Wierd--Excel Control on custom ribbon doesn't work!

[ACommandLineKindaGuy]

I have a custom ribbon with some built in controls for text formatting. Here's an XML snippet:

<gallery idMso="CellFillColorPicker" showLabel="false"/>
<toggleButton idMso="AlignLeft" showLabel="false"/>
<toggleButton idMso="AlignCenter" showLabel="false"/>
<toggleButton idMso="AlignRight" showLabel="false"/>
<button idMso="IndentDecreaseExcel"/>
<button idMso="IndentIncreaseExcel"/>

The Indent controls don't work when all other text formatting controls do, including controls I haven't shown in the XML snippet, like bold, italics, font size, and so on.

It's easy enough to just replace the built-in indent controls with:

<button id="customButton7" size="normal" imageMso="IndentDecreaseExcel" onAction="IndentMinus"/>
<button id="customButton8" size="normal" imageMso="IndentIncreaseExcel" onAction="IndentPlus"/>

with the following in VBA:

Sub IndentPlus(control As IRibbonControl)
With Selection
    .IndentLevel = .IndentLevel + 1
End With
End Sub

Sub IndentMinus(control As IRibbonControl)
With Selection
    .IndentLevel = .IndentLevel - 1
End With
End Sub

But now if I'm in a protected cell, the workaround controls of course are not disabled, whereas the built-in controls are. I suppose I could add an errorhandler to the subs, but the point is, why do I even need to do this workaround?

TIA John

 

[ACommandLineKindaGuy]

Thought I'd bump this up--never have figured this out!