For a Menu control, Caption is normally read/write at run time. But Caption is read-only for menus that are exposed or supplied by Visual Basic to add-ins, such as the MenuLine object.
Syntax
object.Caption [= string]
The Caption property syntax has these parts:
| Part | Description |
| object | An object expression that evaluates to an object in the Applies To list. If object is omitted, the form associated with the active form moduleis assumed to be object. |
| string | A string expression that evaluates to the text displayed as the caption. |
Remarks
When you create a new object, its default caption is the default Name property setting. This default caption includes the object name and an integer, such as Command1 or Form1. For a more descriptive label, set the Caption property.
You can use the Caption property to assign an access key to a control. In the caption, include an ampersand (&) immediately preceding the character you want to designate as an access key. The character is underlined. Press the ALT key plus the underlined character to move the focus to that control. To include an ampersand in a caption without creating an access key, include two ampersands (&&). A single ampersand is displayed in the caption and no characters are underlined.
A Label control’s caption size is unlimited. For forms and all other controls that have captions, the limit is 255 characters.
To display the caption for a form, set the BorderStyle property to either Fixed Single (1 or vbFixedSingle), Sizable (2 or vbSizable), or Fixed Double (3 or vbFixedDouble). A caption too long for the form's title bar is clipped. When an MDI child form is maximized within an MDIForm object, the child form's caption is included in the parent form's caption.
Tip For a label, set the AutoSize property to True to automatically resize the control to fit its caption.