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DescriptionText Property

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Returns or sets the description for a command bar control. The description is not displayed to the user, but it can be useful for documenting the behavior of the control for other developers. Read/write String.

Remarks

This property is used for Balloon Help on the Macintosh.

Example

This example adds a control to a custom command bar, including a description of the control's behavior.

Set myBar = CommandBars.Add("Custom", msoBarTop, , True)
myBar.Visible = True
Set myControl = myBar.Controls _
    .Add(Type:=msoControlButton, ID:= _
    CommandBars("Standard").Controls("Paste").ID)
With myControl
    .DescriptionText = "Pastes the contents of the Clipboard"
    .Caption = "Paste"
End With

Applies to | CommandBarButton Object | CommandBarComboBox Object | CommandBarControl Object | CommandBarPopup Object

See Also | Caption Property | DisplayKeysInTooltips Property | DisplayTooltips Property