Add custom group to Home tab in Outlook 2010 using VBA

Question

Hi,

Can't seem to find any simple VBA tutorials for adding a custom group to the Home tab in the Outlook 2010 ribbon.

Shouldn't it be a couple of simple steps involving something like traversing objects in the Home tab and programmatically add the group with controls etc, or redefine the XML that describes the Home tab.

Is there any sample VBA code or articles that have this simple example? Specifically I'm trying to add a custom group with 1 text field and 1 button that fires a custom macro.

Cheers, Dave --Trindaz on Fedang #outlook-2010-vba

Answer 1

I wasn't able to get any VBA working for this, but I was able to...

1. Create a new Outlook 2007 project type in Visual Studio 2008
2. Add a new Ribbon (XML) item to the project
3. Follow the instructions in the sample code in the newly created Ribbon1.vb
4. Make sure the <tab> element in Ribbon1.xml has property idMso="TabMail"
5. Publish and run the installer application to get the new items appearing in the Home tab of the Outlook ribbon

Done!