When you right-click on a cell, Excel provides you with a feature-rich Context menu that allows you to do any number of things. You may want to add some features to that Context menu, particularly if they are features you use often.
Unfortunately, you cannot edit Context menus in the same manner that you can edit other menus—by using Customize from the Tools menu. Instead, you must manipulate Context menus through VBA.
If you want to add an item to the Context menu that appears when you right-click on a cell, you can use the following code:
Sub AddItemToContextMenu() Dim cmdNew As CommandBarButton Set cmdNew = CommandBars("cell").Controls.Add With cmdNew .Caption = "My Procedure" .OnAction = "MyProcedure" .BeginGroup = True End With End Sub
All you need to do is set the .Caption property to whatever menu text you want used, and then change the .OnAction property so that it points to a macro or command you want used. When you later want to remove the menu option, you can use the following macro:
Sub RemoveContextMenuItem() On Error Resume Next CommandBars("cell").Controls("My Procedure").Delete End Sub
To use this, change the "My Procedure" text to whatever text you used in the .Caption property of the previous macro. The On Error statement is used in this macro just in case the specified macro item had not been previously added.
By modifying your macro just a bit, you can specify that the addition to the Context menu should occur only when right-clicking on specific cells. The following macro checks to see if you are clicking on a cell in the range of C10:E25. If you are, then it adds a menu option for your procedure at the end of the Context menu.
Private Sub Worksheet_BeforeRightClick(ByVal Target As Range, _ Cancel As Boolean) Dim cmdNew As CommandBarButton For Each icbc In Application.CommandBars("cell").Controls If icbc.Tag = "brccm" Then icbc.Delete Next icbc If Not Application.Intersect(Target, Range("c10:e25")) _ Is Nothing Then Set cmdNew = CommandBars("cell").Controls.Add With cmdNew .Caption = "My Procedure" .OnAction = "MyProcedure" .BeginGroup = True .Tag = "brccm" End With End If End Sub
In the VBA editor, this macro needs to be added to the specific worksheet that you want it used with. All you need to do is double-click on that worksheet, in the Project Explorer (upper-left corner of the VBA editor), and then enter it into the code window for that worksheet.
As with the earlier macro, all you need to do is modify the settings specified for the .Caption and .OnAction properties. In addition, you may want to change the cell range that is considered "valid" when adding a menu choice—just change the "c:10:e25" range specification to the range desired. You can even use a named range in place of the cell range, which is great if your valid range is really a set of non-contiguous cells.
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2021-01-22 08:08:21
Horacio
I notice this context menu item persists across all sheets.
I moved to Workbook Workbook_SheetBeforeRightClick event
Now, if I wanted to add a parameter to the .onAction sub, how would it be?
2020-12-23 22:21:41
coffent
I've tried what you suggest in your first code block:
Sub AddItem()
Dim cmdNew As CommandBarButton
Set cmdNew = CommandBars("cell").Controls.Add
'With cmdNew
'.Caption = "Insert check hyperlink"
'.OnAction = "InsertCheckHyperlink()"
'.BeginGroup = True
'End With
End Sub
When I step through the routine to the "Set" command, it stops with the error "Object variable or With block variable not set." (I've commented out the rest of the routine just to be sure it isn't somehow causing the error.) Since the same code seems to work for you, why am I getting an error? Thanks.
2020-02-04 00:37:24
omri
Hi,
is there a way to insert sub-menus?
2017-03-16 10:42:46
guni
Hi
I am creating a large report which is connected to SQL so I will have a menu sheet from cell A1 downwards I will list let’s say top 10 sales people, top then products etc. in cell B1 I will have SQL query
the question is ? Is it possible that .Caption = sheets("menu"). range ("A1:A20")
I am new to it I would be grateful if you could put some notes how you approached
Thank you,
2016-08-12 11:23:59
Roger
Is it possible to replace a command like "Copy" so that it is in the same location?
2015-11-06 13:02:54
carlo
great!
you solved a difficult proble to get get through
2015-11-06 12:12:10
carlo
very nice
2015-05-10 09:11:58
Kadr Leyn
Thanks for information.
I made template this topic and I added a date userform to right-click(context) menu.In this way you can add "date" with right-click menu to selected cell.
Link : https://netmerkez.wordpress.com/excel/add-right-click-menu/
2015-03-05 04:01:35
Jeff Weir
Whoops, I meant
if .Caption = "My Procedure" then icbc.Delete
2015-03-05 04:00:30
Jeff Weir
Hi Allan. Great article.
Question: Is there any particular reason you use the .Tag property in the following line:
If icbc.Tag = "brccm" Then icbc.Delete
...instead of just using the .Caption property like so:
.Caption = "My Procedure"
?
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