XL: Dialogs(xlDialogFont) Changes Normal Style

ID: Q112785

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0, 5.0c
Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 5.0

SUMMARY

When you use the Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFont) built-in dialog box in Microsoft Excel versions 5.0, 5.0c, and 7.0, Microsoft Excel modifies the font of the Normal style of the worksheet, not the font of the active selection.

MORE INFORMATION

In the Microsoft Excel version 4.0 macro language, you can use the following macro code to invoke a built-in dialog box to change the font attribute for the active selection:

   =FORMAT.FONT?()

In the above macro instruction, the question mark (?) tells Microsoft Excel to display the Font dialog box so that you can select the font changes to apply to the active selection.

In Microsoft Excel versions 5.0, 5.0c, and 7.0, the Visual Basic equivalent command is as follows:

   Sub ChangeFontDialog()
      Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFormatFont).Show
   End Sub

This code displays a dialog box that changes the font of the current selection. If you use xlDialogFont instead, you will modify the font of the Normal style in the worksheet.

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REFERENCES

"Visual Basic User's Guide," version 5.0, Chapter 11, "Displaying a Custom Dialog Box," "Displaying a Built-in Dialog Box"

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Keywords          : kbprg 
Version           : 5.00 5.00c 7.00
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999