XL97: Unable to Show UserForms in Other Projects

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

There is no way to directly show a UserForm that is contained in another Visual Basic for Applications project.

RESOLUTION

If you want to show a UserForm that is contained in another project you must either:

• Import the UserForm from the other project.

  -or-

• Reference the other project and call a subroutine (which shows the UserForm) in the other project.

Importing a UserForm from another project

1. In the Project Explorer window, select the Project containing the UserForm you want to export.

2. In the Project Explorer window, select the UserForm you are going to export.

3. If the name of your UserForm is the same as that of any UserForm in the project that is going to import your UserForm, change the name of your UserForm to something unique.

4. On the File menu, click Export File.

5. In the Export File dialog box, select a destination folder for the .frm file, give your file a name, and then click Save.

6. In the Project Explorer window, select the Project that is going to import the UserForm you saved in Step 5.

7. On the File menu, click Import File.

8. Locate and select the file you saved in Step 5, then click Open.

NOTE: If you want any macro code that is associated with the UserForm to also be imported with the UserForm, make sure this code is contained on the UserForm's code module and not simply on a module sheet inserted into the project.

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Referencing Another Project

In this example, the two projects in question will be VBAProject1 and VBAProject2. VBAProject1 is the project that contains your macro code from which you want to display the UserForm in VBAProject2. With this workaround, both UserForms can have the same name because the .Show method will always show the UserForm in the current project.

NOTE: In order to create a reference from VBAProject1 to VBAProject2, the file containing VBAProject2 must be a saved workbook.

1. Make sure the name of each of the two projects in question have different names (as shown in the Properties window for each project).

2. In the Project Explorer window, select VBAProject1.

3. On the Tools menu, click References.

4. In the "References - VBAProject1" dialog box, click the checkbox for VBAProject2 and then click OK.

5. In a module sheet in VBAProject1, enter the following code:

         Sub Test1()
   
             Test2 'call the subroutine in VBAProject2
   
         End Sub
   
   

6. In a module sheet in VBAProject2, enter the following code:

         Sub Test2()
   
             UserForm1.Show
   
         End Sub
   
   

7. Run the "Test1" macro in VBAProject1.

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 Show Method for UserForms, do the following:

1. Insert a UserForm into your project.

2. Click Code on the View menu.

3. On a blank line on the UserForm (code) window type "Show", without quotation marks.

4. Highlight the word "Show" you typed in Step 3 and press F1.