XL7: New Toolbar Button Properties in VB for Applications

• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel version 7.0, three new toolbar button properties that you can use with Visual Basic for Applications have been added. These properties are as follows:

   HelpContextId
   HelpFile
   StatusBar

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In Microsoft Excel version 5.0, these toolbar properties are accessible only when you initially create the toolbar button. In Microsoft Excel 5.0, you access these toolbar properties through the ToolbarButtons.Add method, which has these property settings as arguments; however, because the properties are not a part of the Microsoft Excel version 5.0 object model, once you set these properties, they become inaccessible and you are unable to edit them.

In Microsoft Excel version 7.0, you can set these properties at any time. To set the status bar text of the first button on "My Toolbar" to say "New Message Here," use the following example:

   Toolbars("My Toolbar").ToolbarButtons(1).StatusBar = "New Message Here"

REFERENCES

For more information about the HelpContextId property, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

   HelpContextId

NOTE: In the "HelpContextId property" topic, if you click "See Also," you can find information about both the HelpFile property and the StatusBar property.