Hessel de Walle's Blog

In order to create you own nice looking tabs you need the Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office. You can download it for free. How is this different from choosing File , Options , Customize Ribbon and adding a new tab with new groups and then commands to the group? You can also move the new tab to any position. T hen your new tab is always there. Even when you don't open the specific file with the right VBA. In my example the outcome looks like this, a nice tab, placed in front of the Home Tab. You will only get this tab when you start the specific example (which you can download). The XML behind this: <customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui">    <ribbon startFromScratch="false">     <tabs>       <tab id="MaxIlze" label="Dossier Overzicht" insertBeforeMso="TabHome">         <group id="customGroup1" label="Adressen verrijken">         ...