Excel 2007 Power Programming with VBA (Mr. Spreadsheets Bookshelf)
Overview
In This Chapter
Excel makes it relatively easy to create custom dialog boxes for your applications. In fact, you can duplicate the look and feel of many of Excel's dialog boxes. This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of UserForms.
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Creating, showing, and unloading UserForms
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A discussion of the UserForm controls available to you
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Setting the properties of UserForm controls
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Controlling UserForms with VBA procedures
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A hands-on example of creating a UserForm
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An introduction to the types of events relevant to UserForms and controls
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Customizing your control Toolbox
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A handy checklist for creating UserForms
Excel developers have always had the ability to create custom dialog boxes for their applications. Beginning with Excel 97, things changed substantially - UserForms replaced the clunky old dialog sheets. You'll find that UserForms are much easier to work with, and they offer many additional capabilities. Even though UserForms have not been upgraded over the years , you'll find that this feature works well and is very flexible.