Microsoft KB Archive/161440

= XL97: How to Disable Shortcut Menus =

Article ID: 161440

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 Q161440





SUMMARY
There are many shortcut menus that appear when you right-click an object in Microsoft Excel. For example, if you right-click a worksheet tab, the following shortcut menu appears:

Insert...

Delete

Rename

Move or Copy...

Select All Sheets

View Code

This article lists all of the built-in shortcut menus in Microsoft Excel 97 and provides a sample macro code for disabling a shortcut menu.



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The following table lists all of the built-in shortcut menus and the value of the Index property for each menu.   Shortcut menu              Index property -  Query and Pivot            19 Workbook tabs             20 Cell                      21 Column                    22 Row                       23 Cell                      24 Column                    25 Row                       26 Ply                       27 XLM Cell                  28 Document                  29 Desktop                   30 Nondefault Drag and Drop  31 AutoFill                  32 Button                    33 Dialog                    34 Series                    35 Plot Area                 36 Floor and Walls           37 Trendline                 38 Chart                     39 Formula Bar               40 PivotTable Context Menu   41 Query                     42 Query Layout              43 AutoCalculate             44 Object/Plot               45 Title Bar (Charting)      46 Layout                    47 Shapes                    70 Inactive Chart            71 Excel Control             72 Curve                     73 Curve Node                74 Curve Segment             75 Pictures Context Menu     76 OLE Object                77 ActiveX Control           78 WordArt Context Menu      79 Rotate Mode               80 Connector                 81 &Wizard                   82 Built-in Menus            83 System                    84 NOTE: The list may vary beyond property index #81 based on additional add-ins that are installed and custom menus that exist.

The following macro disables the shortcut menu for worksheet tabs: Sub Disable_Shortcut CommandBars(27).Enabled = False ' You can also use the name of the shortcut menu as in the following ' line of code: CommandBars("ply").Enabled = False End Sub NOTE: To make the shortcut menu available for worksheet tabs, change the Enabled property in the above macro to True, and then rerun the macro.

