How to Change Msgbox Title in Visual Basic Excel
The various Microsoft Office applications, such as Access or Excel, include a version of the Visual Basic programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). You can use VBA to add custom code to your Excel spreadsheet to greatly increase the functionality of the program. If you need a message box to appear to notify a user when a change is made to the Excel spreadsheet you can use the MsgBox function. You can also change the message box title to personalize the function to your needs.
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Instructions
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Open your Excel spreadsheet. Navigate to the "Developer" tab at the top-right end of the Excel toolbar.
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Click "Visual Basic" to open the Visual Basic for Applications programming window. Scroll through the list at the left side of the window and click the specific sheet of the workbook where the message box needs to be displayed.
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Scroll through any existing VBA code and locate the specific segment where the message box will appear for the spreadsheet's user.
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Create a new message box by using the "MsgBox" function. For example type "MsgBox("Hello", 0)" if you want a message box to appear that says "Hello" and has a standard "OK" button.
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Add a third argument to the MsgBox function to change its title. For example if you want a message box that says "Hello!" and has a title of "Greetings" you would type "MsgBox("Hello!", 0, "Greetings")."
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Tips & Warnings
The second argument you pass to the MsgBox function is a numerical code that determines what type of buttons the message box uses. "0" gives an "OK" button, "1" creates "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, and "3" gives "Abort," "Retry," and "Ignore" buttons.
Just like with any other function you can pass variables to the MsgBox function instead of directly typing out the box's message and title. For example if you have a string variable named "ImportantMessage" that changes throughout the program you could create a message box by typing "MsgBox("Hello!", 0, ImportantMessage)." The message box's title would then display whatever the variable "ImportantMessage" was currently set to.
