XL: Cannot Generate Static Custom Dialog Boxes

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
• Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Excel for Windows NT, version 5.0
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

In the versions of Microsoft Excel listed at the beginning of this article, it is not possible to generate a static, or unmovable, custom dialog box.

MORE INFORMATION

By design of the custom dialog box system in Microsoft Excel versions 5.0 and 7.0, it is not possible to generate a static dialog box. Therefore, you cannot prevent a user from moving a dialog box by dragging the box's title bar.

Additionally, you can use the DialogFrame.Left and DialogFrame.Top properties to change the position within a dialog sheet of a dialog frame. However, changing these properties does not affect the on-screen position of a custom dialog box when you show it by using the DialogSheets("Dialog1").Show method.

Additional query words: 5.00c immobile nonmoveable

Keywords          : 
Version           : 5.00 7.00 | 5.00
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS 
Issue type        : 

Last Reviewed: April 7, 1999