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    How to allow interaction with a form while Msgbox is displayed

    I don't seem to be able to decipher the Msgbox Help wherein it appears I can include a parameter that would allow a user to continue interacting with a form WITHOUT having to click off the message?



    I thought maybe setting the form's Modal to Yes would "do the trick", but that didn't have any affect.

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    you have to close the message box before you return to the form.

    Alternatively if the message is generated due to a trappable error you might be able to use error handling to do what you require - for example for it to open an inputbox where the user can enter something

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    This is the msgbox function? The message is application modal - you can't do anything in the app until it has been dismissed.
    It reads like you could be referring to a custom message form also. In that case, you make it a popup form, usually with no border but not modal.
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    My normal approach is exactly as you suggest, a popup form. I just got the idea in my head, what's left of it, that perhaps I'd missed something over the years and that there was a way to act on a form while a Msgbox was being displayed. Anyway, thanks to both you and Ajax for your thoughts.
    Bill

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