MESSAGE

Macro Sheets Only

Displays and removes messages in the message area of the status bar. MESSAGE is useful for displaying text that doesn't need a response, such as descriptions of commands in user-defined menus.

Syntax

MESSAGE(logical, text)

Logical is a logical value specifying whether to display or remove a message.

• If logical is TRUE, Microsoft Excel displays text in the message area of the status bar.
• If logical is FALSE, Microsoft Excel removes any messages, and the status bar is returned to normal (that is, command help messages are displayed).

Text is the message you want to display in the status bar. If text is "" (empty text), Microsoft Excel removes any messages currently displayed in the status bar.

Remarks

• Only one message can be displayed in the status bar at a time. Messages are always displayed in the same place.
• MESSAGE works the same way whether the status bar is displayed or not. You can, for example, use MESSAGE while the status bar isn't displayed. As soon as you display the status bar, you see your message.
• If you display any message (even empty text) and don't remove it with MESSAGE(FALSE), that message is displayed until you quit Microsoft Excel.
• You can also use the ALERT function to get the user's attention; however, this interrupts the macro and requires the user's intervention before the macro can continue.

Example

The following lines in a macro display a message warning that you must wait for a moment while the macro calls a subroutine.

MESSAGE(TRUE, "One moment please...")

Related Functions

ALERT Displays a dialog box and a message

BEEP Sounds a tone

List of Command-Equivalent Functions