Re: Floating menu bar

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"Ian Bayly" <IanDBayly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you all for your comments & suggestions.

Yes, I was after horizontal text, with entries vertical. Imagine the Word
"Tools" menu floating, that was the effect I wanted.
The floating menu bar is a much better looking object than a look-alike
form with buttons, and is considerably smaller, so I am going to persevere
with the menu.

Could I ask a further question please.
I have 23 entries on the menu with shortcuts thus:
&A Entry xxx
&B Entry yyy
&C Entry eee
etc.
Because the menu shares focus with the active document and whatever menus
are showing, my shortcut keys lose priority to the standard menu
shortcuts.
i.e. &F will activate the "File" menu rather than the duplicate floating
menu shortcut. I am looking at a work around which temporarily hides all
standard menu bars and strips the basic bar as much as I dare, just while
the floating menu is operative, then restoring all menu settings when
floating bar is hidden.
Quite a clumsy task.

To my question: As stated, the main toolbar appears to have shortcut
precedence over my menu bar. What controls this and can I set my floating
toolbar shortcuts to take precedence over the standard menu shortcuts?
i.e. I want my &F to function rather than the "File" menu.
A big ask perhaps!

If you press Alt, then F twice, your menu will be highlighted (the first F
will highlight the File menu). If you have many menu items with the same
accelerator key, pressing the key repeatedly will cycle between them. If
that is good enough for you, there is no need for any further alteration.
But if you really want to temporarily hide the menu bar, change the Visible
property of Commandbars.ActiveMenuBar.


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Regards
Jonathan West - Word MVP
www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk
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