Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2007, 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

Getting User Input with Message Boxes and Input Boxes

This chapter shows you how to start adding a user interface to recorded or written code in order to increase the code’s power and functionality.

You’ll learn the three easiest ways of communicating with the user of your code, the two easiest ways of enabling the user to make decisions in a procedure, and the easiest way of soliciting input from the user. Along the way, you’ll see how to decide what is the best way to communicate with the user in any given set of circumstances. This will set the scene for starting an examination of more complex interactions with the user via custom dialog boxes, later in the book.

In most applications, VBA offers up to five ways of communicating ...