Help with Ribbons! AAARGH!

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I found this example on Ron de Bruin's site on how to create a custom
Ribbon...

http://www.rondebruin.nl/ribbon.htm

I followed it to the letter but the Ribbon does not appear at all when
I open the file.

What could I be doing wrong? Are there some settings that I need to
check for this to work?

Why Microsoft? Why would you do this?!?!?!?!

Thanks in advance!
JJ
 
It is difficult to answer, we don't know what you did, but did you enable
macros in the new file?
 
I found this example on Ron de Bruin's site on how to create a custom
Ribbon...

http://www.rondebruin.nl/ribbon.htm

I followed it to the letter but the Ribbon does not appear at all when
I open the file.

What could I be doing wrong? Are there some settings that I need to
check for this to work?

Why Microsoft? Why would you do this?!?!?!?!

Thanks in advance!
JJ
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This isn't a Microsoft problem. The custom ribbon comes from a third
party developer. If you follow Ron's links you'll find other people have
had problems with this routine.

Any special reason you need a custom ribbon? MS lets you add all sorts
of buttons to the task bar at the top of the ribbon.

And if you just don't like the ribbons, it's easy to hide them.

Bill
 
I found this example on Ron de Bruin's site on how to create a custom
Ribbon...

http://www.rondebruin.nl/ribbon.htm

I followed it to the letter but the Ribbon does not appear at all when
I open the file.

What could I be doing wrong? Are there some settings that I need to
check for this to work?

Why Microsoft? Why would you do this?!?!?!?!

Thanks in advance!
JJ
Click to expand...

Here's Microsoft's take on customizing the ribbon:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905530.aspx

It gets pretty detailed...

Bill
 
I enabled the macros. The reason I want to use the Ribbons is because
I don't want to have to stick custom toolbars in the "Add-Ins" Ribbon.
As I understand it, a custom ribbon can be built via XML. I've found
numerous examples of these files. I even used the Custom UI Editor
which comes from Microsoft to build custom ribbons and still...
nothing.

I even took a file from Microsoft's website and opened it up... still
no custom ribbon.

What am I missing here?
 
they made improvements to the ribbon in 2010. you are able to customize the
ribbon instead of having to use the qa toolbar.
don't get me wrong, not a fan, but it makes it more usable.
 
It is hard to say.Can you post the workbook on a file share website so that
we can take a look?

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HTH

Bob

I enabled the macros. The reason I want to use the Ribbons is because
I don't want to have to stick custom toolbars in the "Add-Ins" Ribbon.
As I understand it, a custom ribbon can be built via XML. I've found
numerous examples of these files. I even used the Custom UI Editor
which comes from Microsoft to build custom ribbons and still...
nothing.

I even took a file from Microsoft's website and opened it up... still
no custom ribbon.

What am I missing here?
 
Hi JJ

Are the example workbooks working from my site ?

If you have one typo in your ribbonX you not see the new tab
You can validate the RibbonX with the UI editor
 
I typed everything exactly as it was shown, but I don't see any new
Tabs when I open the Excel file.

I validated what I typed in the Custom UI Editor and everything looked
fine.

I'm not sure why the Tab does not show in Excel.
 
The first time I tried... I typed in the XML and it looked exactly
like what you typed and it didn't work.

I tried it again and it worked. This time I copied the XML as you said
in the instructions.

Do you have an example where a new tab is added when the file is
opened? I looked on your tips but I didn't see anything like that. I'm
probably not looking carefully enough.

Thanks again!
 
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