Re: Add-In Keyboard Shortcut

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you say it's unconventional to have an entire module dedicated to adding a
menu (AddMenu).

No I didn't mean that (an entire module etc). I meant unusual to have a
shortcut to a procedure that in turn adds menu item(s), though I think I now
understand what you are doing.

I would suggest a different approach, and I'm assuming you are not deleting
the menus in the close event. In the tag property of your menus write
something that identifies your xla version, an id. In the open event try
setting a reference to your menus (under On Error Resume Next). If the id
refers to an old version delete it and create new menu(s). Also of course if
the menu doesn't exist create the menu.

Regards,
Peter T

"mvyvoda" <mvyvoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From the users standpoint, I have a series of macro's that can only run
from
a menu (as opposed to going into the code and running the macro). However,
each iteration of my .xla file (which stores the macro's) I change this
menu.

So, I want to be able to automatically (via ctrl+shift+d sounds great!) to
change their pre-existing menu to the current one i worked on.

you say it's unconventional to have an entire module dedicated to adding a
menu (AddMenu). You also say you think it wise to add a menu from within
another module. Is that what you're saying? I'm not sure if I follow...
this
line of thinking.

I also think i'm in way over my head :-/ But, it's pretty close....

thanks a lot for your time and effort!!!!,
-m

"Peter T" wrote:

I'm glad you've got it working but not sure I understand your follow-up
question.

You need to run the code that assigns the shortcut to your AddMenu proc,
typically from an open event which might also add a menu. There's no
need
for the proc to have run once before it will work from the shortcut.

It's unusual to have a shortcut that runs code to add menu items, at
least I
assume that's what AddMenu does. More conventional would be to have both
the
OnAction property of a menu item and your shortcut linked to a procedure
that starts some functional aspect of your addin.

Regards,
Peter T

"mvyvoda" <mvyvoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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oh... I misnamed AddMenu. It works now, however I have a final
question. I
have a scenario whereby I need this ctrl+shift+D to work in a
situation
where
someone has never ran the AddMenu routine. Is this possible? Or, do I
have
to
run AddMenu with the added ctrl+shift+D code before they can use
ctrl+shift+D?

If you follow?

Thanks,
-m

"mvyvoda" wrote:

I got rid of the menu already in place to test to see if the
ctrl+shift+D
would work if only personal.xla was in place and never ran. also, i
did
rename the file, to no avail.

I don't have any other macro's that are similarly named.

AddMenu is a pretty typical routine that merely adds a menu, names
it
and
places arguments (attached to macros of course) within the menu.

Peter, I really appreciate all your help!!,
-m

"Peter T" wrote:

Why do you "get rid of the menu already in place"

Is AddMenu a Sub with no arguments

Do you have a similarly named AddMenu sub in any other workbook
(incl
addins), if so did you prefix the way I suggested.

Apart from your Personal.xla do you also have Personal.xls, if so
try
renaming the addin.

Regards,
Peter T

"mvyvoda" <mvyvoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Peter,

When I do this, and get rid of the menu already in place (but
run
your
code)
I get an error:

The macro" C:\..\AddIns\personal.xla'!AddMenu' cannot be found

do you what this means?

Thanks,
-m

"Peter T" wrote:

Application.OnKey "+^D", "MyMacro"

This should create a shortcut Shift-Ctrl-D. If there's any
possibility
MyMacro may exist in any other workbook prefix with
ThisWorkbook.Name &
"!".
Call it from an Open event.

Not sure about naming your addin "Personal.xla" if there may
also
be a
Personal.xls open, guess it's OK but I wouldn't.

Regards,
Peter T

"mvyvoda" <mvyvoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i am using an add-in to store macro's ("personal.xla" in
C:\Documents
and
Settings\mvyvoda\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns). I need
to
have a
keyboard shortcut to one fuction within this add-in. The
macro
list
(Alt-F8)
does not list any macro's in personal.xla.

i'm not even sure where to start.

thanks,
-m











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