XL97: Cannot Make Changes to Some Shortcut Menus

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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

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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.

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STATUS

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

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MORE INFORMATION

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For more information about the support options that are available and about how to contact Microsoft, visit the following Microsoft Web site:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;cntactms) 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

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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kbbug kbdtacode KB158434

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This article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.

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