SetFocus Method

Microsoft Office Visual Basic

Moves the keyboard focus to the specified command bar control. If the control is disabled or isn't visible, this method will fail.

Remarks

The focus on the control is subtle. After you use this method, you will notice a three dimensional highlight on the control. Pressing the arrow keys will navigate in the toolbars, as if you had arrived at the control by pressing only keyboard controls.

expression.SetFocus

expression    Required. An expression that returns a CommandBarControl, CommandBarButton, CommandBarPopup, or CommandBarComboBox object.

Example

This example creates a command bar named "Custom" and adds a ComboBox control and a Button control to it. The example then uses the SetFocus method to set the focus to the ComboBox control.

Set focusBar = CommandBars.Add(Name:="Custom")
With CommandBars("Custom")
    .Visible = True
    .Position = msoBarTop
End With

Set testComboBox = CommandBars("Custom").Controls _
    .Add(Type:=msoControlComboBox, ID:=1)
With testComboBox
    .AddItem "First Item", 1
    .AddItem "Second Item", 2
End With
Set testButton = CommandBars("Custom").Controls _
    .Add(Type:=msoControlButton)
testButton.FaceId = 17
' Set the focus to the combo box.
testComboBox.SetFocus