Modify custom toolbar button behaviour

[Robert Werner]

I created a custom toolbar awhich includes a button which looks just like the
Bold button in standard windows formatting toolbar but applies a custom
style.

I would like this to behave the same as the standard button and click on and
off to apply or remove the formatting and display highlighted or not
depending on whether the style is applied to the text.

I have no idea how to do this whatsoever. I have looked in the Visual basic
editor for some list that will display the existence of the button and
provide some sort of properties option that would make it clickable with
rules on how to behave.

any ideas how to do this?

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Robert

You have two issues here.

The first issue is the toggle, and that's easy. Create a macro that is
something like the following, and create a button that invokes the macro:
If Selection.Style = "Style 1" Then
Selection.Style = "Style 2"
Else
Selection.Style = "Style 1"
End If

You'll need some error checking to ensure that "Style 1" and "Style 2"
actually exist in this document, and to cope when the user presses that
button when a picture or autotext is selected.

The second issue is having the button display the state of affairs at the
insertion point. That means that somewhere, some code has to be running in
the background that constantly checks where the insertion point is, what
style is at the insertion point, and reflects that in the button.

This isn't straight forward at all.

You can start by using the WindowSelectionChange event. For information
about that, see:
Writing application event procedures
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AppClassEvents.htm

However, bear in mind that there's no built-in "when the style changes"
event, so you'll need to create your own.

If you need further help, I suggest you ppost a message to one of the Word
VBA newsgroups.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word