RunMenuCommand Macro Action

Office 2013 and later

Other Versions

Office 2010

Last modified: July 28, 2015

Applies to: Access 2013 | Office 2013

You can use the RunMenuCommand action to run a built-in Microsoft Access command.

Setting

The RunMenuCommand action has the following action argument.

Action argument	Description
Command	The name of the command you want to run. The Command box shows the available built-in commands in Access, in alphabetical order. This is a required argument.

Remarks

You can use the RunMenuCommand action to run an Access command from a custom menu bar, global menu bar, custom shortcut menu, or global shortcut menu.

You can use the RunMenuCommand action in a macro with conditional expressions to run a command depending on certain conditions.

Note
Clicking the File tab and then clicking Recent shows the most recently used databases. You can click one of these databases instead of clicking Open. These database items don't appear in the drop-down list box for the Command argument, and aren't available by using the RunMenuCommand action in a macro.

When you convert an Access database from a previous version of Access, some commands may no longer be available. A command may have been renamed, moved to a different menu, or may no longer be available in Access. The DoMenuItem actions for such commands can't be converted to RunMenuCommand actions. When you open the macro, Access will display a RunMenuCommand action with a blank Command argument for such commands. You must edit the macro and enter a valid command argument, or delete the RunMenuCommand action.

To run the RunMenuCommand action in a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) module, use the RunCommand method of the Application object. (This is equivalent to the RunCommand method of the DoCmd object.)