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CommandBar.ShowPopup method (Office)

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Displays a command bar as a shortcut menu at the specified coordinates or at the current pointer coordinates.

Note

The use of CommandBars in some Microsoft Office applications has been superseded by the new ribbon component of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. For more information, see Overview of the Office Fluent ribbon.

Syntax

expression.ShowPopup(x, y)

expression A variable that represents a CommandBar object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data type Description
x Optional Variant The x-coordinate on which the location of the shortcut menu is based. If this argument is omitted, the current x-coordinate of the pointer is used.
y Optional Variant The y-coordinate on which the location of the shortcut menu is based. If this argument is omitted, the current y-coordinate of the pointer is used.

Remarks

When menus are left-aligned, the shortcut menu displayed by the ShowPopup method has its upper left corner at (x, y + 1); when menus are right-aligned, the shortcut menu has its upper right corner at (x + 1, y + 1). Use the Windows function GetSystemMetrics(SM_MENUDROPALIGNMENT) to check the system metric for dropdown menu alignment.

When the screen location of the (x, y) coordinates would cause all or part of the popup menu to be displayed beyond the edge of the visible screen, the popup menu shifts to fit into the viewable area.

Example

This example creates a shortcut menu containing two controls. The ShowPopup method is used to make the shortcut menu visible.

Set myBar = CommandBars _ 
    .Add(Name:="Custom", Position:=msoBarPopup, Temporary:=False) 
With myBar 
    .Controls.Add Type:=msoControlButton, Id:=3 
    .Controls.Add Type:=msoControlComboBox 
End With 
myBar.ShowPopup

Note

If the Position property of the command bar is not set to msoBarPopup, this method fails.

See also

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