How do I get a MsgBox to display the value of a string
rather then the string name?

i.e.

Dim sName As String, sDate As String

sName = (Left(Range("B1"), 4))
sDate = "" & Format(DateSerial(Year(Date), Month
(Date) - 1, 1), " mmm yy ")

MsgBox "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

End Sub

and I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

I do not get the values of sName or sDate.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.

The msgbox will display what ever is between the double
quotes. literally.
try this:
msgbox "sName: " & sName.value & " " & "sDate: " &
sDate.value
here i am asking it to display what is between the double
quotes but also deplay the values outside the quotes and
have join every thing with concatenators.
should look like this:
sname: namevalue sdate: datevalue
you might also like to use vbnewline or chr(13) in the
middle to make it look like this:
sname: namevalue
sdate: datevalue

-----Original Message-----
How do I get a MsgBox to display the value of a string
rather then the string name?

i.e.

Dim sName As String, sDate As String

sName = (Left(Range("B1"), 4))
sDate = "" & Format(DateSerial(Year(Date), Month
(Date) - 1, 1), " mmm yy ")

MsgBox "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

End Sub

and I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

I do not get the values of sName or sDate.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.

.

-----Original Message-----
You need to a double quote before and after the &s
like this

MsgBox "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\" & sName & "sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."


"Ronbo" wrote:

How do I get a MsgBox to display the value of a string
rather then the string name?

i.e.

Dim sName As String, sDate As String

sName = (Left(Range("B1"), 4))
sDate = "" & Format(DateSerial(Year(Date), Month
(Date) - 1, 1), " mmm yy ")

MsgBox "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

End Sub

and I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

I do not get the values of sName or sDate.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.


.
Thanks for the help but I still do not get the values.
What I now get is;

C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT

Any other ideas??

-----Original Message-----
The msgbox will display what ever is between the double
quotes. literally.
try this:
msgbox "sName: " & sName.value & " " & "sDate: " &
sDate.value
here i am asking it to display what is between the
double
quotes but also deplay the values outside the quotes and
have join every thing with concatenators.
should look like this:
sname: namevalue sdate: datevalue
you might also like to use vbnewline or chr(13) in the
middle to make it look like this:
sname: namevalue
sdate: datevalue

-----Original Message-----
How do I get a MsgBox to display the value of a string
rather then the string name?

i.e.

Dim sName As String, sDate As String

sName = (Left(Range("B1"), 4))
sDate = "" & Format(DateSerial(Year(Date), Month
(Date) - 1, 1), " mmm yy ")

MsgBox "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

End Sub

and I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Ron Bowman\My
Documents\& sName & sDate & EOM INFO\DATA INPUT."

I do not get the values of sName or sDate.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.

.

.
This gives me an error "Invaild Qualifier"