I am working with a custom ribbon in Excel (VBA + XML).
I was wondering if there is a control that would emulate the "Styles" functionality from the Home tab of Excel, that being a 2 rows x 3 columns gallery displayed directly in the ribbon, not by clicking a button.
Can anyone let me know if such a control exists and what is it called?
Thank you
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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 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)
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.
Excel 2010 :
1)
Excel Macro contains "Properties,View Code and CommandButton Object menus on right click.
2)
Same Excel Macro does not show "Properties,View Code and CommandButton Object menus on right click.
What is the reason,not showing menus.How to get this properties.I would have tried to changing excel properties.
There are two different kinds of controls possible in an Excel worksheet.
Both can be inserted via developer tab:
Your first one is an ActiveX control.
Your second one is an Form control.
See also: What is the difference between "Form Controls" and "ActiveX Control" in Excel 2010?
Could someone please explain to me the difference between the combo box that's available via the Developer Ribbon in Excel 2007 vs. the Combo Box control that's in the VBA editor? I cannot get this simple line of code to work using the Developer combo box:
MsgBox Combo1.Value
I've tied it to the change event and it seems to be syntactically correct (I'm not a VBA coder by any stretch).
Is the Developer Ribbon version some bastardized craptastic Microsoft shortcut?
What I'm trying to do is populate a second combo box based on the selection of the first combo box. I'd rather not build a case statement for every possible selection. Is this possible using the Developer ribbon version?
You are talking about the Insert button on the Developer tab correct? From that button you can add an ActiveX control or Form control. You're better off using the form controls if your new to programming as they will behave more in line with any Excel VBA reading you've done and the help file. With the Form controls you can right click and choose 'View Code' and/or 'Rename Control and Code'. Renaming the control allows you to address it in VBA however you like. e.g. - Combo1.value or myFavoriteCombo.value
That being said, to answer your question directly, be sure you know the controls full name. If you used a form control and it was the first one you put on the sheet it will be named ComboBox1. To get to the combobox's properties you have to walk through it's 'parent' sheet.
i.e.
MsgBox Sheet1.ComboBox1.value (using the sheet's code name)
or
MsgBox Worksheets("SheetName").ComboBox1.value (using the sheets name as it appears on the Excel tab)