When you hover over a button the background turns orange to show you the control you are about to select – could you at this stage start the animated gif, swapping it for the inbuilt graphic??

just a thought.

A while back, I built a table-driven ribbon customizer utility for Excel 2007.
The gist is of the utility is this:

You fill in a table specifying the custom buttons you want and which tabs you want them on. Then the utility automatically builds the custom XML and adds it to a new workbook or existing workbook, effectively applying your Ribbon customizations without writing one line of code.

I’ve also made it so that the call-back functions are also created and added, so the buttons can be adjusted to call an existing macro with very little effort!

You can download the utility here: http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/Custom_UI_Builder.zip

i keep my file saved as a maro enabled workbook, so what affect would saving it as a xlsm file have on all my rich content, if any at all?

and how would i code a custom button to run a macro?

thanks

John Hart

Is it a matter of having one icon during one task and another icon the rest of the time (as per my ealier post)? Or would there other reasons / times for using this / similar method(s)?

Thanks

For those who see value in being able to change icons in a ribbon, I hope you will find various ways of going beyond this illustration, which is essentially a proof-of-concept post.