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