Customizing Menus and Toolbars

Manipulating Command Bars Customize: –Right-click any place on a command bar and cick Customize … Customize window: –Toolbars, Commands, Options Moving and resizing command bars Showing and hiding command bars

Showing and hiding toolbar buttons Click (not right-click) the Toolbar Option button Click Add or remove buttons

How to remove “Type a question for help” box With the Customize window open, –Right-click the box –Clear the checkbox next to the Show the Ask …

Changing the Properties of Built-In Buttons Open the Customizing window Select the toolbar from the Toolbar list Right-click the button in the toolbar and choose the property to change: –Name –Change button image –Properties window: ScreenTip OnAction –Macro –VBA function:=MsgBox(“Hello”)

Restoring Toolbar Default With Customizing window open: –Click Toolbars tab –Select the toolbar –Click Properties button –Click Restore Defaults button

Creating New Toolbar With Customizing window open: –Click Toolbars tab –Click the New button –Enter a name –Adding buttons to the new toolbar Click Commands tab Select Categories Select commands Drag the command to the new toolbar

Creating New Button With the Customizing window open: –Click Commands tab –Click File in the Categories box –Click the Custom button –Drag the Custom button to the toolbar –Right-click the new Custom button in the toolbar to change properties: Name Default style Text only Assign hyperlink Properties –Screen tip –OnAction

Creating Menu and Submenu With the Customizing window open: –Click Commands tab –Click New Menu in the Categories box –Drag the New Menu to the toolbar –Right-click the new menu to assign a new name for the menu –Select and drag buttons to the new menu Submenu –Same procedure

Attaching a Customer Command Bar to an Object Forms, reports and Commands have properties to attach a custom toolbar or menu bar.

The CommandBars Collection Application –CommandBars This collection contains: –Menu bars –Toolbars –Shortcut menus –Custom command bars

Access Built-in command bars 1 menu bar named “Menu Bar” 51 tool bars 126 shortcut menus

To Retrieve a Commandbar from the Collection CommandBars(“commandbar name”) Commandbar properties: –Object browser Example: –Private Sub Command0_Click() –CommandBars("menu bar").Enabled = True –End Sub –Private Sub Command1_Click() –CommandBars("menu bar").Enabled = False –End Sub