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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / April 2007Word2007; width of toolbar dropdown list
In 2003 and below, I can create a dropdown list in a new tool bar like this CommandBars(listnameis).Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlDropdown) control its width with the ".width = ###" command. In 2007, with all addins shoved into the same window, I no longer seem to be able to control widths. When 'undecended,' they are fairly narrow, and when decended, they take up the entire width of the screen! This is not an acceptable behavior. Is there a way to control the width of msoControlDropdown lists in 2007? Ed (in Virginia) Hi Ed, > In 2003 and below, I can create a dropdown list in a new tool bar like this > CommandBars(listnameis).Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlDropdown) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Is there a way to control the width of msoControlDropdown lists in 2007? Well, I don't see any way to control the widths. OTOH, the descended list isn't any wider than the collapsed one, on my installation. Can you share some code with us that builds the control where you're seeing the problem? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Cindy, here is a snippet of the VBA code. Set mybar = CommandBars.Add(name:="ColorList", Position:=msoBarTop, _ temporary:=True) Set NEWLIST = mybar.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlDropdown) NEWLIST.Width = 125 NEWLIST.DropDownLines = 15 For n = 1 To FileCountIs NEWLIST.AddItem ColorIs(n) Next >> In 2003 and below, I can create a dropdown list in a new tool bar like >> this [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> >> Is there a way to control the width of msoControlDropdown lists in 2007? Well, I don't see any way to control the widths. OTOH, the descended list isn't any wider than the collapsed one, on my installation. Can you share some code with us that builds the control where you're seeing the problem? Hi Roy, > Set mybar = CommandBars.Add(name:="ColorList", Position:=msoBarTop, _ > temporary:=True) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > NEWLIST.AddItem ColorIs(n) > Next Well, after correcting it for missing functions... I still can't reproduce the problem - I don't see the dropdown list extending across the width of the document/Word window/screen. If the text is shorter than the width of the control, the dropdown has that width. If the text is longer, the dropdown extends so that the text can fit. Any chance your functions are dumping in a lot of empty spaces, thus forcing this extreme width? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Actually, that is exactly what is happening, but I don't want it to happen. There is text at the right of the list that I do not want users to see. That's why I want to set the width of the control to a width that will only display the 50 left-most characters in any row. Word2007 seems to not let me do that. Roy ============== > Hi Roy, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question > or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Ed, > There is text at the right of the list that I do not want users to see. > That's why I want to set the width of the control to a width that will only > display the 50 left-most characters in any row. Word2007 seems to not let me > do that. No, it doesn't. Why don't you set up the combobox with columns? Then you can choose to leave some columns invisible (width of 0). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Great idea. I will try that. Thanks! > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > reply > in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
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