I am trying to put custom icon to Visio Document for custom ribbon. When I using Excel I can use utility “Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office”. For example, I can write next xml in utility and insert some picture:
Custom UI Editor
In Excel all working excellent.
But when I trying use this way in Visio, I don’t see picture on ribbon when I opening Visio-document.
After that I opening “Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office” for Visio-document I also don’t see inserted picture that I inserted before.
Custom UI Editor after opening Visio-document
Can anyone help me out with my problem? Thank you.
This is a known issue in Visio. Custom icons in .vsdx file simply do not work.
If you are really determined to have custom pictures, you should do it otherwise.
Like via VBA macro, by writing a callback, i.e. instead of image specifying getImage pointing to some callback function to get the custom image. Or even by creating a full-blown extension.
Note - Microsoft-defined (idMso) images work fine.
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I want to add a button in microsoft word that when I click it opens microsoft explorer to insert a file in the word page.
I already have the button but dont know what action should i do to implement that.
Any help?
You could, instead of adding a Button in your document, add the Insert File command to the QAT for that document.
This is a bit more subtle but works in non-macro enabled documents. In my opinion it is much easier to do.
You would want to draw your user's attention to it. Many places will not allow macros to run. It may run on Macs, which will not work with your ActiveX button. Here is my webpage on Modifying the QAT.
I am currently working on an PowerPoint Addin and I am currently finishing the Ribbon. I'd like to create a control to change the size of objects that looks similar to the inbuild button "ShapeWidth" and "ShapeHeight":
However, I couldn't find the correct control type and hence I built the below by myself using an editbox and buttons. Although it's working I find the other style way cleaner but I haven't found the correct type.
Not all Ribbon X (Office Fluent UI) control types that Microsoft uses in its Office applications are made available to third-party developers. This, I'm afraid, falls into that category.
You should probably be able to get the image, at least, by specifying the idMso for the built-in control.
I have a presentation that needs to be regularly updated. To facilitate this quickly I have written a simple form in VBA which I would like to be accessible from the ribbon (or via a button in editor mode).
However I do not want the button in the ribbon to be visible in other Power point documents.
Is it possible to stop customizations from being applied globally?
Thanks in advance
XML ribbon customizations in a PPTM file are only visible when that file is open and has focus. It sounds like this is what you'd want to do ... store the VBA and RibbonX code in the file you want to work with.
If the XML ribbon customizations are in an add-in (ie. PPAM) that's loaded, the customizations will be present for any open file.
#Cilvic has a good point (thanks!). If you're adding customizations to the Ribbon or QAT via the built-in customization feature, these will also be there whenever PPT is open. You can't make them appear only when a certain file is open.
Where are your customizations (and are you in fact using XML or are you creating command bars)?
I wondering if its possible to use Microsoft Word as a text editor in a VB.Net project?
My project currently uses a Rich Text Box to allow the user to right a report which is then saved and a report generated. I was wondering if i could switch to Word for better formatting and layout options, be it embedded in the actual form or in another form thats called (if that makes it easier to assign the control).
I have worked on opening Word itself via a button click but would like to have it incorporated in the project. All users that would actually use the program would have one of the more recent versions of word installed.
Any pointers to websites would be great as i'm constantly searching but not getting very far
Thanks
We have following requirement to be done via excel and VBA programming. Please check and let me know if it feasible to do so and if not what way would be best to do it.
There would be excel spreadsheet say excel 2007/2010 with 2 tabs.
1st tab contains normal excel data
In 2nd tab user can enter a particular value and then click on a button in same tab. Is it possibly to have a button in excel tab and can it raise events like windows/web applications?
Now if button can be kept in excel and it can raise button click event then on such an event we need to create xml files. Is it possible to create xml files adhering to schema using excel &/or VBA programming
You need to activate the developer tab (from backstage go to Options and check the visibility of this tab) to get access to normal windows controls, like buttons and drop-down lists etc. You can easily place those in Excel sheets and write event handlers: the controls support the full range of events, including OnClick, OnMouseEnter etc...
You can write custom text files directly from VBA, but you can't validate those. The usual way to do so is just to concatenate small XML blocks into a bigger file, so XML output is more like a normal text output. But it works fine and as long as you do not need to perform something really complicated it is also ok.
EDIT: You can easily add references to custom COM objects (.dll or .ocx) and use them directly in your VBA code. One very helpful suggestion (see the comment below) is to use the MS XML library.
To add a reference just open the code editor (Alt + F11) and then go to Options -> References. Most of the references you need will be already in the list and you just have to check them, but you can also add your own custom libraries by clicking on Browse.