Customize Office 2007
Ribbon User Interface
The Ribbon UI is the most visible new thing in Office 2007, or at
for least the programs that have it. Those programs are Access,
Excel, Outlook (except the main window), PowerPoint and Word. It
presents a radical departure from the standard UI tenants...
(read more about the Ribbon UI)
Office 2007 has been the most open Office release ever. Never before
has any comparable amount of information about an Office release
been made available so long before its release. More importantly,
never before have the Office teams given the public so much insight
into their design, development and testing philosophies and
processes, as well as responded this actively to comments and
critique. The main communication medium has been a collection of
blogs (a full list is due in a later post). Among all of them
however, one blog stands out. It has been by far the most active...
(read more about the Office UI Bible)
If you ask me about the customizability of the new Ribbon UI in
Office 2007, my answer would be: too little, too difficult. Compared
to previous Office versions, especially Office 2003, 2007 simply has
a serious customization deficiency. In fact, most users will
probably conclude that the Ribbon cannot be customized at all.
(read more about customizing Office 2007)
RibbonCustomizer™
RibbonCustomizer™ is an add-in for Microsoft® Access™, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint® and Word 2007. It allows you to customize the Ribbon User Interface with a few mouse clicks! Microsoft did not include that ability in Office 2007, but with this add-in you are no longer stuck with a static User Interface!
RibbonX
RibbonX is the XML-based language Microsoft created for customizing the Ribbon User Interface. RibbonX can be used in documents & templates (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), databases (Access) and COM add-ins (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word). It is not just a topic for developers. It is also a topic for advanced users who want to have a customized Ribbon for their documents, templates and databases.