WD: Undocumented MsgBox Type Arguments for Old Dialog Box Styles

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1

SUMMARY

This article describes several undocumented MsgBox Type arguments in the WordBasic macro language. You can use these arguments to create dialog boxes in the same style as those used in Word version 1.1 for Windows.

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The following macro displays the result of each undocumented Type argument:

   Sub MAIN
      For counter = 4096 To 4101
         Print Counter
         MsgBox "test", counter
      Next counter
   End Sub

MsgBox Syntax

   MsgBox Message$ [,Title$] [,Type]