Article ID: 181395
Article Last Modified on 7/13/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q181395
SUMMARY
This article describes how to add a drop-down menu to the menu bar that appears when no documents are open.
MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. The following sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) adds a custom menu item (New Menu) to the main menu bar (Menu Bar), and then adds a submenu drop-down (Sub Menu) to the New Menu item.
NOTE: The default behavior is to show all menu items when no documents are open.
Sub AddMenuItem()
Dim oMainMenuBar As Object
Dim oNewMenu As Object
Dim oSubMenu As Object
' Save changes to menu bars in the Normal (default) Template.
CustomizationContext = Application.NormalTemplate
' Specify the CommandBar to add to. In this example, the New Menu
' item is added to the Word for Windows default menu bar.
Set oMainMenuBar = CommandBars.Item("Menu Bar")
' Create New Menu object and add it to the built-in menu bar.
Set oNewMenu = oMainMenuBar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlPopup)
oNewMenu.Caption = "New Menu Item"
' Create a submenu item for the New Menu menu item.
Set oSubMenu = oNewMenu.Controls.Add(Type:=msoBarTypeMenuBar)
With oSubMenu
' Give the submenu item a reference name and display text.
.Caption = "Sub Menu"
' Specify macro to run when user clicks the submenu item.
.OnAction = "NewMenuMacro"
End With
End Sub
The following sample macro runs when the user clicks the submenu item Sub Menu.
Sub NewMenuMacro()
Dim myMenuItem as Object
Set myMenuItem = CommandBars("Menu Bar").Controls("New Menu Item")
MsgBox myMenuItem.Caption
End Sub
REFERENCES
For more information about customizing command bars, click the Office Assistant while in the Visual Basic Editor, type command bars, click Search, and then click to view the "Using command bars" topic.
For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
181396 WD98: Sample Macro to Remove a Submenu from a Menu
173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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