Comments on: Excel 2010 Customizable Ribbon

By: Fergus

Fergus — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:21:33 +0000

I have the latest MS Custom UI and use it to hide and unhide the Ribbon on a particular Excel 2007 application I designed (Ribbon hidden for the End-User and unhidden for the Administrators) I use the code
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to unhide the Ribbon in the MS Custom UI and just remove the ‘ before each line to hide the Ribbon.

I have a macro that removes the formula bar etc. and protects the Workbooks only allowing unprotected cells. This works fine. But when I use the MS Custom UI it removes my worksheet protection. Has anyone come across this. Any help much appreciated.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:59:30 +0000

Does anyone know how to get rid of “Add-Ins” button in the Backstage (File) tab in Excel 2010 via XML code?
I mean to delete or to hide or to disable.

By: Bob-Frozen in Chicago

Bob-Frozen in Chicago — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:48:02 +0000

How can I add custom icons to a custom ribbon?

By: Skytte

Skytte — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:00:34 +0000

… [sigh]. I’m pretty sure you can add the pivot table command under the data tab. There is a youtube video for that; however, I’m so disappointed that there is no programmatic way to do this w/o xml and ribbon x.

By: Michael Savastio

Michael Savastio — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:50:32 +0000

One of my IT guys (Chris Biles) came up with this Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 button Migration method:
Attach your toolbars to an empty workbook in Excel 2003 (or earlier). Excel menu: Tools -> Customize -> Click ‘Attach…’ button in the Toolbars-tab, select the toolbars in left panel, then click ‘Copy>>’ and OK.

Next save this empty workbook as an Add-In: select File -> Save As… and select ‘Microsoft Excel Add-In (*.xla)’ in the ‘Save as type’ box.

Now you have an Excel add-in, which you can activate in Excel 2007 (Office button -> Excel-options -> Add-Ins -> Go) and you have all your buttons in the Add-Ins tab of the ribbon. They will now work with the Personal.xls macros in you XLSTART folder.