Chapter 23: Working with Shortcut Menus
IN THIS CHAPTER
• Identifying shortcut menus
• Customizing the shortcut menus
• Disabling shortcut menus
• Using events in conjunction with shortcut menus
• Creating a completely new shortcut menu
CommandBar Overview
A CommandBar object is used for three Excel user interface elements:
• Custom toolbars
• Custom menus
• Customs shortcut (right-click) menus
Beginning with Excel 2007, the CommandBar object is in a rather odd position. If you write VBA code to customize a menu or a toolbar, Excel intercepts that code and ignores many of your commands. As I describe in Chapter 22, menu and toolbar customizations performed with the CommandBar object appear in the Add-Ins⇒Menu Commands or the Add-Ins⇒Custom Toolbars group. So, for all practical purposes, the CommandBar object in Excel is now limited to shortcut menu operations.
In this section, I provide some background information about CommandBars.
CommandBar types
Excel supports three types of CommandBars, differentiated by their Type property. The Type property can be any of these three values:
• msoBarTypeNormal: A toolbar (Type = 0)
• msoBarTypeMenuBar: A menu bar (Type = 1)
• msoBarTypePopUp: A shortcut menu (Type = 2)
Even though toolbars and menu bars aren't used in Excel 2010, these UI elements are still included in the object model for compatibility with older applications. However, attempting to display a CommandBar of Type 0 or 1 has no effect in Excel 2010. In Excel 2003, for example, ...
