I am trying to add a new button under Fill color in Home tab in excel
I have tried adding my button by going to File > Option > Customize Ribbon but the options are disabled
I want to add my button in "Home" tab
Here is an interesting way of customizing the ribbon in excel (still works in Excel 2016) :
https://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s2/win001.htm
In brief, with the help of CustomUI you will modify part of the file archive in the way that you can remove actual tabs, add your own tab, and custom buttons inside of it
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)
Related
I have a macro-enabled excel workbook that has a custom menu with different buttons that work beautifully - used Custom-UI editor for this.
When I try to create a new Macro that runs and starts a custom menu with custom menu items, it does not want to work.
If I create a new macro-enabled workbook without a custom menu (iRibboncontrol items), then the menu code works.
Is there a way to have both the iRibboncontrol Custom Ribbon AND a custom menu? If so, please can someone assist?
Update
Figured out that Page Break Preview is the reason why my custom right-click menu breaks.
Any suggestions on how to get it working?
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?
screenshot attached
Whenever I add a custom Macro button to the Quick Access Toolbar , it is a generic Macro window invocation button. What I want is that if I click on the button, a specific Macro should directly start running. As of now there are 2-3 steps before I do that. First of all I click on the icon on the quick access toolbar , another small drop down shows up unnecessarily as shown here ( not sure why Add Ons is appearing here, I never added)
Secondly, if I click on the bigger Macros icon in the dropdown again , I get a dialog box where I have to choose macro from a list. I don't want to go through all this. As soon as I click on the button, a specific macro (I should be able to configure name of the macro) should start. I know there is a shortcut available for triggering a specific macro but I prefer a button.
If you don't want to configure QAT buttons manually you may consider developing a COM based add-in instead. See Walkthrough: Create your first VSTO Add-in for Outlook for more information.
To customize the ribbon UI you can use the designer provided by VSTO, see Walkthrough: Create a custom tab by using the Ribbon Designer.
I made an excel macro that retrieves data from other workbooks. I need to add a button to the Excel Ribbon for this Macro. The kicker: I need this button to go into a tab called "Special". This tab was part of an add-in and currently only contains one button. This "Special" Tab cannot be found in the customize ribbon area in the options tab.
Also, would it be better to turn my one macro into an add-in or should I just add the one macro to the ribbon.
Thank you all very much in advanced.
I have a custom tab in Excel (2013). On the tab, there is a menu that has multiple toggle buttons. It would be beneficial from a user standpoint that the menu would stay open until they are done with all their selections.
So I am looking for a way to keep the menu expanded after clicking any of the toggle buttons and the only way to close the menu is to click away from the menu. One thought that I had/looking for, is there any way through vba to expand a menu in the ribbon. So I would include that at the end of the sub-routine for each toggle button.