Excel VBA ribbon add-in as first tab - excel

Question

I made a custom ribbon addin following this article,
https://www.thespreadsheetguru.com/blog/step-by-step-instructions-create-first-excel-ribbon-vba-addin
It works perfectly but can I move the tab which I have made to be the second tab after the Start tab?

Answer 1

You can do what you wish to do but to do so will mean that you need to edit the CustomUI.Xml file which is located in the zip file that is an Office document.
If you are working in VBA then you will best be served by the CustomUI editor tool
https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-custom-ui-editor
This tool will extract the xml file from an Office document, allow you to edit and then save it back to the office document.
This is a good link to start reading up on Ribbon Xml.
https://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s2/win001.htm
The Xml below is from one of my CustomUI for Word. I think it does the same as you are asking in that I inserts the new tab to the left of the Past group on the Home Tab of the ribbon. It also replaces the Paragraph tab with a customised version.
<tab
idMso="TabHome">
<group
id = "Home.RegulatoryCMC"
label = "Regulatory CMC"
insertBeforeMso = "GroupClipboard"
visible="true">
<button
id = "Home.RegulatoryCMC.StartHere"
label = "Start Here"
onAction = "RibbonCallbacksForButtons.OnAction"
getSupertip = "RibbonCallbacksForSupertips.getSuperTip"/>
<button
id="Home.RegulatoryCMC.ShowStylePane"
label="Show Style Pane"
onAction="RibbonCallbacksForButtons.onAction"
getSupertip = "RibbonCallbacksForSupertips.getSuperTip"/>
<button
id="Home.RegulatoryCMC.ResetXML"
label="Reset XML"
onAction="RibbonCallbacksForButtons.onAction"
getSupertip = "RibbonCallbacksForSupertips.getSuperTip"/>
</group>
<group
idMso="GroupParagraph"
getVisible="RibbonCallbacksForVisibility.getVisible"/>
<box
id="Home.Paragraph.Status"
boxStyle="horizontal">
<buttonGroup
id="Home.Paragraph.Alignment">
<toggleButton idMso="AlignLeft"/>
<toggleButton idMso="AlignCenter"/>
<toggleButton idMso="AlignRight"/>
<toggleButton idMso="AlignJustify"/>
</buttonGroup>
<buttonGroup
id="Home.Paragraph.Marks"
visible="true">
<toggleButton idMso="ParagraphMarks"/>
</buttonGroup>
</box>
<box
id="ParagraphIndent"
boxStyle="horizontal">
<button idMso="IndentDecreaseWord"/>
<button idMso="IndentIncreaseWord"/>
</box>
<box
id = "ParagraphOther"
boxStyle="horizontal">
<gallery idMso="LineSpacingGallery"/>
<button idMso="SortDialogClassic"/>
</box>
<dialogBoxLauncher>
<button idMso="ParagraphDialog"/>
</dialogBoxLauncher>
</group>
</tab>