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

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

Using MsgBox to Ask Questions

Everything in this blog so far has concentrated on displaying a message on screen (we haven't been interested in the button the user chooses). But how about this?

This message box allows you to choose YES or NO - the code then detects the button chosen and acts accordingly.

In this case we use MsgBox as a function, not a command. So instead of:

Here MsgBox is used as a command

We have instead:

Here MsgBox is used as a function

Confused? Us too. Even though it's the same word MsgBox, the syntax is very different. The rule is that if you use brackets, you must store the return value in a variable.

The Code to Use MsgBox as a Function

Here is a typical routine to get a message box to appear as a question:

Sub SaveCurrentWorkbook()

'variable to hold the number of the button chosen

Dim ButtonChosen As Integer

'display message box on screen, with YES and NO buttons

ButtonChosen = MsgBox("Do you want to continue?", vbQuestion + vbYesNo + vbDefaultButton2, "Continue?")

If ButtonChosen = vbYes Then

'if the user wants to continue, do something here (here we've

'chosen to save the current workbook

ActiveWorkbook.Save

Else

'otherwise, just leave the subroutine, perhaps?

Exit Sub

End If

End Sub

The combination of symbols and buttons we choose is as follows:

Choice	Why
vbQuestion	To get a nice question mark symbol appearing!
vbYesNo	To get two buttons to appear: Yes and No
vbDefaultButton2	To make sure that if a user chooses Enter, they will by default choose No, not Yes

And that is the full story on the MsgBox command-cum-function!

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

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