John,

No, that's not possible. You need to use the Add method of the
Controls collection to create the new object. Among other things,
the CommandBarControl object needs to have a Parent object, its
container, so you can't create a new CommandBarControl directly.
Use .Add.

--
Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com


"John A Grandy" wrote in message
...
apparently, this is not possible ...

Dim cbc As CommandBarControl
Set cbc = New CommandBarControl

??