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Do Your Outlook UI Elements Need Counseling? - Get your Form Regions, Ribbons, and Task Panes Talking to Each Other Again (Norm Estabrook)
03 June 09 03:30 PM

So you want to open a task pane by using a button on the Ribbon. You also want a form region that appears in an e-mail item to detect the state of a control on a custom task pane so that you can add or remove an option that appears in a Ribbon menu right? Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008, add-ins, Office Development

Here is a Way to Get the ID of a Built-in Outlook Command Bar Menu (Norm Estabrook)
30 April 09 02:09 PM

Recently, a forum poster asked us how he could add a submenu item to a built-in menu item in Outlook.  Note that these are not controls that appear on the Ribbon of an Outlook item, but rather the menus that drop down from the top of the Outlook Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Command bars, Office 2007, Office 2003, VS2008, add-ins, Office Development

Clearing Off Custom Menu Items in Word (Norm Estabrook)
14 April 09 11:37 AM

Last month I posted this article that described how to prevent your add-in from creating duplicate menu items in Word.  If you have been experimenting with customization contexts, you might have several menu items that appear when you right click Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Office 2007, Office 2003, Word Object Model, Word 2007, Word 2003, VS2008, Office Development

My Word Add-In Creates Duplicate Menu Items. Make it Stop! (Norm Estabrook)
06 March 09 12:33 PM

So I want my add-in to place a custom command into the shortcut menu. The shortcut menu is that cool menu that appears when you right-click a document. Great, so I read some articles in MSDN, write some code, run the add-in and voila there it is! I give Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 13 Comments    

Filed under: Norm Estabrook, Command bars, Office 2007, Office 2003, Word 2007, Word 2003, add-ins, Office 14, Office 2010

Making a Custom Ribbon Appear Only for a Custom Outlook Form (Norm Estabrook)
28 January 09 12:09 PM

Many of you have posted questions to the VSTO Forum about how to make custom tabs, groups and controls appear only in cases where the user opens a custom form in Outlook. The reason why that is difficult to accomplish is because there is no way to specify Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Outlook 2007, VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008

Setting the Width of a Drop Down, Combo Box, or Edit Box in the Ribbon Designer (Norm Estabrook)
19 December 08 10:56 AM

Recently, a developer posted a question to the VSTO forum asking us how to set the width of a drop down control by using the Ribbon Designer ( http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/8965ae5a-9c02-4aec-9178-675650b7044e/ ). As this person Read More...

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Filed under: VSTO, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon, Office 2007, VS2008

I Just Want to Format a Cell in My Excel Worksheet (Norm Estabrook)
03 June 08 10:41 AM

So you just want to write some code to format a cell in a worksheet. However, there isn't a help topic in sight that shows you how to do it. There may be a topic out there, but you don't have time to sift through the web searching for it. You're not alone. Read More...

Postedby VSTO Team | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Norm Estabrook, Office 2007, Office 2003, Excel 2003, Excel 2007

Making a Custom Group Appear in the Message Tab of a Mail Item (Norm Estabrook)
09 April 08 09:49 AM

You can add a custom group to the Message tab of an Outlook mail item.  For example, here is a custom group named "MyCoolGroup" that I added to the message tab of a new message: Outlook lets you open a message in the following two modes: Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon

Share a Ribbon Customization between Office Applications (Norm Estabrook)
10 March 08 01:01 PM

We have received feedback from several folks that they would like design one Ribbon by using the Ribbon visual designer, and then re-use that same Ribbon in more than one Office application. This approach makes sense. If my custom tab looks the same for Read More...

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Filed under: Outlook 2007, Norm Estabrook, Ribbon

Automatically Deploy Any File to SharePoint When you Debug a SharePoint Solution (Norm Estabrook)
31 January 08 11:30 AM

When you debug a SharePoint workflow project, the workflow deployment process copies the feature.xml and workflow.xml to a feature directory on SharePoint. You can configure your solution to deploy other files as well. For example, you might want to deploy Read More...

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Filed under: SharePoint workflow, Norm Estabrook