How do I add a description to an Excel AddIn like in the picture below:
You can see the Euro Tools AddIn has one.
Like so:
File, Info, Properties, Advanced properties. Click the Summary tab. The Title is what shows up as the name of your add-in. The Comments section shows up as description.
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I attempted to add a description of my add-in by
Choose Developer➪Modify➪Document Panel
But there is no Modify option under Developer tab on my Excel (I am using Office 365ProPlus). How do I display this option?
The description of an Excel add-in is taken from the "Comments" Document property which can be found here: File, Info, click the "Properties" dropdown and select "Advanced Properties". Whatever you type into the "Title" box is what will appear in the list of add-ins once your add-in has been selected.
I have a macro that I have coded in a VBA module, saved in a .dot file. However, when I go to Customize Ribbon in Word and try to add it, it does not show up. I have tried saving it in the Word STARTUP folder as well as the Custom Office Templates folder.
I would like to have the macro set up so that it loads in all Word Documents as a clickable button on the Word toolbar/ribbon.
I can tell you for dotm files. I think it should work the same for dot. However, you might as well switch to dotm since you have Word 2013.
Exit Word.
Put the dotm in %appdata%\Microsoft\Word\Startup. You mentioned you have already done this, which is good!
Restart Word.
Check File | Options | Add-Ins and make sure your dotm is listed under "Active Application Add-ins".
If not, hit "Go" at the bottom to manage "COM Add-ins," and hit the checkmark by your dotm's name.
Right-click the ribbon and select "Customize Ribbon."
In the "Customize Ribbon" dialog, under "Choose commands from," select the "Macros" category.
All your macros should be listed there, by project name. You may have to hunt through the list as they will all start with Project. by default. You can change your project's name in the VBA editor, Properties pane, to make it easier to find.
Choose the destination and hit Add>>.
Tested in Word 2013, Windows 8, with numerous dotm files.
I am new in excel vb.net programming. I am building a excel add-in like the image attached. I have searched but did not find a way to create its UI like the attached image. Please let me know if its possible or not, if yes, please provide me the links.
Thank you so much
You can easily add your own buttons, graphics to Excel or any Office product (Word/Power Point/Excel/ etc) by simply right clicking the ribbon area, then choosing [Customize the Ribbon].
In the next window, if you want your buttons to be displayed on their own Ribbon, create a new Ribbon.
Add as many buttons as you want, and you can separate them if you like.
You can read more about Customizing Ribbons in Office products here.
You can create a new tab on your ribbon as Ahmad has mentioned. You can then add buttons to your new ribbon tab and have them execute macros that you have written. For example, if while working in Excel, you have to highlight cells often with yellow, you can write a macro in your personal workbook then have a button in your new tab execute that macro.
I am in the process of creating a VBA add-in for Excel 2010, and I used the "Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office" tool to create my own ribbon.
However, I would like to give the user the option to load my add-in without displaying the ribbon, or with different parts of the ribbon visible.
With menus, I know you can completely control them programmatically, but ribbons seem to work differently.
Is there a way in VBA to not load my customUI.xml ribbon tabs on startup?
Is there a way to remove items from (or add items to) these tabs at runtime?
here is a whole slew of help on this subject Awesome Ribbon Help. I think points 2 and 3 are of particular interest to you.
I only have Word 2007 and a Word 2003 template (.dot file).
When I open it, I can see it has macro's in it, stored in modules. I can also see that the template adds buttons to the add-ins tab in the ribbon.
How can I modify these buttons? Like the text or which macro each button triggers?
As a test I deleted all macros in the template, saved it, restared it, and it still gave me custom buttons in the Add-in tab. Of course if I press those buttons, it gives me error that the macro is not there. Which is fune. Then, if I view the template's code (Alt-F11), there is really no code at all. Also no Add-in is loaded (as seen in the Word options > Add ins window). So how does the Word 2003 template know which buttons to load? Where is the custom toolbar info stored in the Word 2003 template?
i am not sure i fully understood your question. Yet, here are a few elements.
Modify the buttons generated by a macro
You have to change the vba code. See :
this link for Word 2003 : http://www.ozgrid.com/VBA/custom-menus.htm
this link for Word 2007+ : http://www.rondebruin.nl/ribbon.htm
Buttons already loaded
If your custom buttons still appear after you deleted the code :
i'd think that you missed some part of the code to delete, can you re-check ? in every module of the doc
are you sure you didn't save a doc instead of saving the template ?
If these tips doesn't answer your question, please give us some more info on your problem or if possible, give us the template you are using.
Regards,
Max