First Published 28 Oct 2026

This is a companion to my recent article: Message Box with Position & Zoom

Like the standard VBA message box, input boxes are always centred on the screen, have small font size (8pt?) and cannot be zoomed (other than by using Windows scaling).

With modern monitors and typical resolutions of 1920 x 1080 or higher, the text can be difficult to read comfortably, even for users whose eyesight is reasonably good.

The centred positioning can also mean that users often need to move the message box to one side before acting on its contents.

The InputBoxPZ (position/zoom) function overcomes both of these issues by allowing developers/users to control where a input box opens and to adjust its zoom level.

This project was started by my colleague Xevi Batlle with the assistance of Gemini/Antigravity AI.

I then further modified the functionality to allow the input box to be docked to specific positions on the screen.



The InputBoxPZ function



DETAILS COMING SOON!







Related Article

A very similar function called MsgBoxPZ can be used to enhance/replace the standard MsgBox function by adding the same additional positioning and zoom functionality.

See my article: Message Box with Position & Zoom



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Colin Riddington	Mendip Data Systems	Last Updated 28 Oct 2026

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