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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    

Filed under: Access 2007, Ribbon, User Interface, Code

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    

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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...

Postedby robcooper | 5 Comments    

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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...

Postedby robcooper | 7 Comments    

Filed under: Access 2007, Ribbon, User Interface, Code

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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