XL2000: Clicking Cancel Button May Not Dismiss UserForm

When you click a Cancel button in a custom UserForm, the UserForm may not be dismissed as you expect.

This behavior occurs because setting the Cancel property of a button to True does not actually cause the UserForm to be dismissed when you click the button. This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel.

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In addition to setting the Cancel property of the button to True, you must also include the following line of code in the subroutine assigned to the Click event of the button:


For example, if your Cancel button is named "CancelButton", assign the following to the Click event for the button:

To view or edit subroutines attached to a specific button, double-click the button while editing the UserForm in the Visual Basic Editor.

When you design custom UserForms in Microsoft Excel, you can set one command button in the UserForm as a Cancel button. When the UserForm is active, pressing ESC activates the Cancel button, just as if it were clicked.

However, if you click the Cancel button (or press ESC), the UserForm may not be dismissed. To make sure that the UserForm is dismissed, you must also add the code "Unload Me" (without quotation marks) to the Click event subroutine assigned to the button.