Phil
Just delete the brackets ... worked for me
Nick

"Phil C" wrote:

Hi Guys

Please help. I am obviously failing to understand something very basic about
MsgBox syntax.
I have only previously used this function to give simple messages to the
user, and provide a single (default) OK button: E.g.

MsgBox "Your time has expired"

I want to add more buttons in due course (Yes, No, etc) but, for now, was
just trying to customise the title (caption) of the the message box:

MsgBox ("Your time has expired",vbOKOnly,"Time expiry notification")

produces a compile error ("expected: =") and I can't make sense of the Help
associated.
I am not including any Help/Context, so have left those options blank

I have tried assigning the message and Title as strings

Dim Msg As String
Dim Title As String
Msg = "Your time has expired"
Title = "Time expiry notification"
MsgBox (Msg, vbOKOnly, Title)

but to no avail..

And
MsgBox (Msg, vbOKOnly, Title, , ,) just produces another type of 'expected'
compile error

Thanks, Phil

PS. Once I have sorted the syntax, I should be able to use 0 instead of
vbOKOnly, 1 for vbOKCancel, etc. Right?