WD2000: Adding Built-in List Box to Toolbar Displays Empty List

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you record a macro to duplicate the action of adding a built-in drop-down list box to a custom toolbar, replaying the macro adds the drop-down list box to the toolbar but the list is empty.

For example, you record adding the Insert Merge Field command to a custom toolbar in a mail merge document containing a data source. When you play back the recorded macro and then click the Insert Merge Field drop-down list box to display the list of merge fields, the list is empty.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, you can create a Visual Basic for Applications procedure to "copy" a built-in command to a custom toolbar.

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1. Creating a new custom toolbar.



2. Copying a built-in command to the new custom toolbar.

Sub CopyBuiltInDropDown()

   Dim CopyTo As String     ' Toolbar to copy the control To.
   Dim CopyFrom As string   ' Toolbar to copy the control From.
   Dim CtrlToCopy As String ' The name of the control to Copy.

   CopyTo = "My Merge"         ' Toolbar to copy the control To.
   CopyFrom = "Mail Merge"     ' Built-in toolbar to copy the control From.
   CtrlToCopy = "Insert Merge Field" ' The name of the control to Copy.

   CommandBars.Add(Name:=CopyTo).Visible = True      ' Create new toolbar.
   CommandBars(CopyFrom).Controls(CtrlToCopy).Copy _ ' Copy control.
      Bar:=CommandBars(CopyTo)

End Sub 

1. In Word, display the toolbar containing the control you want to copy.



2. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Customize.



3. Click to select the toolbar from which you want to obtain the control name.



4. On the Commands tab of the Customize dialog box, click Modify Selection.


The name of the control can be found in the Name textbox of the resulting shortcut menu.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

Additional query words: vba

Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: June 15, 1999