ACC: How to Force a New Line in a MsgBox Message

ID: Q90810

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 7.0, 97

SUMMARY

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

If you want to force a new line in a message box, you can enter the message as a string formula and concatenate a carriage return/line feed, Chr$(13) & Chr$(10), in the message where you want to start a new line.

You can also use this technique to provide multiple lines in a text box on a form.

MORE INFORMATION

For example, if you had the message


   Notice: This is an Important Message!

and, you wanted the message to be displayed as


   Notice:
   This is an Important Message!

you would enter the message as a string expression with the following syntax in either a macro or in code:

In a Macro
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Action
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MsgBox
Message: ="Notice:" & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & "This is an Important Message!"

NOTE: You must use the equal sign (=) with the MsgBox action to tell the action that you are using a string expression as the message argument.

In Code
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MsgBox "Notice:" & Chr(13) &Chr(10) & "This is an Important Message!"

NOTE: When using the MsgBox statement or MsgBox() function in code, you do not need the equal sign before the message because this statement/function expects a string expression as the message argument.

NOTE: While this code sample works fine in Microsoft Access 7.0 and 97, you can also use the Visual Basic constant vbCrLf in place of Chr(13) & Chr(10) in this code sample. The line of code would then read as follows:

MsgBox "Notice:" & vbCrLf & "This is an Important Message!"

Additional query words: multiline

Keywords : kbusage McrArg
Version : 1.0 1.10 2.0 7.0 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto