VBA: How to Add New Line to Message Box (With Example)

You can use the vbNewLine statement in VBA to add a new line to a message box.

Here are two common ways to use this statement:

Method 1: Add One New Line to Message Box

Sub MsgBoxAddLine()
MsgBox "This is the first line " & vbNewLine & "This is the second"
End Sub

Method 2: Add Multiple New Lines to Message Box

Sub MsgBoxAddLine()
MsgBox "This is the first line " & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "This is the second"
End Sub

The following examples show how to use the vbNewLine statement in practice.

Example 1: Create Message Box with No New Lines

We can use the following syntax to create a message box that has one long sentence with no new lines:

Sub MsgBoxAddLine()
MsgBox "This is the first line and I wish I could add a second line because this sentence is getting really long"
End Sub

When we run this macro, we receive the following output:

Notice that the sentence in the message box simply starts on a new line once it reaches a certain length.

We can use the following syntax to create a message box that creates a new line after the string “This is the first line”:

Sub MsgBoxAddLine()
MsgBox "This is the first line " & vbNewLine & "This is the second"
End Sub

When we run this macro, we receive the following output:

VBA msgbox with new line

By using the vbNewLine statement, we were able to start a new line in the message box.

We can use the following syntax to create a message box that creates two new lines after the string “This is the first line”:

Sub MsgBoxAddLine()
MsgBox "This is the first line " & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "This is the second"
End Sub

When we run this macro, we receive the following output:

By using the vbNewLine statement twice we were able to insert two new lines in the message box.

This effectively created one empty line between the two strings in the message box.

The following tutorials explain how to perform other common tasks in VBA: