Is it possible to automatically add a button to Excel Ribbon to run a macro when a user open an Excel file. Problem is I have developed a macro and would like to share it with my group members. Now on my personal computer I could customize the ribbon and assign a given button to my macro but this ribbon customization will only be available for me. So after I send out the workbook to members of my group, they will not see the button that I have assigned for the macro. I could add an ActiveX control but this will be on the sheet itself and not on the ribbon (Excel 2010)
Is there a way to do this, without having each member customize his/her ribbon.
Thanks!
I think that you are talking about VSTO, which is the add-ins framework of MS Office, and normally, you need the VS Studio, not Express, to develop your add-ins application.
And at first, you can go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410115%28v=office.12%29.aspx to read the simple guide about the Ribbon button integration, and about other integration way and method, you can read the MSDN directly.
And of course, as a professional VSTO developer, if need, I can help you too. :)
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I have written 2 Macros in PowerPoint and added the Macros to a customized ribbon named 'My Ribbon' to make those macros available at a click of a button. The only problem is the Ribbon disappears when someone else opens the PowerPoint on a different computer. The macros stay with the file but the customized ribbons do not and we have to create another customized ribbon, and place both macros to the ribbon every time we share the file across our drive.(Which is quite annoying)
I want to permanently append the customized ribbon to the PowerPoint so that anyone who opens the PowerPoint will be able to see the personalized ribbon with both Macros already on their version of PowerPoint.
VBA macros are not designed for distributing the code on multiple PCs. If you need to get a solution which can be installed on other PCs you need to develop an add-in. That's exactly they were invented for. Moreover, you can create an installer for the add-in. It will be installed as other applications on your PC. See Walkthrough: Creating Your First Application-Level Add-in for PowerPoint to get started.
If you choose to stay with VBA macros, you will have to edit the open xml document. See Customize the Word Ribbon User Interface for more information. The process is common for almost all Office applications (Outlook does't support that).
You could use such a program like Ribbon Editor to customize the Ribbon for your pptm file only. (No need for an AddIn it you want it deployed only with the file)
I've tried many things and read up quite a bit but I cannot figure this out.
I cannot create an add-in so I have to use VBA.
I want to add a a button to the right-click context menu when I right-click on a user. Is this possible?
Yes, it is possible to customize the context menu in Outlook. See Customizing Context Menus in Office 2010 for more information.
But VBA doesn't allow to customize the Fluent UI in Outlook, you need to develop an add-in instead.
I have been working on an add-in with some short-cuts for PowerPoint 2010.
I am able to make the add-in "tab" so that I can access my macros from PowerPoint after installing the add-in.
However, I cannot add the macros to my Quick Access Toolbar, or otherwise create shortcuts.
This creates a need to use a very extensive key combination to access the add-in shortcuts, eliminating part of the rationale behind them.
Is there any way to make PowerPoint macros that I can then link to the Quick Access Toolbar?
I import bsa file as module. And macro run properly. I need to set up these macros buttons in to Quick Access Toolbar (QAT). I do it manually from standart way as well. But i want to make this automatically with macro (VBA). How these macros assigned to the buttons and buttons set up on the QAT by VBA inside macro?
I searched a lot, and the only way I was able to find was using Office Fluent User Interface.
See this article that walks you through doing it. The example is Excel's QAT, but since all Office Products share the same Type Library, you should be able to adapt it for MS Word 2010.
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.