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Part IV: Communicating with Your Users
Follow along to add a control to the UserForm:
1. Click the Toolbox tool that corresponds to the control you want to add.
2. Click in the UserForm and drag to size and position the control.
Alternatively, you can simply drag a control from the Toolbox to the
UserForm to create a control with the default dimensions. Figure 17-1
shows a UserForm that contains a few controls.
Figure 17-1:
A UserForm
with a few
controls
added.
A UserForm may contain vertical and horizontal grid lines, which help align
the controls you add. When you add or move a control, it snaps to the grid. If
you don’t like this feature, you can turn off the grids by following these steps:
1. Choose Tools➪Options in the VBE.
2. In the Options dialog box, select the General tab.
3. Set your desired options in the Form Grid Settings section.
Introducing control properties
Every control that you add to a UserForm has properties that determine how
the control looks and behaves. You can change a control’s properties at the
following two times:
✓ At design time — when you’re designing the UserForm. You do so manually,
using the Properties window.
✓ At runtime — while your macro is running. You do so by writing VBA
code. Changes made at runtime are always temporary; they are made to
the copy of the dialog box you are showing, not to the actual UserForm
object you designed.