Article ID: 124213
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q124213
SUMMARY
In a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure), to display more than one line of text in a message box, use the line feed character (character code 13) as in the following sample code.
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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Type the following macro into a new module sheet:
Sub Test() MsgBox prompt:="Line1" & Chr(13) & "Line2" End Sub- Run the "Test" macro.
A message box appears with the following text:
Line1
Line2
REFERENCES
For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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