Excel VBA Programming For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 18

UserForm Techniques and Tricks

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating a dialog box: A hands-on example

Working with ListBox controls

Letting the user select a range from a UserForm

Showing a progress indicator for lengthy operations

Creating a stay-on-top dialog box

Displaying a chart in a UserForm

Presenting a handy checklist for creating dialog boxes

The previous chapters show you how to insert a UserForm (which contains a custom dialog box), add controls to the UserForm, and adjust some of the control’s properties. These skills, however, won’t do you much good unless you understand how to make use of UserForms in your VBA code. This chapter provides these missing details and presents some useful techniques and tricks in the process.

Using Dialog Boxes

When you use a custom dialog ...