Microsoft Office

Part VI
Programming Excel with VBA
FIGURE 41.5
A message box with a longer message and a title.
Creating UserForms: An Overview
The InputBox and MsgBox functions do just fine for many cases, but if you need to obtain more information,
you need to create a UserForm.
Following is a list of the general steps that you typically take to create a UserForm:
1. Determine exactly how the dialog box is going to be used and where it is to fit into your
VBA macro.
2. Activate the VB Editor and insert a new UserForm.
3. Add the appropriate controls to the UserForm.
4. Create a VBA macro to display the UserForm. This macro goes in a normal VBA module.
5. Create event handler VBA procedures that are executed when the user manipulates the controls
(for example, clicks the OK button). These procedures go in the code module for the
UserForm.
The following sections provide more details on creating a UserForm.
Working with UserForms
To create a dialog box, you must first insert a new UserForm in the VB Editor window. To activate the VB
Editor, choose Developer ➪ Visual Basic (or press Alt+F11). Make sure that the correct workbook is
selected in the Project window and then choose Insert ➪ UserForm. The VB Editor displays an empty
UserForm, shown in Figure 41.6. When you activate a UserForm, the VB editor displays the Toolbox,
which is used to add controls to the UserForm.
720