CHANGING EXCEL'S VISTA MENU 

You can change the items in Excel's ViSta menu. You can remove the ones that are there, add new ones, etc. The actions of the menu items can be any ViSta Lisp script. Thus, you can have memu items that do any type of visualization/analysis that ViSta Lisp is capable of.

You take the following steps to customize the menu items in Excel's ViSta menu:

1. Prepare the Scripts

Write the scripts to be used by the Excel menu items. The scripts in the startup\excel directory are very simple, single action scripts. More complex scripts can be written using Lisp.

2: Save the Scripts

Each script must be saved as a file in ViSta's startup\excel directory. The filename must match the name in the excelmenus.txt file (see next step).

3. Change the Menus:

  Look at the existing excelmenus.txt file to see how the information in it connects the menus you see in Excel with the scripts in the startup/excel folder. Then edit the  file, entering the new menu name followed by the lisp script associated with it.
