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XL97: Run-Time Errors Using UserForms Collection

Article ID: 157496

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q157496

SYMPTOMS

When you refer to the UserForms collection in a Visual Basic for Applications macro, you may receive one of the following error messages:

Run-time error '13':
Type mismatch

-or-

Run-time error '9':
Subscript out of range

CAUSE

The UserForms collection is a collection of currently loaded UserForms; however, it does not provide its list as a property of the collection. Therefore, a statement such as UserForms(1).Show returns run-time error 9. In order to refer to an item in the UserForms collection, you must first add the UserForm list element to the UserForms collection.

WORKAROUND

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To refer to a UserForm within a UserForms collection and return a property or method for the UserForm, use either of the following methods.

Method 1: Create a UserForm Object

The following subroutine displays a UserForm that already is created.

   Sub ShowForm()
       'Create an object called "x" to refer to UserForm1.
       set x = VBA.UserForms.Add("UserForm1")
       'Display the name of UserForm1.
       MsgBox x.Name
       'Show UserForm1.
       x.Show
   End Sub

Method 2: Refer Directly to the UserForm

The following two statements display a UserForm that already is created:

UserForm1.Show

-or-

VBA.UserForms.Add("UserForm1").Show

Method 3: Reference the Item Property (index) of the UserForm

The following subroutine displays a UserForm that already is created.

   Sub ShowForm()

       'Open UserForm1 into memory.
       Load UserForm1
       'Count the loaded UserForms and subtract one
       'because UserForm indexes start at zero.
       x = UserForms.Count - 1
       'Show UserForm1.
       UserForms.Item(x).Show

   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For more information about the UserForms collection, click the Index tab in Visual Basic Help, type the following text

UserForms collection

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "UserForm Object, UserForms Collection" topic.

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