Access VBA "Are You Sure?" MsgBox Helper Function

In this Microsoft Access tutorial I will show you how to create a simple helper function in VBA that lets you quickly ask your users "Are you sure?" with a customizable confirmation prompt, making your code cleaner and saving you from retyping the full MessageBox code every time. You'll learn how to use optional parameters for the prompt and title, set up the function in a global module, and call it from your forms and buttons for easier confirmation dialogs.

Micah from Burlington, Vermont (a Platinum Member) asks: Hey Richard, is there a shorter or easier way to ask the user "Are you sure?" in VBA? I feel like every time I want to add a simple confirmation prompt, I have to type out that whole MsgBox line with vbYesNoCancel and all those options. It gets repetitive and clutters up my code.

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Prerequisites

• Intro to VBA
• MsgBox
• If Then
• Create Function

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