XL97: DocErr: vbMsgBoxHelpButton Not Listed in Help

ID: Q164920

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SUMMARY

The "MsgBox Function" Help topic in Visual Basic for Applications Help is missing information about the new vbMsgBoxHelpButton constant. This constant is required when you want to use a Visual Basic for Applications macro to display the Help button in a message box in Microsoft Excel 97.

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The MsgBox Help topic includes an example that is incorrect; the example does not use the vbMsgBoxHelpButton constant, which is required. To correct the example code in the Help topic, add the constant to the "Style" line of code as follows:

   Style = vbYesNo + vbCritical + vbDefaultButton2 + vbMsgBoxHelpButton

For more information about how to use the vbMsgBoxHelpButton constant, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q164500
   TITLE     : XL97: Help Argument for MsgBox Function Behaves Differently

Additional query words: XL97
Keywords          : xlvbainfo 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999