[Karin]

Hi,

I'd like to put a message box at the end of a macro indicating that the
macro ran. Can someone help me, I keep getting compile errors.
(Expected =)

MsgBox(prompt:="Verbiage Changed", Buttons:=vbOkOnly, Title:="Finished")

TIA!

[Lene Fredborg]

Leave out the parenthesis:

MsgBox Prompt:="Verbiage Changed", Buttons:=vbOKOnly, Title:="Finished"

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Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
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"Karin" wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to put a message box at the end of a macro indicating that the
macro ran. Can someone help me, I keep getting compile errors.
(Expected =)

MsgBox(prompt:="Verbiage Changed", Buttons:=vbOkOnly, Title:="Finished")

TIA!

[Jay Freedman]

Karin wrote:
Hi,

I'd like to put a message box at the end of a macro indicating that
the macro ran. Can someone help me, I keep getting compile errors.
(Expected =)

MsgBox(prompt:="Verbiage Changed", Buttons:=vbOkOnly,
Title:="Finished")

TIA!

Just remove the parentheses, leaving a space between MsgBox and prompt.

The explanation (sort of) is at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ithArgmnts.htm. By
including parentheses around the parameter list, you're implying to VBA that
it's a function (part 2 of the article), and a function has to be on the
right side of an equal sign so that its return value can be put somewhere.
That's why it says it's expecting an equal sign.

Because you aren't using any return value, you're calling MsgBox as a sub
(part 3 of the article), which means you shouldn't have parentheses.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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