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Default Identifying commandbar names in non-English versions of Excel

Daniel,

I thought that might be the case. I do know that in principle the .Name
property of a CommandBar object should always use its US-English name, as
Commandbars have a LocalName property as well. This is what Help says about
LocalName

Returns the name of a built-in command bar as it's displayed in the language
version of the container application, or returns or sets the name of a
custom command bar

The key word here however is should, as, according to a Stephen Bullen, the
localisation of a few languages (notably Dutch) got carried away and
localised the .Name property of some commandbars.

So you have the worst situation in practice.

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Bob Phillips
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"Daniel Klann" wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply Bob but that's not what I'm after. I know how to

find
the commandbar names in my version and if I had a non-English version of
Excel I could answer this without posting here! I need someone who has a
non-English version of Excel to be able to confirm whether or not
commandbars have the same names as the English version; specifically, is

the
worksheet cell context menu called 'Cell'? Or if someone else has had

this
issue and knows the answer that would be cool.

Regards,
Dan


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Daniel,

Not sure if this is much use to you, but this code prints all the

commandbar
names

Dim cb As CommandBar

For Each cb In CommandBars
Debug.Print cb.Name
Next cb

You would need to figure which non-English name matches the English

version,
and I assume it will work in non-English apps.

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Bob Phillips
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"Daniel Klann" wrote in message
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Hi everybody,

I use code that adds a button to the 'Cell' commandbar (this is the
commandbar that appears when you right click in a worksheet cell). I

want
to ensure that my code will work in all versions of Excel from 97 to

2003
(this has been tested successfully) and in non-English versions of

Excel.

Can anyone tell me if the commandbars names are different in

non-English
versions? If they are then how would I get a reference to the Cell
commandbar in code? I can't use the Index property as it seems to be
different depending on which version one is using. Also, I thought

about
using the FindControl method on one of the Cell commandbar's buttons

and
then getting the Parent property. The problem with this is that each

button
on the Cell commandbar exists on other commandbars so I can't be sure

I'm
getting the right one.

Thanks for any help,

Daniel Klann