June 2006 - Posts

• Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 6

  In this topic on customizing the Ribbon UI, we'll look at different scenarios for customizing the Ribbon at the application-level by using COM add-ins. These modifications could just as easily be applied to a specific document with document-level customizations Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:00 AM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Customizing the Ribbon UI

• Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 5

  In the previous blog, I created a COM add-in in managed C# code that customized the Ribbon UI regardless of which document was open. In this topic, I use the same customization XML and create the add-in in Visual Basic 6.0. The existing Ribbon UI in Word Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:00 AM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Customizing the Ribbon UI

• Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 4

  In this installment in the series on customizing the Ribbon UI, we'll look at adding application-level customization. In the previous blog, we detailed the steps to create document-level Ribbon by modifying an Open XML Formats macro-enabled file in Word Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:00 AM by frice | 2 Comments Filed under: Customizing the Ribbon UI

• Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 3

  In this blog, I will walk through an example of adding a custom tab, custom group, and a button with a simple callback procedure to the Ribbon in a Word 2007 document. To get started: 1. Create the customization file in any text editor by adding the following Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:00 AM by frice | 3 Comments Filed under: Customizing the Ribbon UI