How to Delete and Restore a Menu That Has a Submenu (125423)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows 95
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows 5.0
This article was previously published under Q125423
For a Microsoft 2000 version of this article, see 213437.

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.

MORE INFORMATION

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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:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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