XL97: Unexpected Results Using the Caller Property in a Menu

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Caller property in a Visual Basic for Applications macro to determine which menu item has been clicked, you may get incorrect results.

WORKAROUND

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The Caller property for a menu item returns an array of information about that menu item. The fourth element of the array should equal zero. The following sample macro illustrates how to set the fourth element of the array to zero. This emulates the behavior of earlier versions of Microsoft Excel.

   Sub Run_Menu_Item()
       z = Application.Caller
       z(4) = 0
       For Each i In z
           MsgBox i
       Next
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows, Service Release 1.

REFERENCES

For more information about the Caller property, click the Office Assistant in the Visual Basic Editor, type "caller" (without the quotation marks), click Search, and then click to view the "Caller Property" topic.

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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