WD98: How to Add a Drop-down Menu to the Main Menu Bar

• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

This article describes how to add a drop-down menu to the menu bar that appears when no documents are open.

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NOTE: The default behavior is to show all menu items when no documents are open.

   Sub AddMenuItem()

      Dim oMainMenuBar As Object
      Dim oNewMenu As Object
      Dim oSubMenu As Object

      ' Save changes to menu bars in the Normal (default) Template.
      CustomizationContext = Application.NormalTemplate

      ' Specify the CommandBar to add to. In this example, the New Menu
      ' item is added to the Word for Windows default menu bar.
      Set oMainMenuBar = CommandBars.Item("Menu Bar")

      ' Create New Menu object and add it to the built-in menu bar.
      Set oNewMenu = oMainMenuBar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlPopup)
      oNewMenu.Caption = "New Menu Item"

      ' Create a submenu item for the New Menu menu item.
      Set oSubMenu = oNewMenu.Controls.Add(Type:=msoBarTypeMenuBar)

      With oSubMenu

         ' Give the submenu item a reference name and display text.
         .Caption = "Sub Menu"

         ' Specify macro to run when user clicks the submenu item.
         .OnAction = "NewMenuMacro"

      End With

   End Sub

   Sub NewMenuMacro()

      Dim myMenuItem as Object
      Set myMenuItem = CommandBars("Menu Bar").Controls("New Menu Item")
      MsgBox myMenuItem.Caption

   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about customizing command bars, click the Office Assistant while in the Visual Basic Editor, type "command bars" (without the quotation marks), click Search, and then click to view the "Using command bars" topic.

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE ID: Q181396
   TITLE     : WD98: Sample Macro to Remove a Submenu from a Menu

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173707
   TITLE     : OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications