Here's what you can customize on the Ribbon:. Rename the tabs: To rename, select a tab, like Home, Insert, Design in the Customize the Ribbon box, click Rename. Add new tab or new group: To add new tab or new group, click below the Customize the Ribbon box, and select New tab or New group.
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Remove tabs: You can remove custom tabs only from the Ribbon. To remove, select your tab in the Customize the Ribbon box and click. Customize the Quick Access Toolbar If you just want a few commands on your fingertips, you want to use the Quick Access Toolbar. Those are the icons that are above the Ribbon and they are always on no matter what tab you are on in the Ribbon. To customize the Quick Access Toolbar, open or create a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document.
On Windows, select File from the menu, click Options, and then pick Customize Ribbon. On Mac, select Word from the menu bar, pick Preferences, and choose Ribbon & Toolbar. Click the Ribbon button at the top of the window. Access the Quick Access Toolbar settings on Mac. In both Word and Excel, you can get to the Quick Access Toolbar basically the same way. 1) In Word, click Word from your menu and select Preferences. In Excel, click Excel from your menu and select Preferences. 2) When the pop-up window appears, click Ribbon & Toolbar.
Go to the app Preferences and click Quick Access Toolbar. On the Quick Access Toolbar tab window, select the commands and click the arrows to add or remove from the Customize Quick Access Toolbar box. Note: You cannot move the Home tab. Click Done. Hide tabs The following procedure hides a tab until you show it again. The tab stays hidden even when you close and reopen the application. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order.
On the tab, click. Click Done. Show hidden tabs. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences.
Under Customize, select the check box for the tab that you want to show. Show or hide groups on a tab Commands are organized in logical groups that are collected together under tabs. Some groups are hidden by default but you can unhide them. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences. Under Customize, do one of the following: To Do this Show groups Select the group check box, which is indented under the tab Hide groups Clear the group check box, which is indented under the tab Reset the ribbon tab order to default settings. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order.
Click Reset. Hide or show group titles in the ribbon Hiding group titles gives you more space to work with. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences. Under General, do one of the following: To Do this Hide group titles Select the Hide group titles check box. Show group titles Clear the Hide group titles check box. PowerPoint Do any of the following: Rearrange tabs. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order.
Drag the tab to where you want it. Note: You cannot move the Home tab. Click Done. Hide tabs The following procedure hides a tab until you show it again. The tab stays hidden even when you close and reopen the application.
On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order. On the tab, click.
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Click Done. Show hidden tabs. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences. Under Customize, select the check box for the tab that you want to show. Reset the ribbon tab order to default settings. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order.
Click Reset. Hide or show group titles in the ribbon Hiding group titles gives you more space to work with.
On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences. Under General, do one of the following: To Do this Hide group titles Select the Hide group titles check box. Show group titles Clear the Hide group titles check box. Excel Do any of the following: Rearrange tabs. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order. Drag the tab to where you want it.
Note: You cannot move the Home tab. Click Done. Hide tabs The following procedure hides a tab until you show it again.
The tab stays hidden even when you close and reopen the application. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order. On the tab, click. Click Done. Show hidden tabs.
On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences. Under Customize, select the check box for the tab that you want to show. Reset the ribbon tab order to default settings. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Customize Ribbon Tab Order. Click Reset.
Hide or show group titles in the ribbon Hiding group titles gives you more space to work with. On the right side of the ribbon, click, and then click Ribbon Preferences. Under General, do one of the following: To Do this Hide group titles Select the Hide group titles check box. Show group titles Clear the Hide group titles check box. Customize toolbars and menus Show or hide a toolbar. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click the toolbar that you want to show or hide.
Notes:. Currently visible toolbars have a check mark next to the toolbar name. When you open an Office application, the same toolbars appear that were visible the last time that you used the application. If the buttons on the Standard toolbar are not visible, click located on the far right of the toolbar. If you are using Office on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), this button does not appear on the Standard toolbar.
Dock or float a toolbar You can dock some toolbars directly under the Standard toolbar. If a toolbar is 'floating' (not docked), you can position it where you want it on the screen. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Customize Toolbars and Menus. Click the Toolbars and Menus tab.
The Show column indicates the toolbars that are currently visible. Under Dock, select or clear the check box for the toolbar that you want. Notes:. If a toolbar does not have a Dock check box, it cannot be docked under the Standard toolbar.
However, you can manually drag any floating toolbar up to the Menu bar to dock it there. The Standard toolbar, if it shows, must be docked. Add or remove buttons or commands from a toolbar or the menu bar. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Customize Toolbars and Menus. Click the Toolbars and Menus tab. Select the Show check box for the toolbar that you want to change. Click the Commands tab.
Under Categories, click a category. Do one of the following: To Do this Add a command to a toolbar or the menu bar Under Commands, drag a command from the Commands list to where you want to add it to the toolbar or the menu bar. Remove a command from a toolbar or the menu bar On the toolbar or the menu bar, drag the command off the toolbar. Customize the name or appearance of a menu command or a toolbar button.
On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Customize Toolbars and Menus. Click the Toolbars and Menus tab. Under Show, select the check box for the toolbar that contains the button or menu command that you want to change. Under Dock, clear the check box for the toolbar that contains the button or menu command that you want to change.
Change the Ribbon in Mac Excel 2016 Note: Update Mac Office 2016 first and be sure it is 15.17 or higher, in the 15.17 update Ribbon customization via Ribbon XML is enabled by default for all customers. Note: If you are a Excel for Windows user start here: Things we must do and understand before we start Important: The easiest way to insert RibbonX in a Excel file is to do it on a Windows machine. I suggest that if you want to develop custom Ribbons you develop in Windows and then test it on the Mac. Note:The information below assume you develop on a Windows machine If you want to insert RibbonX into a Excel workbook to change the Ribbon, then I suggest you download and install the free Custom UI Editor to make this a lot easier: Note: If the link is broken you can also the Custom UI Editor from my site. The Custum UI Editor gives you an option to insert a customUI.xml file in your Excel workbook that loads when you open the file in Excel 2007-2016 and/or a customUI14.xml file that only loads when you open the Excel workbook in Excel 2010-2016.
What, files that are inside a Excel file? Excel 2007-2016 files are really zip files so if you change the extension to zip and open the file in your zip program you see that there are a few folders and a file inside the zip. Thanks to the Custom UI Editor we not have to do all this to add or edit the customUI.xml or CustomUI14.xml file inside your Excel file. Note: You see that Excel 2010-2016 use the same file named customUI14.xml When you not work with things that are added in Excel 2010-2016 (like Backstage View for example in Excel for windows), then you can only use the Office 2007 Custom UI Part option to add your RibbonX, it will load the RibbonX from this file when you open the Excel file in Excel 2007-2016. But if you open the Excel file in Excel 2010-2016 and there is also a customUI14.xml file it will load only this file. Note: It is not possible to insert RibbonX into Excel 97-2003(xls) files. Open the Custom UI Editor You see that there are 5 menu buttons on the toolbar menu in the UI editor.
Open: Open the Excel file that you want to edit (change the Ribbon for this file) Save: Save the RibbonX in the file that you have open in the UI editor (not possible to save when the file is open in Excel) Insert Icons: Insert your own icons in the file (icons will be saved in the file) Validate: Validate your RibbonX so you are sure that there are no typos Generate Callbacks: This will create macros(callbacks) for each onAction you have in the RibbonX. Select all callbacks and copy them in a normal module in your workbook. When you open a Excel file in the Custom UI Editor you can right click on the file name and choose: Office 2007 Custom UI Part Or use Office 2010 Custom UI Part Or you can use the Insert menu to choose one of the two options.
It creates the customUI14.xml file if you choose Office 2010 Custom UI Part and the customUI.xml file if you choose Office 2007 Custom UI Part. After you choose one option or both, you can enter or paste your RibbonX in the right window. Note: the button caption ' Office 2010 Custom UI Part' is no longer correct since Office 2013 has been released. It should now be named ' Office 2010-2016 Custom UI Part' but I do not think they will update the editor for this. Let's make an Example for Excel 2007-2016 (Win and Mac) In this basic example we add RibbonX to a file that create two buttons in a new group named My Group on the Home tab when you open your file in Excel 2007-2016. Because we not use something new for 2010-2016 we only have to add the RibbonX to the customUI.xml file ('Office 2007 Custom UI Part'). 1: Open a new workbook and save it as Book1.xlsm (Excel Macro-Enabled workbook) 2: Close the workbook 3: Open Book1.xlsm in the Custom UI Editor 4: Right click on the File name in the Custom UI Editor or use the Insert menu 5: Choose 'Office 2007 Custom UI Part' to create the customUI.xml file 6: Copy/Paste the RibbonX below in the right window, the best thing is to copy it in notepad first and the in the Custom UI Editor so it indent correct and it is easy to read.