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How to Enter a Second Line in a Message Box

Article ID: 124213

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition

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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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