Using Variables from Modules in Userforms

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a good way to effectively be able to use variables in userforms, or allow them to manipulate them, without declaring them public.

I have a sub, which opens a userform, and want to be able to use variables used within the sub. To the best of my knowledge I cannot pass a variable to a userform the way you can from one sub to another.

The way I have been doing this has been simply to declare variables as public variables, but those seem to be not preferred by other programmers and I am looking for a better alternative.

Thanks,
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