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Hi All,
I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Andy
I'm not sure if you can autosize a messagebox but you could try something like: Range("A1").Comment.Shape.Width = 150 Regards Rowan "Andibevan" wrote: Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Use a Chr(10), for example
msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to
customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Sorry Bob,
I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Tom,
You may well be right - I seem to remember that you can generate a line of code to generate a userform - am I correct or imagining things? Ta Andy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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When I run that, it all appears on one line !
-- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Generally, you insert a userform and put a label on it. Make it as wide
as you need. then you show the form userform1.show in the initialize event you could do Private sub Userform_Initialize() label1.caption = _ "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" End sub back to the message box, you could try: Sub showmsg() sStr = "Copy Information from:" sStr1 = "C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" MsgBox sStr & vbNewLine & sStr1 End Sub That might work for you -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Tom, You may well be right - I seem to remember that you can generate a line of code to generate a userform - am I correct or imagining things? Ta Andy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Apologies again, I copied the wrong line - it also appears correctly on
mine This one does appear on 2 lines on my screen. MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Parti\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start\blahblahblahblah" Maybe there is a way to turn of word wrapping in a message box? "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... When I run that, it all appears on one line ! -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Thanks Tom - I will have a play around with your suggestion and see how far
I get. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... Generally, you insert a userform and put a label on it. Make it as wide as you need. then you show the form userform1.show in the initialize event you could do Private sub Userform_Initialize() label1.caption = _ "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" End sub back to the message box, you could try: Sub showmsg() sStr = "Copy Information from:" sStr1 = "C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" MsgBox sStr & vbNewLine & sStr1 End Sub That might work for you -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Tom, You may well be right - I seem to remember that you can generate a line of code to generate a userform - am I correct or imagining things? Ta Andy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Guess what - one line for me/
This is how I understand MsgBox to work. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Apologies again, I copied the wrong line - it also appears correctly on mine This one does appear on 2 lines on my screen. MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Parti\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start\blahblahblahblah" Maybe there is a way to turn of word wrapping in a message box? "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... When I run that, it all appears on one line ! -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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I give up - I can only presume that the maximum size of a MSGBOX is
dependent on your screen size and configuration. As a result I will give up on this simple approach and have to do something a bit more involved. Thanks for you help though :-) Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Guess what - one line for me/ This is how I understand MsgBox to work. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Apologies again, I copied the wrong line - it also appears correctly on mine This one does appear on 2 lines on my screen. MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Parti\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start\blahblahblahblah" Maybe there is a way to turn of word wrapping in a message box? "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... When I run that, it all appears on one line ! -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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That may well be it. I have a resolution of 1600x1200 on my laptop, so I get
quite a bit of real estate. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... I give up - I can only presume that the maximum size of a MSGBOX is dependent on your screen size and configuration. As a result I will give up on this simple approach and have to do something a bit more involved. Thanks for you help though :-) Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Guess what - one line for me/ This is how I understand MsgBox to work. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Apologies again, I copied the wrong line - it also appears correctly on mine This one does appear on 2 lines on my screen. MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Parti\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start\blahblahblahblah" Maybe there is a way to turn of word wrapping in a message box? "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... When I run that, it all appears on one line ! -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Remember that providing messages to the user is an
art which must be handled carefully. Everything must go through one of the "media" sensory systems you have available. Right now you are targeting visual messaging. If you must present a great deal of information then creating your own "form" and displaying it is probably the best way to go. If you have only a limited amount to display using the built-in "MsgBox" capability is easier than re-inventing Rome. If you are really "big" into using the "Msgbox" you can use a lot of the "built-in" Microsoft "goodies" to make the "window" look pretty. For example: you can use the "vbTab" and the "vbCrLf" to add both vertical and horizontal spacing. Yes, the size *is* controlled by the size of the user's screen so you really need to plan for the screen of user with *smallest* monitor not the largest. The best thing is to remember the KISS principle when using MsgBox - "Keep It Simple (Stupid)", That way the message shouldn't over-flow the screen display. David "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Thanks Tom - I will have a play around with your suggestion and see how far I get. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... Generally, you insert a userform and put a label on it. Make it as wide as you need. then you show the form userform1.show in the initialize event you could do Private sub Userform_Initialize() label1.caption = _ "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" End sub back to the message box, you could try: Sub showmsg() sStr = "Copy Information from:" sStr1 = "C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" MsgBox sStr & vbNewLine & sStr1 End Sub That might work for you -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Tom, You may well be right - I seem to remember that you can generate a line of code to generate a userform - am I correct or imagining things? Ta Andy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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I am working on a work laptop which is lovely and light but about the size
of a box of matches. Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... That may well be it. I have a resolution of 1600x1200 on my laptop, so I get quite a bit of real estate. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... I give up - I can only presume that the maximum size of a MSGBOX is dependent on your screen size and configuration. As a result I will give up on this simple approach and have to do something a bit more involved. Thanks for you help though :-) Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Guess what - one line for me/ This is how I understand MsgBox to work. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Apologies again, I copied the wrong line - it also appears correctly on mine This one does appear on 2 lines on my screen. MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Parti\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start\blahblahblahblah" Maybe there is a way to turn of word wrapping in a message box? "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... When I run that, it all appears on one line ! -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Yeah, mine is a personal Sony Vaio. It has a bi screen (16"),great
resolution (1600x1200 max), but it is quite heavy. Bob "Andibevan" wrote in message ... I am working on a work laptop which is lovely and light but about the size of a box of matches. Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... That may well be it. I have a resolution of 1600x1200 on my laptop, so I get quite a bit of real estate. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... I give up - I can only presume that the maximum size of a MSGBOX is dependent on your screen size and configuration. As a result I will give up on this simple approach and have to do something a bit more involved. Thanks for you help though :-) Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Guess what - one line for me/ This is how I understand MsgBox to work. -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Apologies again, I copied the wrong line - it also appears correctly on mine This one does appear on 2 lines on my screen. MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Parti\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start\blahblahblahblah" Maybe there is a way to turn of word wrapping in a message box? "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... When I run that, it all appears on one line ! -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Sorry Bob, I think it would be clearer if I gave you the code:- MsgBox "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" When I try this it appears on 2 lines but I want it to appear on one. Any ideas? Ta Andi "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Use a Chr(10), for example msgbox "hello" & Chr(10) & "goodbye" & chr(10) & "taht's it" -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Thanks David,
I am in agreement with you - ideally I would prefer to use message boxes as the information I am trying to display is very simple (the location of a file), the problem is that the on small laptops (like mine) the screen margins cause a wordwrap effect for MSGBOX's (forgive me if my terminology is incorrect but you get the idea). As a result I will probably end up resorting to building a dynamic userform of some sort - like you say I feel like I am going to end up re-inventing the wheel. Andi "David F. Schrader" wrote in message ... Remember that providing messages to the user is an art which must be handled carefully. Everything must go through one of the "media" sensory systems you have available. Right now you are targeting visual messaging. If you must present a great deal of information then creating your own "form" and displaying it is probably the best way to go. If you have only a limited amount to display using the built-in "MsgBox" capability is easier than re-inventing Rome. If you are really "big" into using the "Msgbox" you can use a lot of the "built-in" Microsoft "goodies" to make the "window" look pretty. For example: you can use the "vbTab" and the "vbCrLf" to add both vertical and horizontal spacing. Yes, the size *is* controlled by the size of the user's screen so you really need to plan for the screen of user with *smallest* monitor not the largest. The best thing is to remember the KISS principle when using MsgBox - "Keep It Simple (Stupid)", That way the message shouldn't over-flow the screen display. David "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Thanks Tom - I will have a play around with your suggestion and see how far I get. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... Generally, you insert a userform and put a label on it. Make it as wide as you need. then you show the form userform1.show in the initialize event you could do Private sub Userform_Initialize() label1.caption = _ "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" End sub back to the message box, you could try: Sub showmsg() sStr = "Copy Information from:" sStr1 = "C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" MsgBox sStr & vbNewLine & sStr1 End Sub That might work for you -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Tom, You may well be right - I seem to remember that you can generate a line of code to generate a userform - am I correct or imagining things? Ta Andy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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Resize Message Box
In that case, you *MAY* want to look into finding or
writing a function that takes a long file path and "munges" it down to a pre-defined (by you) limited length and replaces the "replaced portion" with a set of ellipses (you know - "..."). If you pass the file name to that (just before) you pass it to the MsgBox you'll get back a value that will *always* fit. It looks a little odd (MS does/did it quite a lot) but it makes displays cleaner. You get something like: C:\Windows\...\Quid\dev\xy3245\ddl9732.dll C:\Windows\system32\...\xy3245\ddl9732.dll C:\Windows\system32\hokem\...\ddl9732.dll If you set the "length" quite short you could get something like: C:\Windows\...\ddl9732.dll but that may defeat the entire purpose of what you're trying to do. I can't remember what they call this technique other than "munging" although there are other (probably better) names. I wrote one my self once - no don't ask it was proprietary and I can't distribute it, sorry - so it's not that hard to do, just a matter of making sure you get everything handled in the right order. Good luck Andi. David "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Thanks David, I am in agreement with you - ideally I would prefer to use message boxes as the information I am trying to display is very simple (the location of a file), the problem is that the on small laptops (like mine) the screen margins cause a wordwrap effect for MSGBOX's (forgive me if my terminology is incorrect but you get the idea). As a result I will probably end up resorting to building a dynamic userform of some sort - like you say I feel like I am going to end up re-inventing the wheel. Andi "David F. Schrader" wrote in message ... Remember that providing messages to the user is an art which must be handled carefully. Everything must go through one of the "media" sensory systems you have available. Right now you are targeting visual messaging. If you must present a great deal of information then creating your own "form" and displaying it is probably the best way to go. If you have only a limited amount to display using the built-in "MsgBox" capability is easier than re-inventing Rome. If you are really "big" into using the "Msgbox" you can use a lot of the "built-in" Microsoft "goodies" to make the "window" look pretty. For example: you can use the "vbTab" and the "vbCrLf" to add both vertical and horizontal spacing. Yes, the size *is* controlled by the size of the user's screen so you really need to plan for the screen of user with *smallest* monitor not the largest. The best thing is to remember the KISS principle when using MsgBox - "Keep It Simple (Stupid)", That way the message shouldn't over-flow the screen display. David "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Thanks Tom - I will have a play around with your suggestion and see how far I get. "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... Generally, you insert a userform and put a label on it. Make it as wide as you need. then you show the form userform1.show in the initialize event you could do Private sub Userform_Initialize() label1.caption = _ "Copy Information from:- C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" End sub back to the message box, you could try: Sub showmsg() sStr = "Copy Information from:" sStr1 = "C:\Documents and Settings\abevan\My" & _ "Documents\SM Partition\Drive_H\WIP\WIP - Weekly Checkin\Start" MsgBox sStr & vbNewLine & sStr1 End Sub That might work for you -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Tom, You may well be right - I seem to remember that you can generate a line of code to generate a userform - am I correct or imagining things? Ta Andy "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... I believe it can be resized using the windows API, but code I have seen to customize a message box is voluminous - easier to use a userform I would think. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Andibevan" wrote in message ... Hi All, I am trying to display a large amount of information to the user within a message box but can't work out how to specify the width of the box. As the width of the box is too small, my text word wraps whereas I want each piece of information to be contained on a seperate line. Is it possible to set the size of a message box or do I need to use a useform. Would really appreciate it if someone could give me a pointer. Thanks Andy |
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