Microsoft KB Archive/66637

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Last reviewed: November 2, 1994

Article ID: Q66637

SUMMARY
You might want to create a custom dialog box similar to the Input command in Excel, which allows you to select a range on the worksheet with your mouse. However, this selection command cannot be performed while in a custom dialog box in Excel.

Excel custom dialogs are system modal, meaning that they require some action in the dialog box and won't allow any selecting to take place or any menu choices to be available until this happens.

Usually, if an object is system modal, your computer will beep if you try and do anything that is not allowed by the modal object. This is the case with custom dialogs in Excel for OS/2. However, Windows Excel version 2.10d or earlier will not beep or perform the task.

Microsoft Excel version 3.00 has been corrected to beep at you when you attempt these types of actions.
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