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Description property (Visual Basic for Applications) |
vblr6.chm1014191 |
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cab35a69-b45a-2d96-f495-2fae208fca6a |
12/19/2018 |
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Returns or sets a string expression containing a descriptive string associated with an object. Read/write.
For the Err object, returns or sets a descriptive string associated with an error.
The Description property setting consists of a short description of the error. Use this property to alert the user to an error that you either can't or don't want to handle.
When generating a user-defined error, assign a short description of your error to the Description property. If Description isn't filled in, and the value of Number corresponds to a Visual Basic run-time error, the string returned by the Error function is placed in Description when the error is generated.
This example assigns a user-defined message to the Description property of the Err object.
Err.Description = "It was not possible to access an object necessary " _
& "for this operation."
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