CHAPTER 18
Working with Shortcut Menus
CommandBar Overview
A CommandBar object is used for three Excel user interface elements.
- Custom toolbars
- Custom menus
- Customs shortcut (right-click) menus
When you write VBA code to customize a menu or a toolbar, Excel intercepts that code and ignores many of your commands. 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.
In this section, we provide some background information about CommandBar objects.
CommandBar types
Excel supports three types of CommandBar objects, differentiated by their Type property. The Type property can be any of these...