Chapter 20. PROGRAMMING OFFICE COMMAND BARS AND THE OFFICE ASSISTANT

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Before Access 97, if you wanted to use toolbars and menus in your Access applications, you had to use macros to do it. What's more, modifying the toolbars and menus programmatically was a real hassle—if it was even possible. But now, various Office products are components, and in some cases Office shares those components between products. Office also provides an object called the command bar, and it can be one of three types: a toolbar, a menu, or a popup.

The Office Assistant is a nice feature to help you provide user-friendly help to your ...

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