looks really messy.

 

[RoryA]

If you don't have a Changed Type step (it's not always the third step by the way - it depends entirely on what you are doing), all your data types would be Any, which is not generally good practice. Data sets should have specific types for each field whenever possible.

Not sure where VBA comes into this.