title: How to make a globally available collection
body: <p>I have a function <code>readLines</code> that reads in 10 lines in an Excel sheet and returns a Dictionary. I want to store the results from this function in a global Dictionary that gets populated at start and then is global available to all other parts of my script.</p>
  
  <p>What I would do in the case of an Integer is to declare the following in an empty module:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Public Cons GLOBAL As Integer = 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however </p>
  
  <pre><code>Public Cons GLOBAL as Dictionary = readLines
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does not work for this.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? </p>