Chapter 23. Working with Shortcut Menus
In This Chapter
Although the Ribbon has replaced menus and toolbars, Excel 2007 still offers developers the opportunity to customize the shortcut menus. Typically, right-clicking an item displays a context-sensitive shortcut menu containing relevant commands. In this chapter, I cover the following:
How to identify shortcut menus
How to customize the shortcut menus
How to disable shortcut menus
How to use events in conjunction with shortcut menus
How to create a completely new shortcut menu
The CommandBar object takes on a much less significant role in Excel 2007. This chapter covers the CommandBar object as it relates to customizing shortcut menus.
CommandBar Overview
A CommandBar object is used for three Excel user interface elements:
Custom toolbars
Custom menus
Customs shortcut (right-click) menus
In Excel 2007, the CommandBar object is in a rather odd position. If you write VBA code to customize a menu or a toolbar, Excel intercepts that code and ignores many of your commands. As I describe in Chapter 22, menu and toolbar customizations performed with the CommandBar object appear in the Add-Ins 
Menu Commands or the Add-Ins Custom Toolbars group. So, for all practical purposes, the CommandBar object in Excel 2007 is limited to shortcut menu operations. ...
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