Sharing Custom Menus & Their Macros
Aug 26, 2008
Our ERP system generates reports in CSV. I have created a custom excel menu, which houses a lot of buttons that launch various macros to format these reports. I have been asked to share these formatting macros with other users.
I understand that the custom menu structures are stored in an excel11.xlb file. My thought was to simply replace the users *.xlb file. This only half worked. I get the menus and the macros, but when the users try to run the macros from the menu excel can't find them because the path is pointing to my user name.
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Jun 9, 2008
I am using the following code to create a custom command menu.
Sub AddMenus()
Dim cMenu1 As CommandBarControl
Dim cbMainMenuBar As CommandBar
Dim iHelpMenu As Integer
Dim cbcCustomMenu As CommandBarControl
On Error Resume Next
Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Controls("&New Menu").Delete
On Error Goto 0
Set cbMainMenuBar = Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar")..........................
I want to add a new button control at the bottom of the menu underneath the holiday control but it keeps adding it on the sub menu, which leads off the holiday button control. I want the menu to look like this.
Open Net 2 Access
Add Employee
Edit Employee
Delete Employee
Holidays (3 options on sub menu)
*New Control
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Feb 3, 2010
From this link: [url]
there is some clever code to create a customized menu in a dynamic Add-Ins section of the Excel ribbon; this section disappears when the workbook is deactivated and re-appears when it is activated. The custom menu has 2 main items each of which can launch a macro. There is also a 3rd main item called "Next Menu" which cascades nicely to a sub-menu. That sub-menu can have several items of its own. Very cool code.
However, I am trying to add a 4th item in the main menu, say, "Next Menu2" which also cascades to a sub-menu. The problem I'm having is when I try to replicate this code to accomplish this, "Next Menu2" appears in the sub-menu of "Next Menu", rather than as a separate (4th) main item below "Next Menu".
I believe there was another post (not sure of the date, but has since expired) which asked basically the same question as mine. There was a reply with code saying "This should work" but when I tried it, it didn't help.
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Jan 15, 2014
Is there a way I can share the workbooks with macros built in the excel file?
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Jan 12, 2010
Ok, so I have this neat little macro that on right-click brings up a custom context menu that displays a few different options - for example one such function is simply copying the selected cell content to a (specific) different sheet. It is a very useful feature in the context I am normally using it to merge information from different locations in a new structure (well, I think this is irrelevant, but just letting you know basically what I am doing).
Anyhow, to implement the custom context menu, I am using events in the ThisWorkbook object, namely Activate to add context menu entries and DeActivate to remove them if switching workbook.
Now, if I receive any workbook from someone else, I'd like to add this feature to get the custom context menu easily without having to copy the received workbook into a new workbook (it's a bit of a hassle, and ideally, if the received workbook has any other macros, this function could just be merged). I was thinking using an add-in to achieve this, but using the ThisWorkbook events in the add-in doesn't trigger the events (I guess because the hidden workbook in the add-in is never "Activated" or "DeActivated").
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Sep 24, 2008
There was an article in ozgrid new about excel custom toolbars (<<hover over). The article addressed making the custom menu option available in one workbook with Private Sub Worksheet modules as follows
Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Controls _
("My Menu").Enabled = True
End Sub
Private Sub Worksheet_Deactivate()
Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Controls _
("My Menu").Enabled = False
End Sub
How do you get the first module to run apon opening the workbook and the second module to run when you close the workbook.
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Apr 19, 2007
I was reviewing the "Create Custom Menu Items in Excel VBA" code located at [url] and cannot figure out something. How do I add a menu dropdown that contains MORE than one submenu item? This is the code my question pertains to: ...
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Feb 6, 2009
We are currently on Office 2000, but our IT group are considering a company wide switch to 2007. I've played around with it just briefly, but noticed that it is night and day difference in both look and feel.
We use Hyperion Essbase, and have a custome built planning tool that utilizes Excel 2000, enhaced with a few thousand lines of VBA coding. One of the main purposes of the VBA code, is to control the Excel menus and replace with custom built menus that are specific to our Planning System.
Does anyone have any idea if VBA controlled custom menus from Excel 2000 will even work in 2007? Will I have to do complete rewrite?
One last question, If you are running 2007, is there a transition function (simlar) to prior versions, where you make the menus look like the legacy version?
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Apr 3, 2008
Using example code from Adding Custom Menus, I now have functional menu items that call my macros appropriately. The example also contains code to add or remove a menu conditional on its window being active. What I need is a slight variant on this but not quite obvious to my novice brain.
The add and remove menu code is now stored in my personal.xls file. However, I need that the condition check that a key string be present in the name of the active window, not the file where the macro is stored.
Thus, if the front window is of the file named MyData, then the special menus get added (the conditional string is "MyData"). If the window is named YourData, the special menus get removed. Note, neither of these two files contain any macros.
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Sep 14, 2007
I tried to create a custom menu for a specific file. However, after creating the menu, I posted the file in Sharepoint. When a user download the file from the sharepoint site, the custom menu doesn't work because it is looking for the macro links from my computer. Another problem is that now the custom menu shows up in all other excel files that I open.
My questions are:
1. How do I do it so that the custom menu shows up only when this file is opened up.
2. How do I go about making the menu to look for the macros embeded in the file itself instead of looking for it in my file folder.
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Feb 15, 2010
Created a new tab and menu buttons on the Ribbon in Excel in 3 separate .xltm files. Everything worked great through all of the development and testing, but when we went live we got reports of a bug. Here is what is happening...
User opens the template file and immediately saves it as a .xlsm file with a new name in a new location. The user then does various amounts of work in the file. When the user needs to use one of the tools on the custom tab, it is as if the buttons are inactive or not associated with any actions. The tab and buttons are all visible, the animation of the button being pressed works when any of the buttons are clicked, but nothing happens. The user can close and reopen the file and the ribbon buttons will work correctly, but not until they close and reopen.
Upon digging into the problem, we found that if the user clicks on the custom tab before they save the file, all of the buttons will work correctly after the save. But if the tab is not activated before the save, they dont work until a close and reopen.
The XML code is good because if I place it in a add on file (.xlam) and trigger it from the main file, there is no problem. But this is not a good solution since the add on file needs to be located in the same file that the main file is run from which can be any number of places.
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Jan 17, 2009
I am wondering how to create a macro that will untick boxes as well reset drop down menus.
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Oct 6, 2009
A couple years ago i made a giant spreadsheet and had 2 custom toolbars to run macros from to manipulate the sheet.
This year i re-did the sheet, meaning all my old data was replaced (it's a giant schedule basically).
However, the Macros in the custom toolbars stayed exactly the same and performed the same function and are directed to the exact same cells, rows, columns, etc..
But now when i hit the buttons on the custom toolbars to run my macros, i get the following message... all the time...
**
A document with the name "NHLsheet.xls" is already open. You cannot open two documents
with the same name, even if the documents are in different folders.
To open the second document, either close the document that's currently open, or rename one of the documents.
**
Trouble is, i have only 1 document open!
There's something in the macros that thinks i'm trying to open a new document but i'm clueless as to where or why.. they are very simple macros
that do not require the opening of any new workbooks..
All they do is point to another sheet within my open workbook, "NHLsheet", copy a particular row from that sheet, and paste it to a specific spot onto another sheet within my workbook, "NHLsheet".
Here is a sample:
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Jan 6, 2013
I want to create a custom tool bar for a work book but when I right click in the unused part of the tool bar area the only options I get are customize Quick access tool bar and customize the ribbon.
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Oct 23, 2007
I have a custom function that is interferring with VBA. If I remove the function the VBA works fine, if I put it back to do what it needs to do, the VBA does absolutely nothing. Any ideas on how to make things work together? Here is the custom function and it is in a module where the VBA that isn't working is in the main Workbook page, but it is a Worksheet Change VBA affecting the same page as the custom function.
Function Sum_Visible_Cells(Cells_To_Sum As Object)
Application.Volatile
For Each Cell In Cells_To_Sum
If Cell.Rows.Hidden = False Then
If Cell.Columns.Hidden = False Then
total = total + Cell.Value
End If
End If
Next
Sum_Visible_Cells = total
End Function
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Oct 4, 2007
I want to create a submenu to an already existing user defined menu.
After creating and saving the sub menu using Tools ->Customize ,it works fine. But when
I reopen the Excel sheet it is not found.
I could not find any macro related to the original User menu.Also this menu gets displayed after the AUTO OPen macro in my excel has worked. This menu gets displayed for only that workbook and not for others.
I have been trying to find out a way to create Sub menu for that ,but could not?
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Aug 19, 2014
I currently have an excel workbook (2010) in which I created a custom ribbon and assigned several different macros to the buttons.
Long story short, I will be saving several variations of this workbook every so often when I get new data.
The problem is that if I change the name of the file (Save as or Rename), the custom ribbon buttons no longer work. When I assigned the macros to the ribbon buttons, the macros were absolutely assigned.
Is it possible to assign relative macros to custom ribbons?
From research I have done, it appears that custom ribbons cannot be created using VBA. Is this still true?
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Sep 25, 2008
When I go one column and Click custom filter and give the command one number and or another numbers ( I Have attached an excel sheet with screen shot) This filters the data, and I need to copy the same and paste in the next sheet.
I have to do like this for about 20 times for 20 sets of data). I have already done this and pasted the data in sheet2. I did everything manually. ( sample sheet is attached) I need a macro to do this work for me.
When I run the macro If get 2 text boxes I can enter the numbers. and click ok,the data has to filtered in sheet1, and result has to be pasted in the next sheet.with the header. Again I will run the macro i will give 2 numbers and the result should be pasted in sheet 2 after the 1st set of data leaveing one row as blank. ( exactly like the sample data in sheet 2). If I run the macro for 10 times giving 10 different numbers, the result should be pasted one after the other in sheet 2.
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May 5, 2009
I am having trouble sharing an Excel Add-in I've created which contains three macros (modules). I have looked everywhere but, oddly, I can't seem to find a definitive answer. I would like for people to be able to install the add-in, and have access to three macros which it contains.
What is the best solution to this problem? I would like to add buttons to the add-in ribbon that execute each macro individually. The macros should be available to all workbooks once the add-in is installed.
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Nov 13, 2008
i need to share the valve of the job over the months. see attahed excel sheet. say the job worth 10k has a start date of the 30th of nov and the end date is the 1st of dec. the value of the job is shared between two days and then put into the relevent cell. as regards to the months they are not calander months so the start date and end date of the months are diffrent see attached sheet for full details.
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May 14, 2013
I have 3 sheets in the same workbook. how could I have all three sheets share the same value if I edit one sheet or the other? Right now I have to edit sheet 2 to get the same value on sheets 1&3. I would like to know how to edit sheet3 to be same as sheet 1&2 vice versa.
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Dec 27, 2007
I've spent a fair amount of time creating a financial planning spreadsheet that I'd like to try to sell. My biggest problem is selling it to people and allowing them to use it without them being able to email it to anyone else. My first thought was to code it where a macro will run when the spreadsheet opens that checks if the spreadsheet is being opened on a specific computer and will close down if it is opened on an unauthorized computer. I'm not sure if this will work or how to code it
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Jun 21, 2006
I have a workbook which has a database and a pivot table. I wish to track changes without sharing the work book.
Is that possible?
Also how can I keep track of the users accessed to the workbook ?
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Sep 17, 2006
I build a workbook with 7 users and each user has his own password and this workbook putted in our server drive ( Common Drive ) and each user has the ability to make any thing in his own sheet
So How could make this workbook shared with this 7 users using VBA Code?
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Oct 22, 2003
Sharing excel file over network for use by multiple persons. File has suddenly stopped opening giving message "File cannot be found" etc.... I back the file up daily to my hard drive so didn't lose much.
This is the second time this has happened. File size is only 300Kb.
Excel seems to be creating temp files to the same folder, then gave a message saying changes could not be saved to the excel file.
Ran the corruption program from this site, it could not open the file.
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Apr 10, 2013
I have an add-in which I want to share with others, but I want to protect the code from modification.
I know how to apply a password to a VBA project (Tools -> Project Properties -> Protection) but the problem is this: when a colleague installs the add-in, the subroutines within the add-in are not available in the Macros list to be added to the ribbon (in the Customize Ribbon window). The subroutines only appear when I remove the password.
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Aug 12, 2007
I have a workbook which relies on another "source" workbook for getting some data. It then does some processing on the data and displays some results.
I want to share the workbook with the results with others, but I don't want to give them the "source" workbook.
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Oct 16, 2006
We want to share an excel sheet online, where we can go to and edit and save it. And possibly link the fields to a dB to build a website from. Anyways what is the best cheapest way of doing this? I googled and found so much stuff, was hoping someone here has already gone thru this process and can just point me to the best one....
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Apr 26, 2007
However, since I have shared the document the macros do not work. I am a little confused at this as I thought there would only be a problem if I protected the document, so I took that off yet I get a run error 1004. I have played with the code to have exclusive access but that doesnt appear to make a difference either.
Sub GetDataFromClosedWorkbook()
Dim wb As Workbook
Dim CurrentSheet As String
CurrentSheet = Application.ActiveSheet. Name
' turn off the screen updating
Application. ScreenUpdating = False
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
Application.EnableEvents = False
' open the source workbook, read only
Set wb = Workbooks.Open("L:Clearance&AgencyCollateral Management ProductsCMSGRQV SPREADSHEETSRQV.MasterSheet.xls", True, True)...............
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Apr 22, 2014
I have two user forms, each with a checkbox for Jan-Dec. Also, I have a checkbox "All" to check/uncheck the Jan-Dec boxes. I also created a class module so that if any of the Jan-Dec boxes get unchecked, while the "All" box is still checked, it will uncheck the All box. Basically I just don't want the All checkbox to be able to be checked while any single month is unchecked. The only/easiest way I found to do this was with a class module, so I would not need to create individual Checkbox_Jan_Click() events for each month.
Now my issue is, I have 2 userforms like this. I'd like them to share the same class module, but in the class module I need to refer to UserForm1.CheckBox_All. So I need to dynamically refer to whichever userform was active, but as far as I can tell, this is not possible.
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