April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
24h 37m
English
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Chapter 21: Working with Shortcut Menus
In This Chapter
• Identifying shortcut menus
• Customizing the shortcut menus
• Disabling shortcut menus
• Using events with shortcut menus
• Creating a 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 an 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 20, menu and toolbar customizations performed with the CommandBar object appear in the Add-Ins⇒Menu Commands group or the Add-Ins⇒Custom Toolbars group. So, for all practical purposes, the CommandBar object in Excel is now limited to shortcut menu operations.
The new single-document interface for Excel 2013 affects custom shortcut menus. VBA code that creates custom shortcut menus may not work correctly in Excel 2013. I discuss this topic later in this chapter (see “What's different in Excel 2013”).
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 = ...
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