It has been a long time since I posted a new build of RibbonCustomizer. My new job has been keeping me very busy. I just didn’t have time to work on the add-in. Things have settled down a bit and I fixed a bunch of bugs in the add-in.

You can get the latest beta build as usual from http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer/betaprogram.php

You can also look forward to new features in the not too distant future…

It has been a while since I released an new beta build of RibbonCustomizer. But, here is one

A lot of bug fixes went into this release, but the most notable change is the ability to pick your own icons. You can now use any Office 2007 icon for your macro buttons, or simply change the icon of any Office 2007 control you are using in your own group.

Download the new beta build.

P.S.: You cannot use your own custom icon in this build. I will provide that feature as well, but I wanted to just post this build as is, because it has been a while since there was a new build.

A developer can use Office 2007 icons in RibbonX via the imageMso attribute. To do so, she needs to only specify the idMso of the control which has the desired icon. Unfortunately, this is not as easy as it sounds, because any idMso available in any of the five ribbon applications (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word) can be used irrespective of the application. That means, an idMso from an Excel command can be used in Word as imageMso.

To make this easier, I created a unique imageMso list. This list was created by first finding all unique idMso’s across all ribbons (some 3,400 idMso’s), and then removing all the idMso’s that didn’t have their own icons, as well as all duplicates. The list differentiates between unique 16×16 and 32×32 icons, as well as unique pairs of 16×16 and 32×32 icons.

Download the imageMso list (Excel 2007 format).

Microsoft has made available to sets of aids for helping users find their way around the Office 2007 Ribbon. The first set are the Online command reference guides. These are Flash applications that will show you the 2003 UI, allow you to click on the command you are looking for, and then show you where to find that particular command in Office 2007. You can find them using the follow links. There is no guide for Access.

Excel: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx

Outlook: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102221621033.aspx

PowerPoint: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA101490761033.aspx

Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx

If you prefer a tabular form showing you where which 2003 command can be found in 2007, you can find buried in Help the links to the Ribbon mapping workbooks. Those Excel files are comprehensive and can be printed (they are not the smallest one either, the Word one is e.g. 3 MB):

Access: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC102128601033.aspx

Excel: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC102128621033.aspx

Outlook: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC102128631033.aspx

PowerPoint: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC102128641033.aspx

Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC102128591033.aspx

RibbonCustomizer has been using an icon from Microsoft Office (you might have recognized it as the icon used for Office button, Prepare). Not anymore! RibbonCustomizer has now its own logo and icons designed by Terberg Design.
Here is a preview of the logo:

Watch for the new logo and the icons on this website and upcoming beta versions soon!