Excel: Modifying the Status Bar for a Custom Button

 Last reviewed: December 7, 1994
Article ID: Q84862
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 4.0
  • Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 4.0

SUMMARY

You cannot add custom messages to the status bar when you do the following to manually add a custom button to a toolbar in Microsoft Excel:

  1. From the Options menu, choose Toolbar.

  2. Select Customize menu options.

WORKAROUND

To assign a message or help text to the custom button, you must create a macro that calls the ADD.TOOL() function.

MORE INFORMATION

When a custom tool is manually added to a toolbar, there is no provision for assigning a custom message that would appear in the status bar when the button is chosen. The default message is "Blank tool for assigning a macro." A macro using the ADD.TOOL function must be used to assign a message to the custom button.

REFERENCES

"User's Guide 2," version 4.0, pages 154-188 "Function Reference Guide," version 4.0, pages 11-12

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Last reviewed: December 7, 1994
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