However once added it is disabled

I wasn't able to duplicate this. Unless of course the active sheet was a
chart sheet or an XL4 macro sheet or a dialog sheet...

we have been told is due to a key add-in not being able to cope with an
excel11.xlb file bigger than 30KB

Seems unlikely but I suppose it's easy to test if it's true. A workaround
is to make your menu/toolbar customizations via macros in your Personal.xls,
deleted when Personal closes or at least with the commandbars 'temporary'
parameter set. That way they never hit the XLB.

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Jim
"veryeavy" wrote in message
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| Hi all,
|
| One quick specific question re one wee oddity I have noted with the
| following line of code:
|
| Dim btnLB3 As CommandBarButton
| Set btnLB3 =
| Application.CommandBars("SLBTbar").Controls.Add(Ty pe:=msoControlButton,
| ID:=1561)
|
| which adds the "View Code" button to my custom toolbar "SLBTbar".
|
| However once added it is disabled when I try to use it from the workbook I
| created it from, but it works fine when other workbooks are activated.
|
| Sure this is easy peasy and I am just being stoopid.
|
|
| I have a general question surrounding this whole area - we have a problem
at
| work which we have been told is due to a key add-in not being able to cope
| with an excel11.xlb file bigger than 30KB. Obviously this severely limits
the
| amount of customisation we can do to our toolbars. Equally obviously our
IT
| bods are cretins. I am not an IT bod <grin.
|
| I have seen the Debra Dalgleish approach using an add-in to creating
custom
| toolbars on the fly and also the John Walkenbach approach to saving and
| retrieving menu settings to a worksheet, and realise it would not be
rocket
| science to create a "save and retrieve" functionality for the whole
| menu/toolbar structure outside of the xlb file.
|
| There are obviously a number of questions:
|
| 1. Is it likely IT Dept talking sense with respect to a large add-in
falling
| over if the xlb file is too big? (i.e we can have an extensively
customised
| menu or the functionality of the add-in but not both).
| 2. If so has anyone already designed a fully fledged workaround to save
all
| a users menu/toolbar settings outside of the xlb file.
| 3. Any general pointers (obviously I am just messing around learning how
| this stuff works at the moment)
|
| Cheers,
|
|
|