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• Lots of new resources for the Office 2010 Backstage View UI and 64-bit Office

  Be sure and take a look at the following articles and downloads for both the Office 2010 Backstage view and the 64-bit version of Office. Also stay tuned for additional articles, code samples, and videos related to the Office 2010 UI. Download: Office Read More... Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 1:54 PM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Office 2010 Backstage view user interface 64-bit Office

• The Office Developer Resources Ribbon UI Add-in

  The Microsoft Office Developer Center (ODC) ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/office ) contains a tremendous number of how-to articles, videos, code samples, and so forth to help you create Office solutions. The menus and links on the ODC are pretty handy for Read More... Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:27 PM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Office Developer Resources Ribbon

• Excel's Worksheets and Sheets Collection - What's the Difference?

  Among the top four objects most searched for on the Microsoft Developer Network by Excel programmers are the Sheets collection and the Worksheets collection (the other two are the Range object and the Application object). As an aside, I've written new Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:07 AM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Excel 2007, Worksheets collection, Sheets collection

• Check out these new articles on MSDN

  The article Calling Excel 2007 Custom Wizards from the Office Fluent Ribbon by Using VBA ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb927654.aspx ) demonstrates how to create a custom wizard in Excel 2007 using VBA and then modify the Ribbon to call the Read More... Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:23 AM by frice | 1 Comments

• Cool translation feature in Microsoft Office

  One of the coolest features in Office that I think many people (well, at least me) overlook is the translation capability. You can type in a word and get a translation immediately in any language you select. I'm currently trying to teach myself Spanish Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:35 PM by frice | 0 Comments

• Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2005 is Incredible

  Visual Studio 2005 code snippets are a neat way to package pieces of code that you want to keep close at hand. These can be code samples that you've created or samples that you find during searches. And creating them is pretty easy with some of the free Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:10 AM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Office Fluent UI, Code Snippets, Ribbon

• New Visual How-to content on the Microsoft Office Developer Center

  Just a quick note to say that there is new developer content on the Office Developer Center ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx ). These include over one hundred Ribbon code snippets that can be dropped into Visual Studio solutions. Read More... Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 6:07 AM by frice | 0 Comments Filed under: Ribbon Open XML Formats Content Controls

• 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

• Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 2

  In the previous blog, I discussed reasons for the new Office Ribbon UI, ways to customize the Ribbon, parts of the Ribbon, and gave an example of an XML customization file. In this blog, I'll talk some about callback procedures that give the Ribbon's Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:00 AM by frice | 1 Comments Filed under: Customizing the Ribbon UI

• Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon UI - Part 1

  This is the first in a series of topics focusing on the new Office 2007 user interface (UI) and Ribbon extensibility, also called RibbonX. By now, you've probably seen blogs, press releases, and other information on the virtues and benefits of the new Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:36 PM by frice | 2 Comments Filed under: Customizing the Ribbon UI

• Let Access do the work of writing SQL statements for you

  One of the views associated with creating queries in the Query designer in Access is the SQL window. The SQL window displays SQL statements that are created behind the scenes when you create a query. However, the SQL window doesn't display just SQL statements. Read More... Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 7:41 AM by frice | 1 Comments

• XBox - Life, What Life?

  Just as Michael Corleone said in Godfather III, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." I'm not talking about organized crime. I'm talking about XBox. Until about two years ago, I was a major Quake affectionato. I couldn't wait to get home Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:00 AM by frice | 6 Comments