XL97: Cannot Make Changes to Some Shortcut Menus

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

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

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.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

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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

   Sub DelCustom()
       Application.ShortcutMenus(xlWorksheetCell).MenuItems("C1").Delete
   End Sub