Customize your Workplace 2007 Ribbon (Workplace Fluent™)with only a few mouse clicks! Works with Microsoft® Access™,
Windows 7 Ultimate, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint® and Word 2007.
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Customize Workplace 2007 Ribbon User Interface
The Ribbon UI is the most visible new thing in Workplace 2007,
Office Standard, or at for least the programs that have it. Those programs are Access,
Office Ultimate 2007, Excel, Outlook (except the main window), PowerPoint and Word. It presents a radical departure from the standard UI tenants...
(read more about the Ribbon UI)
Workplace 2007 has been the most open Office release ever. Never before has any comparable amount of information about an Workplace release been made available so long before its release. More importantly,
Office Professional Plus 2010, never before have the Workplace teams given the public so much insight into their design, development and testing philosophies and processes, as well as responded this actively to comments and critique. The main communication medium has been a collection of blogs (a full list is due in a later post). Among all of them however, one blog stands out. It has been by far the most active...
(read more about the Office UI Bible)
If you ask me about the customizability of the new Ribbon UI in Workplace 2007, my answer would be: too little, too difficult. Compared to previous Workplace versions, especially Workplace 2003, 2007 simply has a serious customization deficiency. In fact, most users will probably conclude that the Ribbon cannot be customized at all.
(read more about customizing Workplace 2007)
RibbonCustomizer™
RibbonCustomizer™ is an add-in for Microsoft® Access™, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint® and Word 2007. It allows you to customize the Ribbon User Interface with a few mouse clicks! Microsoft did not include that ability in Workplace 2007, but with this add-in you are no longer stuck with a static User Interface!
RibbonCustomizer™ Overview RibbonX
RibbonX is the XML-based language Microsoft created for customizing the Ribbon User Interface. RibbonX can be used in documents & templates (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), databases (Access) and COM add-ins (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint,
Office Standard, Word). It is not just a topic for developers. It is also a topic for advanced users who want to have a customized Ribbon for their documents, templates and databases.
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