How to dim custom toolbar buttons

[JAH]

Hi,

In word 2003, is there a way to 'dim' or gray-out custom macro toolbar
buttons when no document is open, to mimic the behaviour of built-in
command buttons such as 'save', 'paste' etc? I tried duplicating one
of these built-in buttons, but I could not re-assign my own macros to
it. I simply want to make some of my custom macros unavailable when no
documents are open - at the moment, they check for the presence of an
open document and flag an error or open a blank document, but I
thought there should be a neater way.

Thanks,
John.

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi John,

a disabled button is greyed out.

Sub Testyyy1()
Dim oCmd As CommandBar
Dim oBtn As CommandBarButton
Set oCmd = ActiveDocument.CommandBars("Test01")
With oCmd
oCmd.Controls(2).Enabled = False
' oCmd.Controls(2).Enabled = True
End With
End Sub

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Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Vista Small Business, Office XP