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Gregory La Due - 18 Sep 2007 23:12 GMT

I just installed Word 2007 and I am trying to update tool bars I created for
previous versions but I cannot locate any commands to customize them. How
do you add/edit commands located in the Add-In's menu of the Ribbon?

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Graham Mayor - 19 Sep 2007 05:32 GMT

You don't in Word 2007 - but see
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

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> I just installed Word 2007 and I am trying to update tool bars I
> created for previous versions but I cannot locate any commands to
> customize them. How do you add/edit commands located in the Add-In's
> menu of the Ribbon?

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Greg Maxey - 19 Sep 2007 11:24 GMT

Gregory, Graham

It is not so much you don't, but you do in an entirely different way.
Graham's solution may very well be the easiet and suitable situation for
your current needs and he is correct in saying you don't use Word 2007 to
update previous version toolbars that display on the Word2007 Addin tab of
the ribbon.

You can add a customeXML file to the Word2007 editions of your documents
with customized toolbars and use the XML file to directly customize the
ribbon.

For example, I have a Word2007 edition of my ToggleObjects Addin that uses
the following customXML to customize the ribbon:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui">
<ribbon startFromScratch="false">
<tabs>
<tab id="CustomTab" label="Toggle Objects">
<group id="mygroup1" label="Check Boxes">
<button id="Button1" label="Checked Box" size="normal"
onAction="InsertCheckIt"/>
<button id="Button2" label="Cleared Check Box" size="normal"
onAction="InsertBlankBox1"/>
</group>
<group id="mygroup2" label="X Boxes">
<button id="Button3" label="X'd Box" size="normal" onAction="InsertXit"/>
<button id="Button4" label="Cleared X Box" size="normal"
onAction="InsertUnXit"/>
</group>
<group id="mygroup3" label="Radio Buttons">
<button id="Button5" label="Active Button" size="normal"
onAction="InsertStickit"/>
<button id="Button6" label="Inactive Button" size="normal"
onAction="InsertUnStickit"/>
</group>
<group id="mygroup4" label="Arrow Indicators">
<button id="Button7" label="Up Arrow" size="normal"
onAction="InsertUpCheck"/>
<button id="Button8" label="Down Arrow" size="normal"
onAction="InsertDownCheck"/>
</group>
<group id="mygroup5" label="Mood">
<button id="Button9" label="Happy" size="normal" onAction="InsertSmiley"/>
<button id="Button10" label="Sad" size="normal" onAction="InsertFrowny"/>
</group>
</tab>
</tabs>
</ribbon>
</customUI>

You can download the template with the xml and corresponding template vba:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Add_Toggle_Objects.htm

For more on customizing the ribbon see:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm

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> You don't in Word 2007 - but see
> http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm
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>> customize them. How do you add/edit commands located in the Add-In's
>> menu of the Ribbon?

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Graham Mayor - 19 Sep 2007 12:20 GMT

True - and there is also the http://ribboncustomizer.com/ which might make
the job a tad simpler?

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> Gregory, Graham
>
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>>> customize them. How do you add/edit commands located in the
>>> Add-In's menu of the Ribbon?

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Gregory La Due - 19 Sep 2007 15:03 GMT

Am I understanding this correctly, there is no way to add/modify what is
displayed in the add-in part of the ribbon without a third party control or
reverting the document back to a previous version of word.

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> True - and there is also the http://ribboncustomizer.com/ which might make
> the job a tad simpler?
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>>>> customize them. How do you add/edit commands located in the
>>>> Add-In's menu of the Ribbon?

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Graham Mayor - 20 Sep 2007 05:38 GMT

You need either a third party tool to edit the ribbon, or you need to edit
the document in an earlier version of Word that can produce custom toolbars.
It is the custom toolbars that the Add-Ins tab displays..

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> Am I understanding this correctly, there is no way to add/modify what
> is displayed in the add-in part of the ribbon without a third party
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>>>>> customize them. How do you add/edit commands located in the
>>>>> Add-In's menu of the Ribbon?

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