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Ian B - 28 Jan 2008 00:39 GMT

Hi All
This is probably getting outside Word, but its Word and VBA I'm working
with.

I need to intercept a right mouse click when editing a word document and
then showing a form (VB/VBA) of my own.
I have experimented with Spy++ (distributed with VB6) and while I can see
messages from other mouse clicks, I cannot see any WM_RBUTTONxxx messages
from a right mouse click.
I suspect this is because Word may be intercepting the message before Spy++
sees it.

I'm at (if not beyond!) my programming ability with this so any pointers
greatly appreciated.

Ian B

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 29 Jan 2008 02:10 GMT

Customize the relevant right click (Short cut) menu(s) by adding a button
that calls the macro that causes the form to be displayed.

To do that, select Customize from the Tools menu and then go to the Toolbars
tab of the Customize dialog and check the "Shortcut Menus" toolbar. Then go
to the Commands tab and from the Macros Categorym select the command (macro)
and drag it onto the expanded short cut toolbar(s)

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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Ian Bayly - 29 Jan 2008 20:11 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion Doug but I must be missing something.
On my PC (Word 2003) the right click menu looks nothing like the shortcut
menu.
The shortcut menu seems to have every possible action within it, whereas the
right click menu has only 11 actions.
To rephrase the question, how can I customise the right click menu.

Ian B

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Shauna Kelly - 29 Jan 2008 23:28 GMT

Hi Ian

First, some terminology. What you see when you right-click the face of a
Word document is called a Shortcut menu.

There are many shortcut menus, and which one Word displays in response
to a right-click depends on what you right-clicked. For example, if you
right click in a field, you see the Fields menu, which includes the
Update Field command. But if you right-click in a footnote, you see the
Footnotes menu, which includes commands relating to footnotes.

So you have to decide which of the many shortcut menus you want to
customize. Doug's message explained how to do that. For more details,
see:

How to assign a Word command or macro to a toolbar or menu
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

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Ian Bayly - 30 Jan 2008 19:32 GMT

Thanks Shauna

Never knew that, I must have always right clicked on a blank portion of the
document.
Makes sense now.

Ian B

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