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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...
Postedby robcooper | 5 Comments    
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...
Postedby robcooper | 9 Comments    
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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...
Postedby robcooper | 3 Comments    
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...
Postedby robcooper | 5 Comments    
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...
Postedby robcooper | 7 Comments    
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...
Postedby robcooper | 5 Comments    
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...
Postedby Erik Rucker | 56 Comments    
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