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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / May 2006Toolbar on Right
I have a custom toolbar that I'd like to position on the right side of the screen but I want the buttons to be displayed vertically rather than horizontally. Is there a way to do this? No! Strangely, though, text is displayed sideways. -- Enjoy, Tony > I have a custom toolbar that I'd like to position on the right side of the > screen but I want the buttons to be displayed vertically rather than > horizontally. Is there a way to do this? > No! > > Strangely, though, text is displayed sideways. If you set the Style property of each individual button on the toolbar to msoButtonWrapCaption, then the caption displays horizontally even when the toolbar is docked to one side. You can't access this display option from the user interface, you have to set it using VBA. Once you have set the buttons in a template, you can save the template and they will remain. Make sure you have correctly set the CustomizationContext to your template before making the changes. You can set the wrapping caption for toolbar buttons, but not for menus that you add to your toolbar.  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Thank you Jonathan, That's an interesting side effect I didn't know about. I sometimes put my menu bar at the left and wouldn't want to lose the real estate horizontal text would take. I don't need to, and rarely do, read the captions but I would prefer if they ran top to bottom facing inwards instead of bottom to top facing outwards. -- Enjoy, Tony > > No! > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Please reply to the newsgroup > Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org > Thank you Jonathan, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > instead > of bottom to top facing outwards. The way I deal with this is to minimize button real estate by having a highly abbreviated caption, and then having a longer description in the tooltip. Again, you can't set the tooltip through the user interface, but you can by setting the Tooltip property in VBA. By the way, this all only applies to buttons, it doesn't apply to CommandbarPopup objects (menus). Menus have no Style property and so can't have their text set to be horizontal when docked. SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Thank you....this information was very helpful. Do either of you know of any way to label a toolbar and have the label displayed along with the toolbar? > > Thank you Jonathan, > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > CommandbarPopup objects (menus). Menus have no Style property and so can't > have their text set to be horizontal when docked. > Thank you....this information was very helpful. Do either of you know of > any > way to label a toolbar and have the label displayed along with the > toolbar? Floating toolbars have a caption that is the same as the name of the toolbar. I don't know of any way to get that caption to show while the toolbar is docked. SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org |
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