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# Custom Menu Items Available to All Open Workbooks

Article ID: 112815

Article Last Modified on 8/15/2005

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0c

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## SUMMARY

When you create a new menu item to run a macro, the menu item becomes available to all open workbooks. When you close the workbook that builds the menu item, the item is removed from the menu for all remaining workbooks.
For example, if BOOK1.XLS contains a custom menu item on the File menu, that same custom menu item will be available in BOOK2.XLS, as long as BOOK1.XLS is still open. If BOOK1.XLS is closed, the custom menu item will be removed from the File menu.

## REFERENCES

For more information about Custom Menu Items, choose the Search button in Help and type:

`Menu Editor Command`

Additional query words: 5.00c toolbar XL

Keywords: KB112815