XL: How to Create Yes and No Buttons for a Custom Message Box

• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Excel for Windows NT, version 5.0

SUMMARY

By default, the MsgBox function in a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure contains a single OK button. However, there are other buttons that you can have displayed in the message box. This article provides a sample Visual Basic macro (Sub procedure) that displays a message box with Yes and No buttons; the article also explains how to retrieve the information about which button a user clicks to dismiss the message box.

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure

   Sub Msgbox_Yes_No()

      ' Displays a message box with the yes and no options.
      Response = MsgBox(prompt:="Select 'Yes' or 'No'.", Buttons:=vbYesNo)

      ' If statement to check if the yes button was selected.
      If Response = vbYes Then
         MsgBox "You selected 'Yes'."
      End If

      ' If statement to check if the no button was selected.
      If Response = vbNo Then
         MsgBox "You selected 'No'."
      End If

   End Sub

REFERENCES

"Visual Basic User's Guide," version 5.0, Chapter 11, Displaying Information with the MsgBox Function"

For more information about Displaying a Message Box in a Macro in Microsoft Excel, version 7.0, 97 or 98, click Answer Wizard on the Help menu and type:

   tell me about a message box

   msgbox

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