Author: Ken Puls

Using CustomUI Editor

If you are working with RibbonX code in Microsoft Office, you no doubt use the CustomUI editor from OpenXML Developer. The tool has is an essential one for working with RibbonX and Office as it offers us the following advantages:

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 6

As mentioned in Part 5 of this series, this post will display how to change the value of a Ribbon control from a VBA procedure. For this example, we will continue to work with the case presented in Part 5,

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 5

Previous posts on this subject: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Creating a CheckBox Until now, all the posts have focused on creating buttons in a variety of styles, shapes and sizes. Today, we'll take a look at

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 4

Previous posts on this subject: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Using Your Own Picture on a Button Well... maybe not your own picture... unless you're feeling vain today. 😉 I really meant using an image of your choice. This

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 3

Here's the previous parts to this: Part 1 Part 2 Using Excel's Images on Custom Ribbon Controls In Part 2, we built the following custom group on a custom tab: This time, we'll replace all the happy face images with

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 2

Part 1 of this series can be found here. In this post, I'm going to show a few more examples of customizing the ribbon using buttons. (We'll get to other types of controls later.) All of these are variations of

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Intelli-UDF Formulas

Now this is kind of cool... In Excel 2003, when you opened the brackets on a formula, it would launch a little help feature as shown below: In Excel 2007, they go one step further. As soon as you hit

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Virtualization

Over the past year and a bit, I've begun playing with Virtualization on my PC. The reason was mainly because I got very tired of having to rebuild my OS when I inevitably got it so cluttered with garbage that

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