Dialog Constants That Do Not Have an Interactive Dialog (117412)

SUMMARY

Microsoft Excel provides a list of built-in constants that can be used in a Visual Basic for Applications macro to display a built-in Excel dialog box. However, some of the built-in constants will not display an interactive dialog box.

MORE INFORMATION

To see a list of the built-in Microsoft Excel dialog box constants, follow these steps:

In a Visual Basic module, click Object Browser on the View menu.
From the list of Libraries/Workbooks, click to select Excel.
Under Objects/Modules, click to select Constants.

In Microsoft Excel 97, click "XlBuiltInDialog" in the list of Classes.

All of the built-in constants designed to display dialog boxes begin with "xlDialog". Some of the constants listed do not have interactive dialog boxes.

An interactive dialog box is one that allows you to chose options or type information. The dialog constants that are included that do not have interactive dialog boxes are the following:

xlDialogAppMove
xlDialogAppSize
xlDialogErrorbarX
xlDialogErrorbarY
xlDialogFormatMove
xlDialogMove
xlDialogOpenText
xlDialogOverlayChartType
xlDialogPivotFieldUngroup
xlDialogSaveCopyAs
xlDialogSetControlValue
xlDialogSize
xlDialogSplit
xlDialogVbaProcedureDefinition
xlDialogWindowMove
xlDialogWindowSize
xlDialogWorkbookTabSplit

REFERENCES

For more information on using Built-in Constants in Microsoft Excel query in the Microsoft Knowledge Base on the following words:

Constants Built-in Excel WC0993