WD: How to Create and Display a Custom Dialog Box

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article contains step-by-step instructions for creating and displaying a Visual Basic for Applications custom dialog box (User Form).

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Creating the User Form

1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor.



2. In the Visual Basic project window, click Normal.
   
   Clicking Normal makes the form available to all documents. To create the user form in a custom template, make sure the template is currently open and select the template project name instead of Normal. For example, if the custom template name is "My Template", in the Visual Basic project window select "TemplateProject(My Template)". The user form is available only when the custom template is open, available as an add-in, or attached to an open document.



3. On the Insert menu, click UserForm.



4. Click the TextBox control on the Toolbox toolbar and then click the form.
   
   The TextBox control appears in the default size. Drag a sizing handle to resize the control, or drag the control to move it to a new location.



5. Click the CommandButton control on the Toolbox toolbar, and then click the form.
   
   The CommandButton control appears in the default size. Drag a sizing handle to resize the control, or drag the control to move it to a new location. Repeat this step to add a second CommandButton control.



6. Select the first command button control, and then click Code on the View menu.



7. In the Code window, type "Selection.TypeText TextBox1.Text" (without the quotation marks), so that your code looks like this:

   
   Private Sub CommandButton1_Click ()
      Selection.TypeText TextBox1.Text
   End sub 

   NOTE: When you click this button on the form, the contents of the text box is inserted into the active document at the location of the insertion point.



8. On the View menu, click Object to return to the form.



9. Select the second command button control, and then click Code on the View menu.



10. In the Code window, type "End" (without the quotation marks), so that your code looks like this:

    
    Private Sub CommandButton2_Click ()
       End
    End sub 

    When you click this button after you click the first command button, the form is closed. If you click this button instead of the first command button, the form is canceled.



11. On the File menu, click Save Normal.

Displaying the Form

1. On the Tools menu, point to Macro, and then click Macros.



2. In the Macro Name box, type FillInForm and then click Create.



3. In the Code window, type "UserForm1.Show" (without the quotation marks), so that your code looks like this:

   
   Sub FillInForm()
      UserForm1.Show
   End Sub 




4. Save and close the macro.



5. Close the Visual Basic Editor.



6. You can now run the macro from Word to display the form.

1. Double-click the form.



2. From the Object drop-down list, select UserForm.



3. From the Procedure drop-down list, select Initialize.



4. In the Code window, type the following code:

   
   Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
      TextBox1.Text = "<default text>"
   End Sub 

   where <default text> is the text you want to appear in the text box when the form appears.

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Last Reviewed: July 19, 1999