Sadly I'm not kidding and I'm not sure what kind of plant this would be ...

I'm off evaluating the 8 or 10 3rd party ribbon controls to see how much
work this would be. I already mocked up a screen shot using SnagIt showing
how our custom Excel 2007 ribbon tab appears in Excel 2003 below the
standard Excel 2003 menu and toolbars. I thought the reality of seeing it
would turn them off but quite the reverse!

josh





"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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You're kidding, right? Or is this a plant?

To mimic the productivity gains of the ribbon, you could unplug users' the
keyboard and mouse.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Josh Sale" <jsale@tril dot cod wrote in message
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I have some users who are totally enamored with the new XL 2007 ribbon
interface (doesn't matter why ... they just do) and they now want my Excel
based application to use a ribbon even when running under XL 2003.

So I'm thinking of picking up a 3rd party ribbon control (say from
Infragistics) and hosting it in either a taskpane or a non-modal dialog
that is kind of docked below the XL 2003 toolbars. So this "ribbon"
would reside below the XL2003 menu, toolbars, etc.

I'm just curious if anybody has been down this path already? If so any
advice? Taskpane vs non-modal dialog? Choice of 3rd party ribbon
control? Other?

TIA,

josh