XL7: Dialog Caption Appears Centered Instead of Left Justified

• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, when you open a workbook that contains a dialog sheet, the caption on the dialog sheet may be centered instead of left justified. This behavior is unexpected, because dialog captions in Microsoft Windows 95 are left justified.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs when you open a workbook that was created in Microsoft Excel version 5.0 for Windows. Normally, in Microsoft Excel version 7.0, when you create a dialog sheet, the dialog caption is left justified. This is consistent with the way that dialog box captions appear in Microsoft Windows 95. However, when you open a workbook that was created in Microsoft Excel version 5.0, if the workbook contains a dialog sheet, the dialog caption on the dialog sheet is centered. This is the way that dialog captions appear in Microsoft Excel version 5.0.

Note that when you run a dialog box in Microsoft Excel version 7.0, even if the dialog box was created in version 5.0, the dialog box caption appears left justified as expected. However, the caption on the dialog sheet remains centered.

In Microsoft Excel version 5.0, the dialog caption is centered on the dialog frame both when you edit a dialog sheet, as well as when you run a dialog box.

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 DialogFrame object in Microsoft Excel, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

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