How do I close a form

Question

I have a form, which needs to be initialized when I change worksheet. Is their a code which finishes the job: UserForm_Terminate?
:) Søren

Answer 1

Typically the purpose of a Form is to display information to the user and accept inputs. When done the User will close the form with little x or click a Close button on the form which calls
Unload Me
If you want to close the form, perhaps after some sort of timeout, there are different ways depending whether you have shown the Form as Model or Modeless.
If you showed it as Model your code loaded the form is suspended
UserForm1.Show ' code stops here until the form is closed
The only way to close the form is via code in the form, typically called by the user.
Code that's called by buttons in the form works normally, and at any part of that code can branch off and do
Unload Me ' code returns to the line that loaded and showed the form
However things are different with modeless forms
UserForm1.Show vbModeless ' code continues until it terminates
In another routine (not in the form) you can close the form like this
Sub test()
UserForm1.Show vbModeless
End Sub
Sub CloseForm()
Dim uf As UserForm
For i = UserForms.Count - 1 To 0 Step -1
If UserForms(i).Name = "UserForm1" Then
Unload UserForms(i)
End If
Next
End Sub
Note the index of the first userform is zero.
Another and perhaps better way is to set a reference to the form when loading it, and use the same reference to unload it. I hesitate to give an example because it's important to ensure all object references are cleaned up in all scenarios.
Also look at the form's QueryClose event