Excel Customise Ribbon menu "Add-ins" tab empty - excel

I've noticed my Customise Ribbon menu in excel has an Add-ins tab that doesn't appear in excel, it also has no items in it. Does anyone know what this tab does/is suppose to do?
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I have working .xlam application that contains a custom ribbon. This works great but the menu items under my tab sometimes disappear. I would like to add an onAction to the main tab for the add-in in the ribbon's CustomUI.xml but Excel must see this as a syntax error in the .xml and doesn't load the ribbon.
Is there a way to get an OnAction to fire when the ribbon's tab is clicked?
The Office Fluent UI (Ribbon X) schema does not define/allow an onAction attribute for a tab control.
So, no, what is asked in the question is not allowed / not possible.

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Here is an interesting way of customizing the ribbon in excel (still works in Excel 2016) :
https://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s2/win001.htm
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You asked for adding a button in the "Home" tab, a workaround would be recreating "Home" tab in a personnal ribbon tab and adding your own button to it. Your personnal button could trigger a macro sub (VBA) or even use native Excel functionalities.
(I can help you further if you choose this way)

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I am in the process of creating a VBA add-in for Excel 2010, and I used the "Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office" tool to create my own ribbon.
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With menus, I know you can completely control them programmatically, but ribbons seem to work differently.
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