MXL5: Large Cursor in Edit Box with Multiple Line Height

• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, if you create an Edit Box that is multiple lines of text in height, when you display the dialog box and click in it, the cursor in the Edit Box is the height of the Edit Box instead of the height of a single line of text.

CAUSE

Normally, when you click in an Edit Box in a custom dialog box, the cursor that appears is the height of a single line of text. However, when you run a custom dialog box and you click in an Edit box, the cursor that appears is the height of the Edit Box. This behavior occurs if you haven't selected the Multiline Edit option for that Edit Box.

The Multiline Edit check box on the Control tab of the Format Object dialog box allows you to enter multiple lines of text in an Edit Box. Without this option selected, the text that you enter in the box is displayed as a single line that does not wrap, and the cursor that appears when you click in the Edit box is the height of the Edit Box.

Note that when you click in an Edit Box on a dialog sheet, the cursor is always the height of a single line of text. The behavior described above occurs only when you run the dialog box.

WORKAROUND

To enter multiple lines of text in an Edit Box in a custom dialog box, and to avoid having a tall cursor when you click in the Edit Box, do the following:

1. Select the Edit Box on the dialog sheet.

2. On the Format menu, click Object. Click the Control tab.

3. Click to select the Multiline Edit check box, and then click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For more information about the Edit Box Button, choose the Search button in MS Excel Help and type:

   edit boxes