Trouble with late-bound functions - excel

Question

Greetings I have the following code:
Private Sub makeNewReports()
Dim wkSheet As Worksheet
Set wkSheet = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Grades")
Dim i As Long
Dim myMap As Dictionary
Set myMap = New Dictionary
For i = 4 To 6 'wkSheet.Range("a1").End(xlToRight).Column - 1
Dim myVals As dateValueItem
myVals.total_value = wkSheet.Cells(2, i)
myVals.items = wkSheet.Cells(1, i)
myVals.student_value = wkSheet.Cells(4, i)
myMap.Add wkSheet.Cells(3, i), myVals
Next i
End Sub
and the following code for dateValueItem
Option Explicit
Public Type dateValueItem
total_value As Long
items As String
student_value As Long
End Type
when I run the above code I get the problem
'Compile Error: Only user-defined types defined in public object modules can be coerced to or from a variant or passed to late bound functions'
I'm trying to map together 3 different values to a specific date; the dates are held in row three. Row 2 and 4 has numerical values, and row 1 has string values. The hope is to be able to organize all of these together so I can eventually connect descriptions and values to dates.

Answer 1

This might be the quickest way. Create a class and name it dateValueItem
Option Explicit
Public total_value As Long
Public items As String
Public student_value As Long
And change your code to
Option Explicit
Private Sub makeNewReports()
Dim wkSheet As Worksheet
Set wkSheet = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Grades")
Dim i As Long
Dim myMap As Dictionary
Set myMap = New Dictionary
Dim myVals As dateValueItem
For i = 4 To 6 'wkSheet.Range("a1").End(xlToRight).Column - 1
Set myVals = New dateValueItem
myVals.total_value = wkSheet.Cells(2, i)
myVals.items = wkSheet.Cells(1, i)
myVals.student_value = wkSheet.Cells(4, i)
myMap.Add wkSheet.Cells(3, i), myVals
Next i
End Sub