Microsoft Access commandbar listing: Microsoft Access, toolbar, commandbar

Microsoft Access commandbar listing

I am working on a Microsoft Access database that was created in Microsoft Access 2003. The users are now using Access 2007 and we are developing in 2007. However, the custom toolbars the original developer created were created in Access 2003. A couple of the menu items do not work and we need to add items to the commandbar. Going back and forth between developing in Access 2003 and Access 2007 is a pain, so we plan to migrate the toolbars into ribbons. We know how to do it so we are going to do it.

Anyway, opening and recording every button on the ribbons as well as the method/action they execute is a pain. We would like to create a procedure that does it for us. I created the procedure in the code below. It works to a certain extent and then it doesn't. For example, one toolbar has four separate menus: File, Edit, View, and Reports. In each menu there are items. When I run the code below it will return the File, Edit, View, and Reports, but it doesn't list any of the other items under these menus and I can't go any lower on the tree.

According to my search of the web, the cbarMenu.Controls(controlname) should have a Controls property, but mine does not.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Tammy

Public Sub GetToolbarControl(barname As String, controlname As String)
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
 
Dim cbarMenu As CommandBar
Dim cbarControl As CommandBarControl
 
Set cbarMenu = CommandBars(barname)
 
For Each cbarControl In cbarMenu.Controls(controlname)
            Debug.Print "     " & cbarControl.Caption
            
Next cbarControl
 
Procedure_Exit:
    'Cleanup
    Exit Sub
 
ErrorHandler:
    Select Case Err.Number
        Case Else
            Call MsgBox("Number: " & Err.Number & vbCrLf & _
                                 "Description: " & Err.Description & vbCrLf & _
                                 vbOKOnly + vbExclamation + vbDefaultButton1, _
                                 "Unexpected Error")
    End Select
    Resume Procedure_Exit
 
End Sub

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