VSTO: Changing Existing Word Ribbon Tabs
Using Visual Studio 2008 Pro, is it possible to make changes to the existing Word ribbon items? For example, can I add an additional mail merge option to the "Finish" group in the "Mailing" tab? ...
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Tooltip on Outlook Add-in Ribbon
Hi, I created a outlook add-in using VSTO 2008. I didn't create a separate ribbon/group for this add-in. Instead VSTO automatically create the add-in button in the built-in Ribbon when Outlook starts. Now how do I customize the tooltip of that add-in icon? Here is the snippet to add label and icon for my add-in [Microsoft.Office.Tools....
Open files in Word via ribbon code-behind
Using VSTO, I've created a custom tab in the Ribbon designer and added some groups and button controls there. When user clicks one of the buttons, I'd like to connect to a SharePoint site and open a word document from it in Word (an instance is already open). I'm able to connect to the SharePoint site already and have the URLs to the d...
Using Ribbon as tab control
I would like to create application with ribbon interface that looks and behaves like this: application have one main form with ribbon ribbon has multiple tabs when user switches tab on ribbon, panel below ribbon changes and displays content related to ribbon panel. That way, ribbon tab acts as if it is tab over whole window. For exa...
Is the MS Ribbon/Office UI License worth worrying about?
Imagine I want to create an application which is very similar to MS Word 2007, using C++ in VS2008 and the MFC Feature Pack. For the ribbon, there are 3 options available to me: Use the ribbon from MFC Feature Pack without acquiring a license. Probably dodgy in the long run. You're all right until your product becomes a global success,...
Ribbon app crashes on random systems
Ribbon application crash on some systems while it works fine on others. I have statically linked to MFC. Still it crashes on random systems. I debugged it on the system on which it crashed and found that the FindByID returns NULL for CMFCRibbonSlider in OnUpdate.. function. Other ribbon controls are working fine. CMFCRibbonBar* pRibbon ...
How to get Ribbon custom Tabs IDs?
Hi, I am working with a Custom Ribbon in Power Point, I need to iterate through all tabs and get the ID of them. The Ribbon contains Tabs added from different projects (C++, C#) as addins and I don't know their IDs. I am using VBA to handle the events fired from the Ribbon. How do I do to get the ID from all tabs in the Ribbon using VB...
unresolved external symbol _CLSID_ScenicIntentUIFramework with GUID
I'm trying to build a ribbon app in visual studio and I got that linker error. After looking through the headers, I noticed that CLSID_ScenicIntentFramework is defined as extern const CLSID. The think is, I can't seem to figure out which library I need to link to (or other header i need to import?). I'd really appreciated some help too....
Ribbon control bug? (causes cutoff in vista)
I've found that when I take a simple form containing only a ribbon bar and a status bar, it's cutoff. The control you see above the status bar was later removed. The same cutoff occurs whatever control happens to be present. Later I removed the status bar & put a memo control there instead with the same result. without ribbon bar: wit...
How do I disable/remove menu item "PowerPoint Options" in PowerPoint 2007?
I'm trying to lock down PowerPoint and I can get rid of some of the commands by using some ribbon-customization xml and group policies. But I need to remove or disable two more options. PowerPoint Options - This button shows when you click on the Office icon This item is also available in Word (Word Options) and Excel (Excel Options), ...
Office 2007 Style UI Ribbons: DevExpress or TMS?
Who provides the better solution for this particular component? ...
RibbonBar with Windows7 look and feel?
Do you know any ribbon with windows 7 look and feel? ...
how to get the MS word screen position from the Ribbon control?
I want to get the word position, so that I can position my dialogs relative to the word on the screen in the event handler in the ribbon control private void button1_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e) How to get that? I mean there is no location or Point property which tells the screen coordinates. ...
how can i hide TRibbon pages?
i'm using delphi 2009's TRibbon component. certain pages are not relevant depending on the application state. how can i hide a TRibbon page? RibbonPage1.Visible:=false doesn't really hide the page... is this maybe not allowed by the spec from microsoft? thank you for you help! mp ...
How can I add a ribbon menu to an existing MFC application?
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has ribbon menu support. Is it possible to make use of that in an existing MFC application that was not created with a ribbon menu? ...
Read values from the Office 2007 ribbon using VBA
Using VBA, can I find out the value of a text (combobox) control on the Word 2007 ribbon? Say I'd want to read the currently selected font name in the "Home" tab. I've seen an example using the IAccessible interface to do some interaction with the Ribbon (namely enumerating it), but it seems reading a control value is not possible. Is ...
Adding Ribbon support to Excel COM Addin
I have a MS Office COM addin written in C# (Visual Studio 2005) and uses a COM Shim dll. The addin DOES NOT use VSTO technology and supports Excel XP and higher. The addin adds a new toolbar and a menu. The addin works fine in Excel 2007 but it is displayed in a separate tab named "AddIns" along with its toolbars and menu. I want integr...
How do I dynamically change the text of a CMFCRibbonLabel
My CMDIFrameWndEx derived main frame window uses a CMFCRibbonStatusBar to which I add a CMFCRibbonLabel. I'd like to change the text of this label at runtime: m_pLabel->SetText(description); m_pLabel->Redraw(); It only updates the text but not the rectangle in which to draw it. So if the original text was too short, the new string won...
C# Scenic Ribbon
It astounds me that Microsoft don't have a winform representation for their new Scenic ribbon. I definitely do not want to reinvent my company's main application into a WPF application. Surely a C# winform implementation would do wonders for adoption? ...
Remove ribbon bar in MFC c++
Hello, I'm trying to remove the ribbon bar, but let stay the quick access tool bar and the icon orb, can anyone tell me if this is possible? and if yes how i can do this? I try to hide it by calling the RemoveAllCategories function and then minimizing the ribbon, the problem is that the bar that holds the categories tabs stays visible ...