Category: RibbonX

I am officially an author!

I got confirmation this morning that RibbonX - Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon was sent to the printers on Wednesday. 🙂 (I blogged that it was coming here.) The publishing of this book, which happens officially on December 17, 2007,

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List of Office Control ID’s

Hello folks, Here's another resource that I'm going to add to my RibbonX table of contents... it's the list of Office 2007 Control ID's. This is a package of 24 Excel spreadsheets that list all of the Ribbon control names,

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Office 2007 Icon Gallery

No more fooling around trying to figure out what the idMso is for the built in Excel commands when you're trying to customize the Ribbon. There is a great little download available from Microsoft to add a group of galleries

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A comment on RibbonX callbacks

I found this kind of interesting, but somewhat strange... A couple of nights ago I spent a significant amount of wasted time trying to get a callback to work in Visual Studio 2005. The problem was that I was trying

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 11

The history of posts on the Ribbon can be found at the Ribbon Example Table of Contents. For this installment, I thought I would focus on exploring the button control in depth, explaining what each piece of XML does when

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Modifying the Ribbon – Part 10

The history of posts on the Ribbon can be found at the Ribbon Example Table of Contents. The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to use the Ribbon to interact with our application. Specifically, this example has an

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