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Using MsgBox to Display Messages in VBA Macros Part two of a five-part series of blogs
The MsgBox command in Visual Basic for Applications allows you to display basic messages, but you can also make it prettier, and even use it to ask questions or display multiple-line messages! Read on to find out more about this versatile VBA command. Using MsgBox to Display Messages in VBA Macros Displaying Message Boxes (this blog) Joining Bits of a Message Together Customising your Message Box Using MsgBox to Ask Questions This blog is part of our Excel macros online tutorial series. Our main business is running training courses in Excel, courses in VBA and training in many other Microsoft applications.

Using MsgBox to Display Messages in VBA Macros

Part two of a five-part series of blogs

The MsgBox command in Visual Basic for Applications allows you to display basic messages, but you can also make it prettier, and even use it to ask questions or display multiple-line messages! Read on to find out more about this versatile VBA command.

Using MsgBox to Display Messages in VBA Macros
Displaying Message Boxes (this blog)
Joining Bits of a Message Together
Customising your Message Box
Using MsgBox to Ask Questions

This blog is part of our Excel macros online tutorial series. Our main business is running training courses in Excel, courses in VBA and training in many other Microsoft applications.

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 September 2011

Displaying Message Boxes

To display a message box, you'll need to know how it's made up, and the VBA syntax to display it on screen.

Parts of a Message Box

The component parts of a message box are shown below:

The parts of a message box are:

Syntax of a Message Box

The easiest way to see how to create a message box is from the Intellisense offered:

The list of arguments to the MsgBox command

The peculiar argument is Buttons, about which more later in this blog. You can display a message box either by listing the arguments in the right order, or by using named arguments - an example of each follows.

Displaying a Message Box using Positional Arguments

The easiest way to display a message box is by entering the arguments in the right order:

'display a message with an OK button and a title

MsgBox "Cats like plain crisps", vbOKOnly, "Shock claim"

In this case, the arguments are assumed to be in the right order, so we have:

Argument	Name	What it means	Value here
1	Prompt	The message to be displayed	Cats like plain crisps
2	Buttons	The buttons, etc, to display	vbOkOnly
3	Title	The title for the mesage box	Shock claim

Running this macro line would give:

The message box has all of the things we wanted: a prompt, an OK button and a title.

If you want to omit an argument using this method, you must include an extra comma. For example, the following message would not set any value for the Buttons argument:

MsgBox "Hello, World", , "Greeting"

Displaying a Message Box using Named Arguments

if you have the energy, it's better practice to use named arguments:

'display a message using named arguments

MsgBox _

prompt:="Cats like plain crisps", _

Buttons:=vbOKOnly, _

Title:="Shock claim"

This has the advantage of being easier to read - and you can put the arguments in any order.

Parts of this blog
Using MsgBox to Display Messages in VBA Macros Displaying Message Boxes (this blog) Joining Bits of a Message Together Customising your Message Box Using MsgBox to Ask Questions

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