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Built-in Tab Names in Access Ribbons
09 December 08 09:16 PM
If you've tried to create a Ribbon customization that included one of the built-in controls in Access you've probably seen that you can use the Customize page in the Access Options dialog to get the names of groups and controls. You can also download Read More...
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The story of the Office Ribbon
13 March 08 11:53 AM
Some of you may have already seen this posted in Jensen’s blog.  Jensen is the GPM of the Office User Experience team and was the lead for the implementation of the Ribbon in Office 2007.  Last week at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, Read More...
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New Ribbon Reference: RibbonX for Dummies
06 January 08 02:12 AM
Those of you out there building custom Ribbon UI for Access/Office might be interested to know that the Dummies folks have recently released a guide for building Ribbon UI titled (as you might expect) " RibbonX for Dummies ".  The book Read More...
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Access Ribbon Customizer
05 December 07 11:05 PM
One of our Access support leads, Claton Hendricks, has put together a tool he calls Access Ribbon Customizer for Access developers who need to build custom ribbons. This tool is slightly reminiscent of (though not exactly the same as) the built-in command Read More...
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Ribbon Customization - Repurposing Commands
10 October 07 03:45 PM
Sue and I were talking the other day about Ribbon customizations with regard to some training materials that she is preparing for our support engineers. Along the way I mentioned command repurposing and how you could do some pretty cool stuff with it Read More...
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Access 2003 --> Access 2007 UI Guide
04 October 07 11:38 PM
The Access help team has just finished up our new interactive guide for users moving from 2003 to 2007. The guide is a flash based tutorial which allows you to select a command from the 2003 Access UI, and then see where it has moved to in the 2007 ribbon Read More...
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Ribbon Customization: Using a dynamicMenu to Show a List of Open Objects
27 September 07 10:06 PM
This is the third post in my short three-part series on ribbon customizations in Access. In the previous post, I showed how you could fill a dropdown with a list of the open forms in the database. This time, we'll fill a dynamicMenu control in a ribbon Read More...
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Ribbon Customization: Filling Dropdown Lists
25 September 07 05:35 PM
In the previous post, I showed you how to create a simple customization to close the currently open object. Continuing along the lines of adding object helpers to an application, we'll add two dropdown lists to a customization to work with forms. The Read More...
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Ribbon Customization - Closing the Currently Open Object
24 September 07 09:45 AM
In a previous post, I talked about how much I enjoy developing solutions that use the new Office Fluent Ribbon UI. Along those lines, this post is the first of three upcoming posts on some specific customizations I've used in some applications recently. Read More...
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Creating item templates for Ribbon customizations to use in Visual Studio
23 August 07 01:47 AM
Despite my passion for all things related to code, I've always had a soft spot for UI that is exciting both in its "coolness" factor and visual appeal. Along those lines, one of my favorite new features in Access 2007 is Ribbon Extensibility . Writing Read More...
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Ribbon Customizer
25 June 07 01:18 PM
For those of you who have been struggling a little with Ribbon customization in Access 2007 and miss the old world of CommandBars where you could design the command experience directly through the UI, Patrick Schmid has a cool add-in that allows you to Read More...
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Customizing the New Access UI
13 July 06 10:58 AM
I described the new Access UI in this post and this post way back in March. Now I'll run through how you program the ribbon UI using VBA. In a future post (we're still working out the content) I'll do another post on how to do the same thing using macros Read More...
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More Access UI - Ribbons for the Design Views
24 March 06 03:04 PM
In yesterday's post, I skipped the design view of the ribbons for all the objects simply to save space, but as one of the commenters noted these are quite interesting for developers. So here they are! Sorry I didn't get 'em in yesterday's post. Table Read More...
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New Office UI in Access 12
23 March 06 10:48 AM
At long last, I can show and discuss the new Ribbon UI in Access 12. There have been a few comments asking about this in the blog, and I haven't been able to show the whole thing yet (anyone that has seen the Beta 1 version of Access will find this layout Read More...
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Overview of Access 12
07 November 05 10:43 AM
I've had a series of posts talking about the guts of Access 12, but haven't really talked about the gestalt of the product yet. It’s time to fix that. There are 3 key goals for Access 12. First, dramatically expand the number of people who are successful Read More...
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