Comments on: Customize RibbonX UI for Excel 2007 with COM Add-ins (classic VB)

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Has anyone figured out yet how to suppress or change the customized help?

By: aleks

aleks — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:39:00 +0000

Have you been able to figure out:

2. hide it / remove it if there are no customized help available?"

Thanks
Alex

By: Rocky

Rocky — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:38:00 +0000

Hi Dennis

Really nice article!

Unfortunately, I can't create buttons with my own picture - as you discribe. I'm asking me, if the pictures has to match some specifications (color depth and resolution).

Have you any experiance with several kind of images (jpeg, bmp, ico)? Or could you make your project available for donload (within your ressource file)?

Thanks in advance!

Regards
Rocky - from Switzerland

By: XL-Dennis

XL-Dennis — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:06:00 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for Your comments

Let see what MSFT will provide us now when the B2TR is available.

Kind regards,
Dennis

By: Mike Rosenblum

Mike Rosenblum — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:09:00 +0000

Hi Dennis, nice article.

I actually like how you make your XML actually readable, it’s a nice style.

When you ask here:

“Does anyone know how we can:
1. hook up the F1 button to a customized help when ‘pressing the F1-button for more help’?
2. hide it / remove it if there are no customized help available?”

I think that as of now it either cannot be done or Microsoft has not yet exposed this aspect to Ribbon extensibility (or has not yet told us how). Right now, hitting F1 goes straight to generic Office Help, but it’s pretty obvious that this is intended to allow developers to link F1 within the supertip to a specific help file (at some point, anyway). I would think that a ‘HelpFileID’ or the like would be set as an attribute for the control… We’ll have to wait and see, for now I’ve not seen this discussed anywhere (and a quick Google search suggests the same).

I know you’re away for the week… I hope all goes well for you!
Mike