With

Executes a series of statements on a single object or a user-defined type.

Syntax:

With object
    [ statements ]
End With

object

Name of an object or a user-defined type.

statements

optional One or more statements to be executed on object.

The With statement permits a series of statements on a specified object without requalifying the name of the object. For example, to change a number of different properties on a single object, place the property assignment statements within the With control structure, referring to the object once instead of referring to it with each property assignment.

The following example illustrates use of the With statement to assign values to several properties of the same object.

With MyLabel
    .Height = 2000
    .Width = 2000
    .Caption = "This is MyLabel"
End With

Note

Once a With block is entered, object can’t be changed. As a result, a single With statement cannot affect a number of different objects.

With statements can be nested by placing one With block within another. However, because members of outer With blocks are masked within the inner With blocks, a fully qualified object reference must be supplied in an inner With block to any member of an object in an outer With block.

Important

Jumping into or out of With blocks is not recommended. If statements in a With block are executed, but either the With or End With statement is not executed, a temporary variable containing a reference to the object remains in memory until the procedure exits.

Example

This example uses the With statement to execute a series of statements on a single object. The object and its properties are generic names used for illustration purposes only.

With MyObject
    .Height = 100 ' Same as MyObject.Height = 100.
    .Caption = "Hello World" ' Same as MyObject.Caption = "Hello World".
    With .Font
        .Color = Red ' Same as MyObject.Font.Color = Red.
        .Bold = True ' Same as MyObject.Font.Bold = True.
    End With
End With