Posts Tagged ‘CommandBars’
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – connecting business logic to Office events
Ty Anderson | January 26th, 2012
On Tuesday we published Part 3 of the end-to-end demo. Today, we have Part 4. In reality parts 3 and 4 can be taken together but we thought it's better to break them up a bit and provide a bit of a break. But we have momentum now so let's keep this train a-moving because Part 5 is almost ready for its debut as well.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to navigate through the Microsoft Office Command Bar system
Andrei Smolin | January 16th, 2012
There are 4 instances of the command bar button "Save" (Id=3) in Excel. Two of them are best known: a button on the Standard commandbar and an item in the File menu. The other two instances are buried in the command bar system... Read the rest of this entry →
How to handle Outlook item’s Reply event: replying from a context-menu
Andrei Smolin | December 14th, 2011
Let's consider the case then the user replies to an Outlook e-mail from the context menu. First off, you can reply to one item only; that item is selected or right-clicked in an explorer window or is opened in an inspector window.... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create a custom event when Excel calculation mode changes
Andrei Smolin | December 5th, 2011
You should be aware that no such event exists. Let's create it. In Excel 2007 - 2010, you can change the calculation mode using the buttons shown in the screenshot below... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook and Word Toolbars mixed: problem and solution
Andrei Smolin | November 17th, 2011
Have you ever run into the issue when an Outlook toolbar created by your add-in shows up in Word? Or maybe, a Word toolbar gets displayed in Outlook? This article describes the issue and provides a workaround; the source code is supplied in VB.NET, C# and Delphi... Read the rest of this entry →
How to specify account for an outgoing Outlook message
Andrei Smolin | August 1st, 2011
How to specify account for an outgoing email message in Outlook 2000-2010?... Read the rest of this entry →
How to place ribbon tabs or controls before or after built-in Office controls
Pieter van der Westhuizen | March 22nd, 2011
In today's post I'll demonstrate how you can insert your own ribbon tabs (for Office 2007-2010) and controls (for Office 2000-2003) before or after Office's built-in tabs or controls. I'll also show you how you can add an existing built-in Office control to your own ribbon tab... Read the rest of this entry →
100% version neutrality for your Office extensions
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 13th, 2010
Finally, when you completed your add-in, there is no need to build separate setup programs for different versions of Office. Generating a setup program is as simple as right-clicking your project in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer and selecting Create Setup Project from the context menu... Read the rest of this entry →
Outlook context sensitivity
Pieter van der Westhuizen | December 1st, 2010
Add-in Express makes it possible to display your custom UI elements based on various Outlook components. Elements such as toolbars, toolbar controls, ribbon tabs, ribbon tab controls or Advanced Form Regions can be hidden or displayed based on what the user is doing in Outlook at any given moment... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Create an Office shared add-in – building the GUI
Ty Anderson | September 13th, 2010
I like to tinker with new technologies to see what they can do and how I could potentially use them in the solutions I build for my clients. A lot of the times my tinkering never leads to full understanding of the technology. In such cases, I don't blame myself nor my sometimes fickle love for the latest shiny bits... Read the rest of this entry →
Video: Add-in Express 2010 in-place GUI designers (on an example of Outlook add-in)
Ty Anderson | June 3rd, 2010
A key component of any Office add-in is the custom UI you develop for your users. And with Office, your add-in almost always requires a button or two in the Office menu or Ribbon. Add-in Express has long made it easy to build custom menus (aka CommandBars) and Ribbons... Read the rest of this entry →
