The information in this document is useful if you are trying to programmatically find a built-in command, menu, or toolbar. The ICommandBars::Find and ICommandBar::Find methods can be used to get a reference to a specific toolbar, menu, or command. Both of these methods require the UID of the object you are trying to find.

There is built-in module called ArcID in the VBA project for the Normal template in ArcMap. This module is a utility for finding the UID of the built-in commands, menus, and toolbars. You pass the name of a command, menu, or toolbar in as an argument to ArcID and the UID of that item is returned. However, in order to use the ArcID module you need to know the name of the object. If you know the caption (the text that appears in the user interface) of the command, menu, or toolbar, then you can use this table to look up the name and then use that name in the ArcID module. For example, the following VBA macro uses the ArcID module to get the UID of the Save command for the Find method and then executes the command.

Sub ExecuteCmd()
  Dim pCmdItem As ICommandItem
  ' Use ArcID module and the Name of the Save command
  Set pCmdItem = Application.Document.CommandBars.Find(arcid.File_Save)
  pCmdItem.Execute
End Sub

Alternatively, you can write your own code to get the UID of the object instead of using the ArcID module. For example, the following VBA macro creates a UID object and sets the value of the UID to GUID of the Save command, passes that UID into the Find method, and then executes the command. Note, if the command is a subtype then you also have to set the SubType property on IUID to the subtype value.

Sub ExecuteCmd2()
  Dim pUID As New UID
  Dim pCmdItem As ICommandItem
  ' Use the GUID of the Save command
  pUID.Value = "{119591DB-0255-11D2-8D20-080009EE4E51}"
  ' or you can use the ProgID
  ' pUID.Value = "esriArcMapUI.MxFileMenuItem"
  pUID.SubType = 3
  Set pCmdItem = Application.Document.CommandBars.Find(pUID)
  pCmdItem.Execute
End Sub

This table contains the following information:

• Caption, name, and GUID of all the built-in toolbars in ArcMap.
• Caption, name, GUID, and parent of all the built-in menus in ArcMap.
• Caption, name, command category (category in the Customize dialog), GUID, SubType, parent, and description of all the built-in commands that appear on the toolbars and menus in ArcMap.