Show Method

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

Displays the built-in dialog box and waits for the user to input data. Boolean.

expression.Show(Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, Arg4, Arg5, Arg6, Arg7, Arg8, Arg9, Arg10, Arg11, Arg12, Arg13, Arg14, Arg15, Arg16, Arg17, Arg18, Arg19, Arg20, Arg21, Arg22, Arg23, Arg24, Arg25, Arg26, Arg27, Arg28, Arg29, Arg30)

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

arg1, arg2, ..., arg30    Optional Variant. For built-in dialog boxes only, the initial arguments for the command. For more information, see the "Remarks" section.

Arg1   Optional Variant.

Arg2   Optional Variant.

Arg3   Optional Variant.

Arg4   Optional Variant.

Arg5   Optional Variant.

Arg6   Optional Variant.

Arg7   Optional Variant.

Arg8   Optional Variant.

Arg9   Optional Variant.

Arg10   Optional Variant.

Arg11   Optional Variant.

Arg12   Optional Variant.

Arg13   Optional Variant.

Arg14   Optional Variant.

Arg15   Optional Variant.

Arg16   Optional Variant.

Arg17   Optional Variant.

Arg18   Optional Variant.

Arg19   Optional Variant.

Arg20   Optional Variant.

Arg21   Optional Variant.

Arg22   Optional Variant.

Arg23   Optional Variant.

Arg24   Optional Variant.

Arg25   Optional Variant.

Arg26   Optional Variant.

Arg27   Optional Variant.

Arg28   Optional Variant.

Arg29   Optional Variant.

Arg30   Optional Variant.

ShowShow method as it applies to the Range and Scenario objects.

For Range objects, scrolls through the contents of the active window to move the range into view. The range must consist of a single cell in the active document. For Scenario objects, shows the scenario by inserting its values on the worksheet. The affected cells are the changing cells of the scenario. Variant.

expression.Show

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

ShowShow method as it applies to the CustomView object.

Displays the custom view.

expression.Show

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Remarks

For built in dialog boxes, this method returns True if the user clicks OK, or it returns False if the user clicks Cancel.

You can use a single dialog box to change many properties at the same time. For example, you can use the Format Cells dialog box to change all the properties of the Font object.

For some built-in dialog boxes (the Open dialog box, for example), you can set initial values using arg1, arg2, ..., arg30. To find the arguments to set, locate the corresponding dialog box constant in Built-In Dialog Box Argument Lists. For example, search for the xlDialogOpen constant to find the arguments for the Open dialog box. For more information about built-in dialog boxes, see the Dialogs collection.

Example

This example displays the Open dialog box.

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogOpen).Show