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...