Closing a Userform with Unload Me doesn't work Closing a Userform with Unload Me doesn't work vba vba

Closing a Userform with Unload Me doesn't work


As specified by the top answer, I used the following in the code behind the button control.

Private Sub btnClose_Click()    Unload MeEnd Sub

In doing so, it will not attempt to unload a control, but rather will unload the user form where the button control resides. The "Me" keyword refers to the user form object even when called from a control on the user form. If you are getting errors with this technique, there are a couple of possible reasons.

  1. You could be entering the code in the wrong place (such as aseparate module)

  2. You might be using an older version of Office. I'm using Office 2013. I've noticed that VBA changes over time.

From my experience, the use of the the DoCmd.... method is more specific to the macro features in MS Access, but not commonly used in Excel VBA.

Under normal (out of the box) conditions, the code above should work just fine.


Without seeing your full code, this is impossible to answer with any certainty. The error usually occurs when you are trying to unload a control rather than the form.

Make sure that you don't have the "me" in brackets.

Also if you can post the full code for the userform it would help massively.


Unload Me only works when its called from userform self. If you want to close a form from another module code (or userform), you need to use the Unload function + userformtoclose name.

I hope its helps