Grouping related ribbon tabs
You should have been a lawyer!
Thanks.
"Jim Rech" wrote in message
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Do you think its worth burning an incident with MS on it?
Personally I wouldn't. That's because I've spend a lot of time developing
ribbons and I'm pretty familiar with the XSD and what is possible. I've
also looked at all the examples and postings by MS during the beta test
and
afterward and I've seen nothing that supports developer supergroups. But
absence of evident is not 100% evidence of absence I suppose.
--
Jim
"Josh Sale" <jsale@tril dot cod wrote in message
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|I agree its eye-catching, but beyond that it does allow you to abbreviate
| the tab names. For example from "PivotTable Options" to just "Options"
and
| "PivotTable Design" to just "Design". In my case, I would use my
| application's name to identify the "supergroup" and the tab names to
| identify the major functional areas.
|
| How sure are you that it can't be done by mere mortal add-ins? Do you
think
| its worth burning an incident with MS on it?
|
| Thanks.
|
| josh
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|
|
| "Jim Rech" wrote in message
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| I want that kind of grouping for my application's two tabs
|
| I don't believe users can create their own contextual tabs, or
anything
| that
| looks like them. I think you just have to add your two ordinary tabs.
| And,
| although that "PivotTable Tools" supergroup (my term) is eye-catching,
I
| don't see that it adds a lot of functionality anyway.
|
| --
| Jim
| "Josh Sale" <jsale@tril dot cod wrote in message
| ...
| | First let me plead guilty to minor cross-posting ... I've posted
this
| | message to both ms.public.excel.programming and
| | ms.public.office.developer.com.add_ins because I wasn't sure where
it
| best
| | fit. So I apologize in advance if I've offended anybody.
| |
| | With that out of the way, let me explain what I'm trying to do with
my
| Excel
| | 2007 add-in.
| |
| | I want my add-in to have two ribbon tabs. Each tab represents a
| | substantially different group of functionality. (A larger
| differentiation
| | than can be nicely handled using ribbon groups.) However both tabs
are
| | related to the one application.
| |
| | I've seen how some applications use contextual tabs to create the
kind
| of
| | grouping I want in the ribbon. For example, when you select a pivot
| table
| | in Excel the ribbon displays a (I hope this is the right term)
| contextual
| | tab group of "PivotTable Tools" with "Options" and "Design" tabs
below
| it.
| |
| | I want that kind of grouping for my application's two tabs but I
want
it
| to
| | always be visible, no matter what is currently selected in the
| worksheet.
| |
| | Is this possible? Any suggestions will be very appreciated.
| |
| | TIA,
| |
| | josh
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