Exel Helper

I am building an Excel spreadsheet and want to add a new menu item of the
menu bar. I have manged to do this ok.

The issue is that whenever I open another Excel workbook the same menu bar
appears. I want the menu bar to be spcecific to one workbook only.

In my my workbook and used the Workbook_Open event and Workbook_BeforeClose
event to add and delete the menu item when the workbook was opened and closed.

I assumed that this would menu that the new menu bar only appears in that
workbook. However, if I have that workbook open, and then open an new Excel
workbook, then the new workbook 'inherits' the new menu bar too.

How can I get around this? I know that if you make changes to toolbars then
they will be saved and be 'permanent' in Excel. However, if I use the event
handlers in a given workbook I thought that would confine the changes in a
menu bar to that workbook only?

Regards


Alex

In your events, make the visibility of the menu dependent on the name of the
workbook: use ActiveWorkbook.Fullname or ActiveWorkbook.Name

"Alex" wrote:

Exel Helper

I am building an Excel spreadsheet and want to add a new menu item of the
menu bar. I have manged to do this ok.

The issue is that whenever I open another Excel workbook the same menu bar
appears. I want the menu bar to be spcecific to one workbook only.

In my my workbook and used the Workbook_Open event and Workbook_BeforeClose
event to add and delete the menu item when the workbook was opened and closed.

I assumed that this would menu that the new menu bar only appears in that
workbook. However, if I have that workbook open, and then open an new Excel
workbook, then the new workbook 'inherits' the new menu bar too.

How can I get around this? I know that if you make changes to toolbars then
they will be saved and be 'permanent' in Excel. However, if I use the event
handlers in a given workbook I thought that would confine the changes in a
menu bar to that workbook only?

Regards


Alex

Put the menu build in the main workbook's Workbook_Activate event, and
remove it in the Deactivate event.

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Bob Phillips

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Exel Helper

I am building an Excel spreadsheet and want to add a new menu item of the
menu bar. I have manged to do this ok.

The issue is that whenever I open another Excel workbook the same menu bar
appears. I want the menu bar to be spcecific to one workbook only.

In my my workbook and used the Workbook_Open event and
Workbook_BeforeClose
event to add and delete the menu item when the workbook was opened and
closed.

I assumed that this would menu that the new menu bar only appears in that
workbook. However, if I have that workbook open, and then open an new
Excel
workbook, then the new workbook 'inherits' the new menu bar too.

How can I get around this? I know that if you make changes to toolbars
then
they will be saved and be 'permanent' in Excel. However, if I use the
event
handlers in a given workbook I thought that would confine the changes in a
menu bar to that workbook only?

Regards


Alex