Mastering VBA for Microsoft Office 2016

Chapter 13Getting 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 power and functionality of your macros or applications.

You'll learn the three easiest ways of communicating with the user of your macro, the two easiest ways of enabling the user to provide information to your code, and the easiest way of soliciting input from the user. Along the way, you'll see how to decide what the best way to communicate with the user is 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 Office applications, VBA offers ...