Executing the Menu Commands in Excel

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This is the first article in the Excel Automation category and there are many more to come. Excel provides Methods for Add-ins to add new Menu options. Automation for testing or using these options requires us to execute the Menu Option through code. In this article we will explore how the same is done
We will use the following object for this
  • Application - The top level application object
  • CommandBars - The collection of CommandBar objects. Derived from the Application object
  • CommandBar - Individual CommandBar object
  • Controls - Child Controls of the CommandBar object

  • Now we follow various steps to execute a specified Menu item
    Open a New Excel Application
    Set xlsApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

    Open a new or an Existing file
    'To open a new one
    Set xlsWorkBooks = xlsApp.WorkBooks.Add
     
    'To open an existing one
    Set xlsWorkBooks = xlsApp.WorkBooks.Open ("C:/MyTest.xls")

    Note: Above code would not be required if the code is being run inside a excel macro only
    Get the CommandBar object
    This can be a bit tricky if you are not aware of which CommandBar object you are looking for. Below code can be used to see all of them
    For i = 1 to xlsApp.CommandBars.Count
       Debug.Print xlsApp.CommandBars(i).Name
    Next

    To get a individual CommandBar object we can also use its name as shown in code below
    xlsApp.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Name

    Getting the Sub Menus and Executing them
    Once we have the Specific CommandBar object we were looking for we can use the Controls object to find the child menus/options
    xlsApp.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Controls("Tools").Controls("Spelling...").Execute

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