Ediitng an existing custom toolbar (2003 – 2007)

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Attached is a zip file with a word addin that creates a custom toolbar named LSI. The toolbar is not pretty and it performs standard word functions like indenting, bullets, etc. why someone did this I am not sure. I wanted to see what all standard word functions they are using but I do not know how to look at an existing custom toolbar, i.e. editing it. What steps are required. I trying to do this in Word 2003 and have tried 2007 as well but can’t figure it out. I have found articles about how to create a custom toolbar which I know how to do but nothing about modifying an existing one especially like renaming the commands or changing what functions are accessed by a item, and so on.

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You can look at the properties of these buttons by going to the Visual Basic Immediate Window (Alt-F11 followed by Control-G) and typing commands like.

Debug.Print CommandBars("LSI").Controls(1).Builtin
TRUE
(so we know this is a builtin control)

Debug.Print CommandBars("LSI").Controls(1).ID
2321
(this is the ID for the builtin control that applies a style)

Debug.Print CommandBars("LSI").Controls(1).Parameter
Body Text
(So the first control on your toolbar applies the Body Text style)

You can examine the other buttons using similar commands.

StuartR

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Some of the buttons on the toolbar execute built-in functions. Such buttons have an ID > 1; the ID represents the function executed by the button. See post 203,498 for a way to find out these IDs. Example: BT. You can’t assign another action to these buttons for ID is read-on;y. You’d have to delete the button and create a new one.

Others insert an AutoText entry that is stored in the template. Example: 2ColTable.

Yet others apply a style to the selected text. Example: TT.

As StuartR pointed out, the name of the AutoText entry or Style is the Parameter property of the button. You can change this:

CommandBars(“LSI”).Controls(“TT”).Parameter = “Heading 1”

A fourth type of button executes a macro. The name of the macro is stored in the OnAction property, and you can assign another macro by changing the value of OnAction. Example: BuildPM.
To assign the (fictitious) macro MyMacro to this button, you’d use

CommandBars(“LSI”).Controls(“BuildPM”).OnAction = “MyMacro”

The name of a button is its Caption property. You can change this:

CommandBars(“LSI”).Controls(“BuildPM”).Caption = “Some Other Text”

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