SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to use Microsoft Excel 2000 constant names to set properties in Visual Basic code, you may receive the following error message:
Type mismatch
For example, if you want to show the
Open dialog box, and you use the following sample code (where the Excel constant is represented by a variable)
Sub Open_Box()
Dim var As String
var = "xlDialogOpen"
Application.Dialogs(var).show
End Sub
you receive the "type mismatch" error message.
WORKAROUND
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To set the Excel constant values to variables in Visual Basic, an integer variable must be set to the value that the constant name represents, as in the following sample code:
Sub Open_Box()
Dim var As Integer
var = xlDialogOpen ' Note the absence of quotation marks.
Application.Dialogs(var).Show
End Sub
When this type of code is run, the
Open dialog box appears as expected.