Professional V1.1 Feature Tour - Part 0:
Installation
- Download the latest release
- Remove any previous release of RibbonCustomizer™
- Read the notes about Windows Vista support below if you are installing RibbonCustomizer™ in Windows Vista.
- Run the exe-file you downloaded in the first step. If you see a totally unexpected setup program (for a completely different program), download the zipped version of RibbonCustomizer™, extract it and run setup.exe directly.
- Work your way through the setup wizard and install the add-in.
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Open any of the Ribbon applications (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint or Word) and find the Customize group. In Excel, PowerPoint and Word, you will find it on the View Tab; in Access and Outlook on the Add-Ins Tab. The PowerPoint View tab with the Customize group highlighted is shown in the following screenshot:

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Click the Customize Ribbon text of the button indicated above and the add-in menu opens, as shown in the following screenshot.

- If you purchased RibbonCustomizer Professional, then use number 3 (Enter Serial Key) to enter your serial key and associated email address. The activation process is fully offline and no information is transmitted over the Internet.
- If you want to use the Starter Edition only, then ignore the three menu items highlighted above.
- If you want to start your 30 full days trial of RibbonCustomizer™ Professional, then use menu item number 1.
- At any point in time, you can get to the website where you can purchase RibbonCustomizer™ Professional using menu item number 2.
Windows Vista Support
- RibbonCustomizer™ has to be installed separately for each user.
- A standard user in Windows Vista can install RibbonCustomizer™. The setup program will not trigger a User Account Control (UAC) prompt.
- If you are a user with administrative rights and installed RibbonCustomizer™ while User Account Control (UAC) was turned on, then it will fail to work with UAC off. Please uninstall and reinstall RibbonCustomizer™ while UAC is off in that case.
- If you are a user with administrative rights and installed RibbonCustomizer™ while User Account Control (UAC) was turned off, then you will be able to use it with UAC on and off. However, you will only be able to remove RibbonCustomizer™ with UAC off.
