Microsoft KB Archive/158434

= XL97: Cannot Make Changes to Some Shortcut Menus =

Article ID: 158434

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q158434





SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel 97, when you run a Visual Basic for Applications macro that adds, removes, or modifies menu items on certain shortcut menus, the changes do not appear. The following shortcut menus are affected.   Shortcut menu    xlConstant

Button          xlButton Drawing object  xlDrawingObject Text box        xlTextBox



CAUSE
In Microsoft Excel 97, you cannot make these changes to the xlButton, xlDrawingObject, and xlTextBox shortcut menus. However, if you run a macro that attempts to make such changes, the macro does not fail, and the changes do not appear on the appropriate shortcut menus.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
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In Microsoft Excel, when you click with the right mouse button (right- click) any type of object in a worksheet, chart sheet, or dialog sheet, a shortcut menu appears with commands (menu items) that apply to the selected object.

You can make changes to shortcut menus by using the ShortcutMenus, MenuItems, Add, and Delete methods in a Visual Basic macro. For example, if you want to add a custom menu item to the xlWorksheetCell shortcut menu (the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click a cell in a worksheet), you use the following code: Sub AddCustom Application.ShortcutMenus(xlWorksheetCell).MenuItems.Add _ Caption:="C1" End Sub If you want to delete the same menu item, you would use the following code: Sub DelCustom Application.ShortcutMenus(xlWorksheetCell).MenuItems("C1").Delete End Sub

Additional query words: XL97 97

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