CommandBarButton.Caption Property

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Office Developer Reference

Gets or sets the caption text for a command bar control. Read/write.

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The use of CommandBars in some Microsoft Office applications has been superseded by the new Ribbon user interface. For more information, search help for the keyword "Ribbon."

Syntax

expression.Caption

expression   A variable that represents a CommandBarButton object.

Return Value
String

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A control's caption is also displayed as its default ScreenTip.

Example
This example adds a command bar control with a spelling checker button face to a custom command bar, and then it sets the caption to "Spelling checker."

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set myBar = CommandBars.Add(Name:="Custom", _
Position:=msoBarTop, Temporary:=True)
myBar.Visible = True 
Set myControl = myBar.Controls _
.Add(Type:=msoControlButton, Id:=2)
With myControl
    .DescriptionText = "Starts the spelling checker"
    .Caption = "Spelling checker"
End With

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