FP2000: How to Assign a Macro to a Toolbar Button

• Microsoft FrontPage 2000

SUMMARY

In FrontPage 2000, you can create a button, assign a Visual Basic for Applications macro to the button, and place the button on the toolbar. This article explains how this is done.

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Create the Macro

Sub HelloWorld()
   MsgBox "This is a test"
End Sub 

Create a New Toolbar

1. On the Tools menu, click Customize, and click the Toolbars tab.



2. Click New.



3. In the Toolbar name box, type MyMacros, and click OK.



4. To the right of the Customize dialog box, a small empty box appears. This is the new toolbar that you created in step 3.

Create the Button for the Macro

1. In the Customize dialog box, click the Commands tab.



2. In the Categories list, click Macros.



3. In the Commands list, drag the custom button (identified by a smiley face icon) to the MyMacros toolbar that you created in step 3 of "Create a New Toolbar".



4. Right-click the new custom button, and click Assign Macro.



5. Click the HelloWorld macro that you created in the "Create the Macro" section of this article, and click OK.



6. In the Customize dialog box, click Close.

REFERENCES

For more information about using the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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