Microsoft KB Archive/95617

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WD: Undocumented MsgBox Type Arguments for Old Dialog Box Styles

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Q95617

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c, 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1

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SUMMARY
This article describes several undocumented MsgBox Type arguments in the WordBasic macro language. You can use these arguments to create dialog boxes in the same style as those used in Word version 1.1 for Windows.

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"http://support.microsoft.com/directory/overview.asp" The numbers 4096 through 4101 are valid values for the Type argument of the MsgBox command. These values display a variety of dialog boxes in Word version 1.1 style. Such dialog boxes have no control box and are stationary.

The following macro displays the result of each undocumented Type argument:

  Sub MAIN For counter = 4096 To 4101 Print Counter MsgBox &quot;test&quot;, counter Next counter End Sub

MsgBox Syntax
  MsgBox Message$ [,Title$] [,Type] For a list of documented Type arguments, see the MsgBox topic in the WordBasic Programming Language section of the Help menu.

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