XL: How to Delete and Restore a Menu That Has a Submenu

ID: Q125423

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

In a Visual Basic for Applications macro, if you delete a menu item that has a submenu and you want to restore it, use the Addmenu command, not the Add command. Addmenu adds a new menu (or submenu), while Add adds a new menu item.

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The following Visual Basic procedure restores a menu item that has a submenu.

Sample Visual Basic Procedure

If you want to delete the Protection submenu from the Tools menu, use the following code:

   Sub DeleteIt()
      MenuBars(xlWorksheet).Menus("Tools").MenuItems("Protection").Delete
   End Sub

If you then want to restore the Protection submenu to the Tools menu, use the following code:

   Sub AddItBack()
      MenuBars(xlWorksheet).Menus("Tools").MenuItems.AddMenu _
         Caption:="Protection", restore:=True, before:="Add-Ins..."
   End Sub

REFERENCES

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

Additional query words: 5.00 5.00a 5.00c 7.00 7.00a 97 XL97 XL7 XL5

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Version           : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0c,7.0,97; MACINTOSH:5.0,5.0a,98
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999